Karde takes your manuscript from a working draft to a book you can hand to a reader, an agent, or a printer.
When the writing is done, Karde renders the book as a reader will see it, breaks it down chapter by chapter, and exports the manuscript clean, so the moment you press send you know exactly what you are sending.
Free · See it as a book
The moment your book stops being pages on a screen and starts being a book. Karde renders your manuscript as a reader will see it, chapter by chapter, page by page, so you can hold the whole thing in your hands before anyone else does.
Free · Inside the book
Front, spine and back. Upload your cover art and Karde places it at the head and tail of the book, so the Preview opens the way a reader will meet it.
Every chapter rendered with its title page, its number and the flow of a real book. Jump between them, or read the whole thing straight through.
Dedication, epigraph, acknowledgements, author bio, colophon. Every page a reader turns before and after the story, held in the order they belong.
Free · The Cover
Upload the artwork you want on the outside of the book. Front cover, spine, back cover. Karde takes the files, sets them at the head and tail of the manuscript, and shows the whole thing in the Preview so you can hold the book the way a reader will hold it.
Swap the artwork whenever the design changes. The Preview updates the moment you re-upload.
Free · The margins
Top, bottom, inside, outside. Pull the margins wider for air, or tighter to fit more on the page. Karde redraws the Preview the moment you move a value, so you can see how the book will breathe before a reader ever holds it.
Free · Typography and page
Typeface, type size, line spacing, paragraph spacing, first-line indent, margins on all four sides, running headers, page numbers. Set them once, and the whole book redraws to match. The look of the finished book, held together with the manuscript.
Free · Export
Whatever comes after Karde: your agent's inbox, a print-on-demand upload, a Kindle. Export the book in the format that fits, ready to send.