From manuscript to EPUB 3
Your manuscript,
faithfully made digital.
Abook is loose pages until someone binds it — slowly, precisely, with reverence for the text. Textbound does that work for the digital age: we take your manuscript and produce a clean, standards-compliant EPUB 3, with footnotes linked, structure intact, and original languages set correctly. We show our work, flag what we’re unsure about, and never invent what your source doesn’t have.
Free during our testing period. Word, HTML, EPUB, Rich Text, Markdown, and plain-text manuscripts up to 50 MB.
How it works
Upload
Send us your manuscript — Word, HTML, EPUB, Rich Text, Markdown, or plain text. We read it in full — word count, footnotes, scripts, structure — before anything else happens.
An honest quote
You see the math: words × rate × source factor, with any surcharges as labeled lines. The final charge never differs from the quote. During testing, the amount due is $0.
Conversion
We structure chapters, link every footnote, tag Scripture references, and set Hebrew and Greek correctly. Progress narrates the real stages of the work — never a made-up percentage.
A validated EPUB, with proof
Your book arrives as an EPUB 3 checked with EPUBCheck, beside a quality report that says exactly what we did and what deserves a second look.
What we preserve
A conversion is faithful or it is worthless. These are the things that most often break in careless hands — we treat them as load-bearing.
- Footnotes
…as the earliest witnesses attest.214
Every note linked both ways — text to note, note back to text.
- Scripture references
John 1:1; cf. Genesis 1:1–3
Tagged and consistent, ready for the Logos self-publishing pipeline.
- Hebrew
בְּרֵאשִׁית
Pointed text intact, right-to-left, every vowel and accent where the author put it.
- Greek
Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος
Polytonic breathings and accents, exactly as written.
- Tables
Real tables, real cells
Kept as structured markup a reader can reflow — never flattened into screenshots.
- Navigation
Contents · Chapter one · Notes
A working table of contents that mirrors your actual structure, not a guess at it.
We tell you what we’re unsure about
Confidence, measured
Every conversion carries a confidence score for the whole document and for each uncertain block. You see the same numbers we do.
Flags, not silence
When a heading is inferred from bold formatting rather than a proper style, we say so — and we point to the paragraph in your source where it happened.
Nothing fabricated
A reflowable manuscript has no print pagination, so we won’t invent page numbers. When your source carries real page markers — as many EPUBs do — we keep them; otherwise the page list stays honest at zero, and the report says why that’s the right call.
Free while we test
Textbound is in a testing period. You’ll see your full quote — the same math paying customers will see — and the amount due is $0. If you’d rather look before you leap, send us your book and read the first chapter converted, free, in any reader.