--- title: "Free tools for writing and publishing a book" description: "Free calculators for novelists: spine width, word count to page count, KDP and Kindle royalties, trim sizes, ISBNs, reading time and writing pace. No sign-up, nothing uploaded." source: https://usegalley.com/resources --- # Free tools for *making a book* Spine widths, page counts, royalties, trim sizes, and the reference pages you would otherwise need to keep searching for. I built these because I kept needing them while writing, and because I HATED submitting my email address into other free online tools. Treat these as information rather than rules, because publishers and platforms might have specific asks for themselves. ## Calculators and *checkers* ### Submission and manuscript What an agent or an editor expects the file to look like before they open it. [**Shunn format generator** Paste your text or open a.docx. Get a submission-ready manuscript back.](https://usegalley.com/resources/shunn-manuscript-format-generator)[**Query letter formatter** Your paragraphs, assembled in the order an agent reads them.](https://usegalley.com/resources/query-letter-formatter) ### Print and paper What comes in between a finished manuscript and a printed book. [**Spine width calculator** Page count and paper stock in, spine width and full wrap cover size out.](https://usegalley.com/resources/book-spine-width-calculator)[**Words to printed pages** How many printed pages your word count actually becomes, at your trim and type size.](https://usegalley.com/resources/word-count-to-page-count)[**Trim size comparison** Every common trim at true scale, with your page count in each.](https://usegalley.com/resources/book-trim-size-comparison)[**Cover template generator** A print-ready PDF wrap, with the folds and the bleed already drawn.](https://usegalley.com/resources/book-cover-template-generator) ### Ebook and Kindle What your book earns, and what Amazon takes out of it. [**Kindle royalty calculator** What a Kindle sale pays after the per megabyte delivery fee, at 70% and at 35%.](https://usegalley.com/resources/kindle-ebook-royalty-calculator)[**Kindle Unlimited earnings** What a full read-through pays in KU, and how many borrows equal a sale.](https://usegalley.com/resources/kindle-unlimited-kenp-calculator) ### Money and metadata The paperwork that sits between the file and the storefront. [**KDP royalty calculator** Print cost, royalty per copy, and the minimum list price KDP will accept.](https://usegalley.com/resources/kdp-royalty-calculator)[**Amazon description formatter** Formatted description in, KDP-legal HTML out, counted against the 4,000 character limit.](https://usegalley.com/resources/amazon-book-description-formatter)[**ISBN checker** Validate an ISBN, convert between the 10 and 13 digit forms.](https://usegalley.com/resources/isbn-checker)[**ISBN barcode generator** Your ISBN as a scannable EAN-13, with the price add-on, at print size.](https://usegalley.com/resources/isbn-barcode-generator)[**Copyright page generator** The whole copyright page, in the order printers expect it.](https://usegalley.com/resources/copyright-page-generator)[**Front and back matter** Everything before and after the story, in the right order, for print or ebook.](https://usegalley.com/resources/front-and-back-matter-checklist) ### Words and time How long a book is, how long it takes to read, how long it takes to write. [**Reading time calculator** Silent reading, reading aloud, and finished audiobook hours from one word count.](https://usegalley.com/resources/reading-time-calculator)[**Word count by genre** The expected range for your genre, and where your manuscript sits in it.](https://usegalley.com/resources/novel-word-count-by-genre)[**Writing pace calculator** A daily word count for your deadline, and what missing a week actually costs.](https://usegalley.com/resources/writing-pace-calculator) ### Style and punctuation The style decisions you make when writing. [**Readability checker** Reading ease, sentence lengths, adverbs and repeats, for one chapter.](https://usegalley.com/resources/prose-readability-checker) ## Cheat *sheets* Quick references on common topics. ### Submission and manuscript What an agent or an editor expects the file to look like before they open it. [**Standard manuscript format** Shunn format in full, plus the checklist to run before you send it.](https://usegalley.com/resources/standard-manuscript-format) ### Style and punctuation The style decisions you make when writing. [**Dialogue punctuation** Comma or full stop before the tag, interruptions, action beats, quotes.](https://usegalley.com/resources/dialogue-punctuation-rules)[**Dashes and hyphens** Common types of dashes, hyphens, and some spacing comments.](https://usegalley.com/resources/dashes-hyphens-and-ellipses)[**UK vs US style** Quote marks, punctuation placement, spelling families, dates.](https://usegalley.com/resources/uk-vs-us-style) ### Pages and proofs What the parts of a page are called, and what each mark means. [**Anatomy of a book page** Recto, folio, gutter, running head, widow. Every part of the page, named.](https://usegalley.com/resources/anatomy-of-a-book-page)[**Proofreading marks** What the marks on a paper proof are asking you to do, one table.](https://usegalley.com/resources/proofreading-marks) ## What these *will not* do None of them reads your manuscript. Nothing is uploaded, so nothing can be. The tools that would need your actual file, like an EPUB validator or an overused word check, live inside [the app](https://usegalley.com/features/revision) where the book already is. Printer rates and store royalties change without notice. Each page carries the date I last checked it and a link to the official source. Where a printer does not publish a figure, the page says so and stops. If you find one that has gone stale, [tell me](mailto:hi@usegalley.com). For the words you need to know, the [publishing glossary](https://usegalley.com/glossary) defines things these pages use, the [documentation](https://usegalley.com/docs) covers how Galley does each of these jobs with your real book, and the [blog](https://usegalley.com/blog) is where the longer explanations live. Ready to write your novel? [Launch Galley](https://app.usegalley.com)