Manuscript Formatting

Your manuscript,
set in type.

BindKit formats your book for print, EPUB, and MOBI — with typographer-quality drop caps, running heads, and print-perfect margins. Web-based. Not Mac-only.

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ELARA VOSS

The letter had arrived at dawn. It bore no stamp, no return address—only her name in handwriting she had spent years trying to forget.

She folded it without reading past the first line. Some knowledge, she had learned, could not be unlearned.

✦ ✦ ✦

Meridian kept her appointments. She taught three lessons before noon, ate alone at the bakery on Crenshaw, walked home by the long route. At half past four she unlocked her door and found the second letter.

This one she did read. Twice. Then she set it aside, filled the kettle, and waited for the water to boil in the precise and ancient way of people who have decided not to panic quite yet.

THE GLASS MERIDIAN

Chapter Two

The Weight of
Kept Promises

The morning arrived without ceremony, and with it the cold particular to November in high places. Dusk had barely thinned before Meridian rose, pulling the blanket from her shoulders with the practiced quiet of a woman who had long since stopped expecting good dreams.

The village was stirring below. She could hear the market vendors claiming their corners of the square, the creak of wooden carts, the murmur of early conversation carrying up through the cold.

Also works with:

Amazon KDP Print

IngramSpark

Pothi.com

Draft2Digital

Smashwords

Apple Books

The problem

Word is a word processor.
Not a book formatter.

Every author knows the cycle: you finish writing. You open Word. You spend four hours fighting margins that won't stay set, headers that override each other, and a table of contents that insists on reading Error! Reference source not found.

Then you discover Vellum is $249 and Mac-only. You're on Windows. Atticus is $147, but your trim size isn't there. And nothing handles the Devanagari script in your regional language novel.

BindKit was built for this exact frustration.

CHAPTER ONE
■ Heading 1 overridden
The morning arrived without...
ceremony. Dusk had barely...
■ Page break conflict
thinned before Meridian...
■ Section break deleted
rose, pulling the blanket...
Manuscript.docx (47).FINAL_v2_EDITED_jc2.docx

Heading 1: Calibri 11pt (Normal)

Style corrupted on paste

Error! Bookmark not defined.

Table of contents, p. 3

Page numbers: 1, 1, 1, 2, 1…

Section numbering restarted

Track Changes: ON

47 unresolved conflicts

The editor

Your manuscript. Beautifully set.

The Glass Meridian — BindKit

Chapters

IThe First Letter

IIThe Weight of Kept…

IIIWhat the Village Knew

IVMeridian's Winter

VThe Second Reckoning

Chapter Style

Classic Serif

▸ 18 styles available

THE GLASS MERIDIAN

Chapter Two

The Weight of
Kept Promises

The village was stirring below. She could hear the market vendors claiming their corners, the low creak of wooden carts, the murmur of early conversation. Someone was frying onions. Somewhere, a child was crying with the lazy conviction of someone who expects comfort shortly.

✦ ✦ ✦

The letter had arrived at dawn. It bore no stamp, no return address—only her name in handwriting she had spent years learning to forget, and had not quite managed.

Export

EPUB 3

Retailers, readers

MOBI/KFX

Kindle direct

PDF Print

5×8, bleed marks

PDF Screen

No bleed, RGB

DOCX

Track changes clean

Export all formats

Trim size

5 × 8 in

▸ Change trim

Features

What a typesetter knows.
Built into software.

Drop caps & ornaments

Chapter-opening drop caps, section break ornaments, and custom first-line treatments. The things that make a book feel like a book.

Running heads

Author name on left pages, book title on right — automatically. Or set your own. Exactly as a typesetter would lay it out.

20+ print trim sizes

From 5×8 pocket to 8.5×11 textbook. Includes Indian standard sizes. Margins calculated to the point by our typesetting engine.

Export everywhere

EPUB 3, MOBI/KFX, print-ready PDF with bleed marks, screen PDF, and clean DOCX. One click. All at once.

Regional language support

Format books in Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, and Kannada. Correct script rendering for Indian publishing.

18 chapter styles

From plain minimal to ornate Victorian. Preview every style on your actual manuscript before committing.

Honest comparison

Why switch to BindKit

Feature	Vellum	Atticus	BindKit
Platform	Mac only	Web	Web
Price	$249 one-time	$147 one-time	$9/mo or $19/book
Drop caps	✓	Basic	✓
Custom fonts	✓	✗	✓
Running heads	✓	✓	✓
Print trim sizes	6	8	20+ incl. Indian
Regional languages	✗	✗	✓
Real-time preview	✗	✓	✓
EPUB 3 compliance	✓	✓	✓

Vellum pricing correct as of 2025. BindKit India pricing: ₹599/mo or ₹1,499/book — set per India market rates.

"I spent two weeks formatting my novel in Word. BindKit did it in forty minutes. I cried a little."

— Priya S., author of The Seventh Window

Pricing

Format one book. Or all of them.

Vellum is $249 one-time, Mac-only.
We're $9/month, every OS.

Per Book

$19one-time

All formats. No subscription.

✓EPUB, MOBI, PDF (print + screen)
✓All trim sizes
✓Chapter styles & drop caps
✓30-day revision window

Your manuscript,set in type.