How to show your book

This is the most common mistake. Upload one page per photo, in reading order, and we’ll pair them into spreads.

If you photograph the book lying open, each photo already shows two pages. We’d pair those again, and you’d get four pages across the screen with the fold in the wrong place.

The cover is page 1 and shows on its own, like a real book. So the first spread is pages 2 and 3, just as in print.

It’s a preview, not the whole book: enough for readers to see the paper, the printing and the pacing, and still want a copy.

A cover, a contents page, two or three spreads and a colophon is usually plenty.

The flipbook needs the page shape to lay pages side by side. Without it, a square zine could end up squashed into an A4 shape.

Height first, then width (A5 is 210 × 148). If your cover is bigger than the inside pages, like a card cover or a jacket, enter the inside size in the second pair of boxes. If everything’s the same size, leave them blank.

For example “Front cover”, “Contents” or “Colophon”. Type it in the box under each photo and it appears under the spread.

It’s worth doing. Without names, the caption just says “Pages 4–5”.

In your dashboard, open the book and find How it is shown. Pick the flipbook, or leave it as a gallery.

Not every book suits a flipbook. A folded broadsheet, a concertina or a box of loose cards has no pages to turn, and a flipbook would misrepresent it. Use a gallery for those. Gallery is the default.