Short read.

Using Google Docs To Publish On Kindle.

A quick guide to page setting and line spacing.

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The Kindle book creator doesn’t work for me so I have been using both google docs and slides to try to format my book with many issues getting the margins and spacing correct.

Uploading as a doc file saved from google docs worked better than pdf, though I have found pdf works well if you’re using slides. Slides are good for shorter books.

To curb the frustration while getting this published, I will document my small successes along the way here on Medium. Also, I will probably need somewhere to look when this works out and I can't remember how.

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To provide some scope, my book includes images, is 11,500 words, and just under 1800 pages. I’m no expert so I want to help others who may be learning as they go too. (Please excuse the added inexpertise in the screenshots.)

Here are some guidelines for formatting that are working to date:

1. Update title, heading, subheading, and normal text formatting in the styles dropdown menu on the toolbar.