5.5 x 8.5 in book templates
Novels, memoirs and devotionals. A popular, comfortable size. Free templates with the bleed, margins and safe area already set, so your files are ready to print.
Word template
Page size (5.75 x 8.75 in with bleed), mirrored margins, chapter styles and page numbers, ready for your manuscript.
Download for Word (.docx)Inside pages guide
A PDF with the trim, bleed and safe area marked. Place it on a guide layer in InDesign, Affinity Publisher or Canva.
Download the PDFCover template
Your cover is one wide file: back, spine and front. The spine depends on your page count.
Count every page in your interior file, blanks included. If your page count changes, download a new cover template: the spine changes too.
The numbers for a 5.5 x 8.5 in book
- Page size with bleed
- 5.75 x 8.75 in
- Bleed
- 0.125 in on every edge
- Safe area
- at least 0.25 in inside the trim
- Inside margin
- about 0.625 in toward the spine
- Full-page art at 300 DPI
- 1,725 x 2,625 px
Start your 5.5 x 8.5 in book · we check every page when you upload.