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Today I’m talking about ebook formatting: something I used to do a lot in my early twenties during the early indie‑publishing era!

Back then, I formatted all my own ebooks and even designed most of my covers, mostly because I was on a very tight budget and had to DIY everything.

Recently, I started looking around again for tools that might help with formatting my poetry collection.

I initially loved Reedsy. It’s clean, intuitive, and great for prose.

But I hit a snag when I realised it doesn’t handle poetry indentation or spacing very well. This is a known limitation in their community, so hopefully they’ll improve those features in the future.

After that, I came across Kindle Create, which I’m going to try next. As far as I know, it’s free to use at the moment, and it seems to preserve poetic structure better.

A writing friend also recommended Atticus, and I’ve always admired how pretty Vellum’s ebook output looks, though Vellum is Mac‑only. Both are on my radar if I decide to upgrade later.

I’ll be honest: I find ebook formatting incredibly tedious (that’s my Aries Rising speaking…) but my full manuscript is only about eight thousand words, which is much shorter than a full‑length novel. So I really can’t complain.

That’s today’s update: exploring tools, navigating limitations, and slowly getting this dragon poetry ebook into shape.