In order to help you determine what size and page count your book might be best in, Picky Press offers this exclusive Word-to-Book Pages Estimator tool designed to match the number of words in your manuscript to the format for our book templates in the various trim sizes we offer. (Binding type, such as paperback or hardcover is irrelevant to number of pages.) This estimator works with five different popular fonts at 11-12 point sizes and single (1.0)-1.5 line spacing. All of these factors greatly affect the page count of a book. Depending on your program or operating system, you should have these fonts.
Most word processing programs have a function to count the number of words in a document, or highlight all your text, copy and paste into our Word Count Calculator above. To estimate the number of pages in your book’s main body, enter the word count in the “Number of Words in Document” field. Four mandatory pages are added to the count automatically. If your book has extra white space, pictures and charts, or other additional pages such as a Table of Contents or Index, these must be added to the total page count. If the result is an odd number, round it to the next even number, since pages have two sides and there can never be an odd number of pages.
Every book is different, so this estimator will not be 100% accurate, but it is still a very helpful guide. Used in conjunction with the Print Book Cost Calculator below, it can give you a very good idea of how much a single book copy will cost to make in various formats (not including shipping and handling charges).