How do I download or print my book (PDF)?

Open the book from Your Library, press the ⋮ menu button at the top right, and pick one of the two download options:

  1. Download PDF for Tablet or Computer, for any tablet, desktop, or laptop (page size equivalent to 6" × 8").
  2. Download PDF for Phone, a smaller, narrower page size for reading on your phone (equivalent to 2.7" × 5.85").

Both options produce a proper PDF file. The PDF keeps a fixed page layout that looks identical everywhere, which makes it the right pick for printing or for opening anywhere with no extra app. For a Kindle, Apple Books, Kobo, or another e-reader or phone app, download the EPUB instead — it reflows to the screen and lets the device set the font size and page color. The EPUB button sits in the same ⋮ menu. See How do I open my book on any device?.

Please do not use your browser's "Save Page As" to save the reader page — that saves a copy of the webpage and its JavaScript, not the book, and you'll see errors like Loading chunk X failed or .js files in your downloads folder. Always use the Download PDF button inside the menu.

Trouble downloading on mobile? Samsung Internet, older Android builds, and some Kindle Fire browsers occasionally block the download without showing an error.

  • Try Chrome (Android) or Safari (iPad, iPhone) instead. The download works reliably in both.
  • If the button seems to do nothing, check your device's Downloads folder anyway — the file is sometimes there even when the browser shows no confirmation.
  • Still stuck? Contact us with the book URL and the device and browser you're on, and we'll send the PDF directly.

Want to print it? The downloaded PDF is yours, so you can print it at home or take it to a copy shop. Use the Download PDF for Tablet or Computer version. Its pages are book-sized (6" × 8") and the cover comes out as the first page.

Because those pages are smaller than normal letter paper, printers tend to enlarge them to fill the sheet. That makes the text bigger than it needs to be and uses more paper. To avoid it, choose Actual size (sometimes called 100%) in the print window instead of Fit to page. Print a couple of pages first and see which you prefer.

Getting it printed and bound

A copy shop can print and bind it straight from the file. Two things are worth asking for. First, print at actual size, for the reason above; if you want it to feel like a real book rather than a stack of letter paper, ask whether they can also cut the pages down to that smaller size. Second, ask for a little extra room along the edge that gets bound, because the margins in the file are narrow and the words closest to that edge can be hard to read once it's held together.

Self-publishing sites like Lulu are a different thing and won't work here. They only accept books built to their own set page sizes, so they'll turn this file away. A service that simply prints and binds a PDF for you is the one to look for.

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