What visuals and illustrations do books include?

Books include tables, charts, timelines, decision trees, and other figures, plus a unique AI-generated cover illustration. Most books also get AI illustrations inside the chapters, wherever a picture of a real thing helps, such as a plant, a historical site, a machine, or a technique. Books don't include photos, screenshots, or precise technical diagrams.

What books include

TailoredRead books can include:

  • AI illustrations show real things the book teaches about, often with labels that name their parts. Books on wholly abstract topics, such as software, finance, or business strategy, usually get none.
  • Tables hold comparisons, do-and-don't lists, and reference data.
  • Bar charts compare simple magnitudes.
  • Timelines lay out a sequence of events or phases.
  • Step-by-step lists and checklists walk through a procedure you can follow or tick off.
  • Decision trees give if-this-then-that guidance.
  • 2x2 matrices and pyramids present frameworks and hierarchies.
  • Quizzes ask self-check questions with answers.
  • Callouts pull key points, warnings, examples, and definitions out of the flow of the text.

AI illustrations

The AI decides which chapters a picture would actually help, so the number varies by subject. A longer book can get more: up to about one picture every 15 pages, and at most three in a chapter. A book on an abstract topic usually gets none. Before you buy, the review step shows an Illustrations tile when your book is expected to include them.

Each picture is drawn in a clean illustration style with a caption. Labels in the picture are written in the book's language.

What books don't include

  • Photographs of people, places, objects, or finished work.
  • Step-by-step pictures and screenshots, such as craft techniques, stitch or pattern diagrams, or software menus.
  • Precise technical and scientific figures, such as geometric figures, graphs of functions, circuit diagrams, maps, or anything that depends on exact measurements or numbers.

Visual and hands-on topics

For skills that are usually taught with step-by-step pictures, such as crafts, photography, design, or software, the book describes each technique and step in words, with tables and checklists where they help.

For math, physics, and engineering, figures are explained in words and equations instead. Equations are written as formatted text with subscripts, superscripts, and math symbols. They aren't currently typeset with LaTeX, so complex expressions such as fractions or stacked indices appear on a single line.

Good to know

Illustrations, tables, and charts appear in every format: reading online, PDF, EPUB, and Kindle. With the Commercial or Author license, they also come through in the Word download, with tables as editable Word tables.

The AI draws each picture and checks it before it goes in the book, and redraws it if something looks wrong. Pictures can still get small details wrong, such as the exact shape of a part. Treat them as illustrations, not as reference diagrams. The same goes for the numbers in a chart: double-check any number before you rely on it.

The AI text occasionally refers to a photo or screenshot that was never added. If your book mentions one and it isn't there, that's the AI forgetting its own format, not a missing upload.

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