How it works
One editor. Archive in, book out.
StackPress turns a newsletter or blog archive into a book. There is no step wizard. The archive sits on the left, the pages in the middle, the design controls on the right.
Free and open source. A short walkthrough runs the first time.
01
Paste a URL
Give the editor a publication address. It finds the feed and loads the archive. A single article URL works too.
- Substack, including custom domains
- Ghost and Beehiiv
- Medium. Its feed only exposes roughly the 10 most recent posts.
- Any site with an RSS or Atom feed
- Add more publications to combine them in one book
02
Pick the chapters
The left pane holds the archive. Find the posts worth keeping, then switch to the Outline tab and drag them into reading order.
- Search by title
- Filter by year and by tag
- A "Latest 10" shortcut
- Outline tab for drag-to-reorder
03
Design the book
The center shows real pages: the cover, the contents, and the opening pages of a chapter. The right pane has four tabs of controls. Change one and the preview updates.
- Book: title, front and back matter, trim size
- Cover: template, image, colors, type
- Pages: margins, text, chapter openers, page numbers
- Print: binding and a preflight checklist
04
Export
Pick a format. The file is built in your browser and saved to your device. No account needed.
- PDF for screens and home printing
- EPUB for e-readers
- A print package for print on demand
The draft autosaves in your browser as you work. LinkedIn newsletters do not work. They have no public feed. Paywalled posts cannot be fetched and get a placeholder page.
What you can change.
Every control is open to everyone. Nothing is held back.
Cover
Eight templates: Classic, Minimal, Editorial, Literary, Manuscript, Bold, Zine, Mosaic. Use an image from the archive or upload one. Swap the palette, typefaces, symbol, and pattern. Drag any element to move it.
Text
Margins and line spacing. Left-aligned or justified. Spaced or indented paragraphs. Drop caps. Mirrored margins for facing pages.
Chapters
Three openers: simple, centered, banner. Numbering as 01, roman numerals, or "Chapter 1". Twelve optional chapter icons. Two columns on any chapter. Optional full-page chapter images.
Navigation
Page numbers in three positions, or off. Running headers. A table of contents with page numbers.
Front and back matter
Title page, copyright page, dedication, about the author. Leave one blank to skip it.
Fonts
Times, Helvetica, and Courier are built in. Seven more text faces come with it, including Garamond, Baskerville, and Lora.
Trim sizes
US Trade, A5, US Letter, A4. US Trade is 6 x 9 in.
Cleanup
Subscribe pitches and footers that repeat across articles are stripped automatically. A toggle turns that off.
Print on demand
The print package.
Three files, built to Lulu’s print-on-demand specifications: an interior PDF, a one-piece wraparound cover PDF, and a spec sheet. A preflight checklist flags problems before you export.
You upload the files to Lulu yourself. There is no in-app ordering. StackPress is not affiliated with Lulu.
- Interior PDF
- At trim size, even page count
- Cover PDF
- One piece: back, spine, front
- Safety margin
- 0.5 in on every edge
- Gutter
- Sized to the page count
- Bleed
- 0.125 in on the cover
- Spine
- Width calculated from the page count
- Binding
- Paperback or Hardcover
- Spec sheet
- Included with the two PDFs
What it costs.
Nothing. Every cover, every layout control, PDF, EPUB, and the print package. No plans, no watermark, no limit on books.
An account is optional. Sign in and your books save to a library you can open from any device.
The code is open under the MIT license.
Where your content goes.
The book file is generated in your browser. It is never uploaded.
Our server does fetch the feeds, article pages, and images for you, because a browser cannot. It does not store article content.
Exports are not logged. If you sign in, the book you are working on is saved to your library so you can open it later.
Books made from writing you do not own are for personal reading only. Print and distribute only what you own or have permission for.