Books

On laying out and designing books — plus an overview of the works I have prepared for print.

20 posts in this category.

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17 October 2026

EPUB e-books: what layout means for e-readers

Your print file is ready and now you want an e-book too? Why a PDF is not an e-book, what changes in EPUB, the most common mistakes and how to check the file.

Books

9 August 2026

Book printing: what the printer expects from your files

Bleed, CMYK, 300 dpi, embedded fonts and the right spine width. An overview of what a print-ready file contains and which mistakes end up costing the most.

Books

9 August 2026

Book cover design: what makes a book get picked up

A cover has to work on the shelf, as a webshop thumbnail and on the spine at once. What turns a cover into a sales argument — and what makes a book invisible.

Books

9 August 2026

How to publish a book: a step-by-step guide

From manuscript to printed book in eight steps: editing, layout, cover, ISBN, printing, legal deposit, pricing and sales. We go through them one by one.

Books

1 August 2026

Book layout: what a typesetter does and what it costs

Typesetting, book design and cover design are three different jobs. What a typesetter really does, what drives the price and how to prepare a manuscript.

Books

31 March 2026

Open Your Eyes III — Games of the Gods

ArborIT OÜ has completed another book, Open Your Eyes III – Games of the Gods, continuing Katrin Lucas's book series.

Books

29 July 2025

Open Your Eyes II — Cloneiverse

ArborIT OÜ has completed another book, Open Your Eyes II – Cloneiverse, the sequel to part one of Open Your Eyes.

Books

6 April 2025

Deported from Estonia 1940–1941: 12,354 records

“Register of Those Deported from Estonia 1940–1941” (R8/4): 12,354 short records of deportees across 130 pages. Our work was the register and the layout.

Books

18 June 2024

Why do good book design and typesetting matter?

Book design and typesetting decide whether a work is comfortable to read and reaches the printer without errors. The difference between the two, explained.

Books

28 September 2021

The Story of the House Without a House — part three

ArborIT OÜ has once again completed a book in the Majata Maja series, whose earlier volumes appeared in 2006 and 2015.

Books

9 December 2020

The book “Open Your Eyes”

Katrin Lucas's book “Open Your Eyes” about two worlds — the visible one and the hidden one. Our work was the design and layout of the book.

Books

2 December 2020

Estonians in Finnish and German Forces 1940–1945 (M–Y)

Volume 16 of the Estonian Memento Union series: 22,571 records of Estonians who served in the Finnish and German forces 1940–1945 (surnames M–Y), 794 pages.

Books

11 November 2020

Adventures on Fishing Waters — true Red Hunter stories

Another book laid out by ArborIT has gone to the printers: “Adventures on Fishing Waters, or True Stories of the Red Hunters” — real salmon fishing stories.

Books

28 May 2020

Estonians in Finnish and German Forces 1940–1945 (K–L)

Volume 15 of the Estonian Memento Union series: 20,629 records of Estonians who served in the Finnish and German forces 1940–1945 (surnames K–L), 770 pages.

Books

1 August 2019

Crimes of Communism in Estonia: register 1940–1990

In August a fresh book produced by us was published: “CRIMES OF COMMUNISM IN ESTONIA — SUPPLEMENTARY REGISTER 1940–1990”, series number 8/2.

Books

22 August 2018

Estonians in Finnish and German Forces 1940–1945 (A–J)

Volume 14 of the Estonian Memento Union series: 14,039 records of Estonians who served in the Finnish and German forces 1940–1945 (surnames A–J), 548 pages.

Books

17 March 2018

The book “On the Survival of the Estonian Nation”

The Tallinn House of Scientists collection “On the Survival of the Estonian Nation”. Our work: laying out several authors' texts, the cover and photo editing.

Books

22 January 2018

Memorial to the Victims of Communism: brief records

The Estonian Memento Union's “Brief Records for the Memorial to the Victims of Communism 1940–1991” (R8/6). Our work: data processing and layout.

Books

19 November 2015

The Story of the House Without a House (sequel)

The 50th anniversary volume of the Tallinn House of Scientists, “Majata Maja lugu (järg)”. Our work: layout, text processing and archive photo restoration.

Books

10 March 2014

Register of Those Deported from Estonia 1945–1953

The Estonian Memento Union's register volume “Register of Those Deported from Estonia 1945–1953” (R8/3). Our work: data processing and layout.

Book design and layout

The manuscript is ready, but the printer wants proper files? I lay out the book, design the cover and produce a print-ready PDF — including for substantial, data-heavy works of history.

Is your manuscript waiting to be typeset?

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Book design and layout

Books

EPUB e-books: what layout means for e-readers

Book printing: what the printer expects from your files

Book cover design: what makes a book get picked up

How to publish a book: a step-by-step guide

Book layout: what a typesetter does and what it costs

Open Your Eyes III — Games of the Gods

Open Your Eyes II — Cloneiverse

Deported from Estonia 1940–1941: 12,354 records

Why do good book design and typesetting matter?

The Story of the House Without a House — part three

The book “Open Your Eyes”

Estonians in Finnish and German Forces 1940–1945 (M–Y)

Adventures on Fishing Waters — true Red Hunter stories

Estonians in Finnish and German Forces 1940–1945 (K–L)

Crimes of Communism in Estonia: register 1940–1990

Estonians in Finnish and German Forces 1940–1945 (A–J)

The book “On the Survival of the Estonian Nation”

Memorial to the Victims of Communism: brief records

The Story of the House Without a House (sequel)

Register of Those Deported from Estonia 1945–1953

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