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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/10994
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I have a question, essentially about how to best format and make a PoD-appropriate version of a large manuscript. In this case it is a Bible version, but other people might have other large volumes that meet the same issues.

The reviews at [http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1494913402/ref=as\_li\_qf\_sp\_asin\_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1494913402&linkCode=as2&tag=jonascorn-20](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1494913402) identify two issues with the Classic Orthodox Bible as it is presently published:

1: The formatting is terrible.

2: The physical paperback book is huge even though the Old Testament is in too small print.

The first one I have a clear picture of how to improve.

The second one is a point where I would like to better know my options.

Regular Bibles, printed on superthin paper, are printed using technology under conditions where it is only profitable to print ~10,000 Bibles per print run. The paperback Classic Orthodox Bible is printed using CreateSpace PoD, where I was barely able to get things in at the existing font size using the largest trim size and overall the largest font size I could get in under the maximum size.

For the second one, what are my options to produce a (perhaps behemothic) single volume that has the Bible in question, has all text at a readably large font size, and given all these things, is as manageable in physical size as is reasonably possible?

Original score: 2