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Your sketch is temporary and never leaves this page.PocketAuthor for book editing software
Compare revisions, preserve cuts, resolve comments and guide collaborators through explicit editorial stages.
Quick answer
Book editing software should distinguish structural work from copyediting and proofreading. PocketAuthor changes the review emphasis by stage, preserves named snapshots and keeps chapter-level comments and decisions attached to the manuscript.
A book-native workflow
Review chapter balance, missing sections, argument order and continuity.
Work through developmental and line edits with named snapshots.
Route comments and suggestions to the right reviewer and chapter.
Enter proofreading or publication-freeze mode before production.
Common questions
Yes. Named snapshots and revision comparisons preserve meaningful restore points.
A proofreading-only collaboration mode can restrict the scope and warn about structural changes.
Long deletions can be moved to Cuts so useful material is recoverable and searchable.
One continuous workflow
PocketAuthor carries context forward, so every stage builds on the decisions and material that came before it.
Collect the documents, transcripts, notes and research you are permitted to use in one source-aware workspace.
Map recurring ideas, audience needs, evidence gaps and the strongest path through the material.
Draft and revise without losing the sources, decisions, structure and language that make the work yours.
Turn one canonical manuscript into polished editions, metadata and publishing-ready files.
Reuse approved ideas across learning experiences, launch material and an edition-grounded reader companion.
Make rights, attribution, source provenance and human approval visible throughout the process.
AI can help organize, question, compare and draft—but it should not erase the trail back to your sources or make publishing decisions on your behalf. PocketAuthor keeps review and authorship visible.
Start with what you already know
Bring your strongest material together and discover the book it can become.