Print a real book at home.

Quire turns a PDF or an EPUB into sheets you can print on an ordinary printer, fold, sew or glue, and bind into a book that opens like one. It does the page arithmetic, typesets the text, numbers the pages and tells you, sheet by sheet, what to do next.

Released · 1.2.0 · Windows 10 and 11 · Download

Quire's Book screen with a sample book called Harrow Point: the Book and Book design settings on the left with the Literary hardcover style chosen, and on the right the first sheet of the print preview, with a text page and the half title side by side on one folded sheet. — A sample book in Quire 1.2.0: settings on the left, the first sheet of the print preview on the right. Captured 11 Nov 2026 from release source 9369773.

Choose how it will be bound. Quire does the arithmetic.

Fold and sew sections, cut and stack, a one-fold booklet, single sheets, a pocket book four to a side, or Japanese stab binding. Quire puts every page on the right side of the right sheet, compensates for paper creeping outward in a fold, and labels each sheet with its section and place.

The preview shows each side of each sheet exactly as it will print. The guide that comes with the files says which way to feed the paper, how to fold and where to staple or sew.

Fold & sew sections: Paperbacks that open flat
Cut & stack: Quick glued paperbacks
Booklet: Zines and short stories
Single sheets: Spiral, comb or glued
Pocket, 4-up: Small travel books
Japanese stab: One-sided printing, sewn by hand

A typeset book, not a printout.

Give Quire an EPUB and it sets the text as a book: a style to start from, a page size from A6 to Royal, the fonts on your PC, chapter openings with drop caps or a large numeral, justified text with real hyphenation.

Page numbers follow book custom: roman numerals in the front matter, 1 at the first chapter, and none on blank, title or chapter-opening pages. Running heads carry the title, the author or the chapter.

Quire's Book design settings: Literary hardcover style, Fill the page format, Garamond text font, 11 point type with 1.36 line spacing, wide margins, indented paragraphs, chapters on right-hand pages, a large number over each chapter title, drop caps and small capitals switched on, and page numbers in the top outer corner numbered i, ii, iii then 1 at chapter 1. — The Book design settings for the sample, from the same capture.

Two typeset pages of the sample book: chapter 1, The Lamp Room, opening under a large numeral with a drop capital and the first line in small capitals, numbered 1 at the foot; and the next page with the running head An ALLUSIONS sample and page number 2 in the top outer corner. — The pages Quire 1.2.0 set for the sample, shown as they print, before imposition. The text was written for this demonstration.

The parts a real book has.

Tick the parts you want and Quire builds them in the usual order: half title, title page, a copyright page filled from the EPUB's details, dedication, epigraph and contents; acknowledgments, about the author, ruled pages for notes and a colophon at the back.

Each part opens on a right-hand page, with blank pages added where a book needs them. The contents lists real page numbers: Quire lays the book out, reads where every chapter landed, and checks again until the numbers stop changing.

Printing a long series? Choose a chapter range and a volume name, or let Quire split the book between chapters by thickness.

Quire's Book parts settings: Select all and Title page only buttons; half title, title page, copyright page, dedication with the text For the keepers, an epigraph with its quotation and source, and contents ticked; acknowledgments and about the author unticked; colophon ticked; no ruled notes pages. — The Book parts chosen for the sample.

The sample's title page, with An ALLUSIONS sample above the title Harrow Point and the publisher below, and its contents page listing twelve chapters with dotted leaders to their page numbers, 1 to 23, numbered ix at the foot. — Title page and contents from the same book. The numbers in the contents are the pages the chapters landed on.

It tells you what went in.

Every part is listed as added, skipped with the reason, flagged with a warning, or failed. If the dedication box is empty, it says so. If the EPUB already has its own table of contents, it warns that the book would have two. If a page size cannot fit the paper, Quire refuses and says why, instead of shrinking the book without telling you.

Quire's What went into the book report for the sample: Success, 12 added, followed by a tick beside each part, from fonts and chapters through half title, title page, copyright page, dedication, epigraph, contents, colophon, right-hand openings, page numbers and running heads, each with a sentence saying what was done. — The report for the sample, checked on the preview; creating the print files checks the whole book.

What it does, and what it does not claim

Does

Imposes PDF and EPUB books for six binding methods, with fold-creep compensation and section labels

Typesets EPUBs with page numbers, running heads, generated front and back matter and a verified contents

Prepares covers sized to the spine, calibration sheets and a printed guide for each job

Checks the printer driver's paper, duplex and flip-edge settings, and stops if the driver's own booklet mode would scramble the pages

Does not claim

That a printed, folded or trimmed book has been verified on paper by its tests; physical printing and binding are checked by hand, not by the release gate

Publisher signing: the download is not code-signed, so Windows asks before it runs

Open source: the application's source is private; the executable is free to download

Download

Download Quire.exe

One file, no installer: save it and double-click it. If Windows says it protected your PC, choose More info, then Run anyway.

Version: 1.2.0, released 11 November 2026
Runs on: Windows 10 and 11, 64-bit; WebView2, included with Windows 11, for EPUB typesetting
File: Quire.exe, 78,086,140 bytes
SHA-256: 0bf89e4c6586e4631d7d81934c25cf4d977a2dacba98245e1f4c4069922f00fc
Releases: allusionsafk/quire-download on GitHub