The page your reader turns is the page you wrote on
Most writing apps give you an endless scroll and let the “real” layout happen later, somewhere else, to someone else. Kanonara takes the opposite bet: the book has pages from the first sentence. You write on them, and when you publish, readers turn the same ones.
What fixed means
A real page, not a scrolling draft
You write on an A6 book page, the compact bunko size Japanese paperbacks use, with a fixed type size and a fixed number of lines. The text ends where the page ends.
One engine for writing and reading
The same pagination runs the editor, the page viewer and the public reader. If a chapter fits on forty-two pages while you write it, it is forty-two pages when someone reads it.
The layout is never a guess
Page geometry is computed from the page model itself, never measured from a scaled on-screen element, so pagination does not shift between devices, themes or zoom.
Type you do not have to fight
Left-aligned text, one measure, per-script fonts and spacing. The page is designed, so the writing can be about the story.
What pages give back
Pacing you can see. A chapter that runs long has pages you can count. Writers notice their chapter rhythm on pages faster than in word counts: the sag in the middle of a scene is literally a stack of pages.
An ending with weight. The last line of a chapter lands somewhere on a page, and where it lands is a craft decision you can feel (see chapter endings).
A shared object. Editor, viewer and public reader paginate identically, so “page fourteen” means one thing from draft to publication.
Write on a real page
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