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Great info lumped together, but messy output
I’ve used Youbooks to write 4 books. It definitely provides a lot of information and speeds up the research side of the process.
But the execution has been frustrating. It references chapters that aren’t there, and the formatting is awful. Even with the draft it produces, I still have to go through the entire thing and rewrite it. So for me, it’s become more of a research tool than a “write books fast” solution, which is disappointing given the promise of a smoother book-generation workflow.
That said, it does save me time on searching for information on a topic myself.
If you’re buying this expecting a near publish-ready manuscript, you may be let down. If you want a jumpstart on research and a rough framework you’re willing to heavily clean up, it can still be useful.
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Edited Dec 9, 2025Hi Ash, thanks for the review!
Youbooks does not format books on purpose (beyond TOC, headings, sub-headings, and other markdown constructs). We don't do this because the books you generate need to be trully white label products that you can turn into your books. Any kind of formatting would make the books identifiable as "youbooks" books, which would defeat that purpose. So, I will agree with you that the formatting is not good in the sense that, there is no real formatting.
We are aware of the reference issue and have already improved on it. In a 100K document, some wrong references are statistically bound to happen. You can try increasing the editing level option to a higher setting, or, you can try post-editing, with the specific task of removing cross references all-together. All that said, youbooks provides state of the art consistency across long-form text; please do let us know if you are aware of a tool that has higher consistency than youbooks. In our evals, there is none.
Totally agree with you that Youbooks does not provide a ready-to-publish manuscript. However, I think this is unrealistic at this point. No company can do that (or come even close) not even in short-form, never-mind long-form.