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keeping.
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The Enqualia bookshop

Stories worth
keeping.

Ebooks, audiobooks, paperbacks and hardcovers from independent authors. Read in your browser, listen to the immersive audiobook, or keep the printed thing. Every book starts with a free sample.

Formats
Ebook, paperback, hardcover, audiobook
Audiobooks
Cinematic sound, words lit as spoken
To the author
80% of every single sale

One roof

A bookshop and a writing studio,
under one roof.

Every book here was also written here: drafted, proofread, translated and typeset in the same studio it’s sold from. Want paper? Your copy is printed to order, one at a time.

And the story doesn’t stop at the page. Every book can become an immersive audiobook: a cast of voices over music and ambience, with the text lighting up word by word as you listen.

Immersive audiobooks

Narrated by a cast, scored with music and sound, synced to the text word by word.

Sample everything

Read the opening chapter of any book free, or listen to the audiobook sample.

Authors keep 80%

Of every sale, in every format. That’s the whole business model.

Page one

Set like a real book.
Because it becomes one.

The typesetting that draws this page also builds the print interiors our authors send to press, drop caps, folios and all. Read any first chapter free, or press play and watch the words light up in time with the narrator’s voice.

About Enqualia

Enqualia Books is a small publishing house that lives on the internet. Authors write here, with an AI proofreader, a translator and a living map of their story’s world at their elbow. Readers shop here, choosing the ebook, the paperback, the hardcover or the audiobook of the same story.

Press play and this page becomes a performance: an immersive audiobook with a cast of voices, music and ambience, each word lighting up the moment it is spoken. Eighty percent of every sale goes to the author, and the page itself is set the way our interiors print, because a story worth keeping deserves to be an object, not only a file.

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The bookshop

Here to read?

Books from independent authors: ebook, paperback, hardcover or immersive audiobook. Printed to order, shipped worldwide, and every book opens with a free sample.

The studio

Here to write?

Take a manuscript from first draft to printed paperback, with AI proofreading, translation, and a living map of your story's world. Authors keep 80% of every sale.

Powered by Enqualia AI

Write the book.
Map the world.

The writing studio for novelists who think in worlds. Draft distraction-free, proofread and translate with AI, and watch a living knowledge graph of your story emerge as you write.

  • No credit card
  • Your manuscript stays yours
  • KDP-ready exports
828k+
Words written
1k+
Chapters proofread
40+
Languages
AmsterdamUtrechtRotterdamDen HaagEindhovenIIris de VriesJJoris BakkerLLotte JanssenN
Ch. 1 · The first read · November 2020
Iris opens the dossier
auto-camera
drag to pan · scroll to zoom
Chapter 1 of 6November 2020
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A novel as a living world.

As you write, Enqualia reads your chapters and builds the world underneath the story: every character, place, relationship, and scene, mapped and remembered.

Click anything below and the map above follows.

In-world timeline

auto-built from your chapters
Immersive audiobooks

Your book,
scored like a film.

Turn any chapter into a layered audiobook: a cast of AI voices, music that follows every scene, and text that lights up word by word as it is spoken.

  • A cast, not a narrator

    One narrator plus a distinct voice for every character. You direct the delivery scene by scene, and redo any line until it lands.

  • A living score

    Scene-aware music, ambience and sound effects, mixed under the voices automatically and following the mood of your prose.

  • Words that light up

    Word-level sync turns listening into a lyric video. Readers follow along on the page or in a fullscreen lyric stage.

Built-in book marketing

Every scene is a ready-made ad.

Select a moment on the audiobook timeline and export it as a vertical clip, with voices, music and word-synced captions baked in. Post it to TikTok, Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts and let the scene sell the book.

  • Word-synced captions, no video editing needed
  • Vertical 9:16, sized for TikTok, Reels and Shorts
  • Rendered straight from your audiobook in minutes

One strong scene a day is a month of content from a single chapter.

One studio, four superpowers

Everything an author needs.

Built for the messy middle of the writing process, from the first blank page to the printed paperback.

Distraction-free editor

A canvas built for prose, not toolbars.

Serif type, generous line-height, autosave every 3 seconds. Chapter list on the left, AI in a panel you can hide, and a status line that tells you exactly when your last sentence was saved.

  • TipTap rich-text engine with custom AI extensions
  • Drag-to-reorder chapters, instant outline view
  • Works offline · syncs to Firebase the moment you reconnect
editor · ch. 4 · the river

The river was wider than she remembered. She had walked along it as a child, and back then it had been hardly a stream, but the years had widened it, the way years widen everything you stop watching.

She set the lantern down on the rocks and listened. The water sounded almost human.

✓ Saved 2 seconds ago

AI proofreading

Edits that respect your voice.

Highlight a sentence and Enqualia returns grammar, style, and clarity suggestions ranked by confidence, never auto-applied. Each suggestion shows the rule it triggered, so you learn as you accept.

  • Inline suggestions for spelling, grammar, style and clarity, ranked by confidence
  • Batch-mode scans whole chapters with one click
  • Builds a private style profile so the AI sounds like you
proofread · 4 suggestions

The river was wide-r than she remembered.

She had walked along it as a child.

spellingHyphenation
wide-rwider
styleActive verb
walked along itfollowed it
grammarPeriod missing
years widen everything you stop watchingyears widen everything you stop watching.
Ontology + Worldbuilding

Your world, indexed.

Every chapter you write feeds an OWL-inspired knowledge graph: characters, locations, items, themes, events, and the relations between them. Six-degrees queries, contextual webs, and a visual graph editor all included.

  • Auto-extracted entities + relationships from prose
  • Neo4j-powered shortest-path queries between any two ideas
  • Hand-edit the ontology when the AI gets it wrong
worldbuilding · graph
MiraKaelErisRiverSpire
Six-degrees: Kael → Mira → Eris
Translation + KDP publishing

From draft to Amazon paperback.

Translate any chapter into 40+ languages while preserving the world graph. When the manuscript is ready, run editorial review and export a KDP-ready interior + cover wrap PDF, with print-on-demand fulfilment included.

  • Translation variants share the source book’s ontology
  • Editor portal for human-in-the-loop review
  • Direct-to-consumer paperback via Lulu Direct
publish · KDP package
A novel
The Bone Lantern
Mira Vael
Descriptionauto
Keywords (7)auto
BISAC codesauto
Interior PDFready
Cover wrapready
EPUB exportready
Editor reviewapproved
Download KDP package
For every kind of author

Whatever you’re writing, start it here.

Simple pricing

Free to write. Simple to read.

We make money when authors do. 80% of every sale goes to the author, for digital, print, and subscription reads.

Free

€0forever
  • Unlimited books & chapters
  • Distraction-free editor + autosave
  • Basic AI proofreading
  • Worldbuilding graph (private)
  • Cloud sync across devices
Most popular

Reader

€9.99/ month
  • Read every book in the catalog
  • Subscription supports authors
  • Cancel anytime · 14-day refund
Frequently asked

Answers, before you have to ask.

Enqualia Books is an AI-empowered writing studio for novelists. It combines a distraction-free editor, AI proofreading and translation, and an automatic worldbuilding knowledge graph that tracks characters, locations, items, themes, and events as you write. The platform also exports KDP-ready files and ships paperbacks via print-on-demand.

Most AI writing tools rewrite sentences. Enqualia Books focuses on the long-form structure of a novel: it builds a queryable graph of your story (characters, places, events) and uses that graph as context for proofreading, translation, and brainstorming, so suggestions stay consistent with the world you have already built.

No. Your manuscript is stored privately in your Firebase workspace and is never used to train AI models. AI requests are sent through the Enqualia Cloud Run service, processed once, and discarded. You own your text end-to-end.

Enqualia Books uses Google Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite served through the Enqualia API platform. All AI calls are routed through a single secure backend; API keys are never exposed to the browser.

Yes. Enqualia Books imports PDFs, EPUBs, Google Docs, and Word documents. Chapter detection runs automatically; you can drag-to-reorder afterwards.

Forty-plus, including all major European, East Asian, and South Asian languages. Translation variants automatically share the source book’s worldbuilding ontology, so character names, pronouns, and place-names stay consistent across editions.

As you write, an OWL-inspired ontology engine extracts entities (characters, locations, items, themes) and the relationships between them, then writes them to a Neo4j graph. You can edit the ontology by hand, run six-degrees queries between any two ideas, and visualise the contextual web around any entity.

Yes. Enqualia renders immersive audiobooks: a cast of AI voices with a distinct voice per character, scene-aware music and ambience, and word-level text sync so readers can follow along like a lyric video. You direct the delivery scene by scene, and any moment can be exported as a vertical clip with word-synced captions for TikTok, Instagram Reels, or YouTube Shorts.

Yes. The publishing workspace runs an editorial review (human-in-the-loop) and then exports a complete KDP package: trim-correct interior PDF, full cover wrap PDF, EPUB, and a metadata.json file matching Amazon's ingestion format. A step-by-step README is included.

Writing on Enqualia Books is free: unlimited books and chapters, the editor, AI proofreading, translation, the worldbuilding graph, and KDP export tools all come at no cost to authors. On the reading side, individual ebooks, audiobooks, and print-on-demand paperbacks are sold per book, or you can subscribe to the Reader plan for €9.99/month for unlimited access to the catalog.

Yes: the editor caches your last open chapter and queues edits locally. The moment you reconnect, changes sync to your secure Firebase workspace.

Your story deserves a studio.

Free to start. Unlimited chapters. AI tools that actually help you finish.

Just here to read? Browse the bookshop

Built by two people who care.

A small team obsessed with helping authors finish what they started.

Antoni Elkenbracht

Antoni Elkenbracht

Co-founder · Engineering

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Marharita Nakaliuzhna

Marharita Nakaliuzhna

Co-founder · Design