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Publish a children's workbook where every page reads itself out loud — and never record a single word of audio.

Paste a word list. Three minutes later you have a print-ready interior, a full-wrap KDP cover, and an Amazon listing — and a QR code on every page that says the word, spells it, and uses it in a sentence in a real voice. The child can finally use the book without an adult sitting next to them.

EchoBooks AI — printable children's workbooks with a QR code on every page: sight word, word search, maze, spelling test and secret code pages, the builder open on a laptop, and the talking page playing on a phone
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389Words with illustrations
8Activities per word page
300DPI, KDP print-ready
∞Audio hosting, no monthly fee
✅ 8.5×11" · mirror margins · embedded fonts 🔊 Real MP3 audio on every page 📵 No app for the parent to install ⏱️ Word list → finished PDF in ~3 minutes
Proof, before a single claim

Scan it with your own phone. I'll wait.

That page on the left came out of EchoBooks AI. The phone on the right is not a picture — it's the actual page loading live, right now, from the QR code printed on it.

A real EchoBooks word page for "jump" with eight activities and a QR code

A real page, straight out of the app — nothing retouched.

Live — not a mockup

This is what your buyer's four-year-old sees and hears.
No app. No login. No account. Just a camera.

👆 The code printed on that page
Point your camera at it and you'll hear the word "jump" taught out loud.
From the desk of
Leo Sterling · software for self-publishers

It's a quarter past eleven at night.

You have Canva open. You have twenty-six pages to lay out and you're on page four. The tracing font looked fine on screen and printed like a grey smudge. The clipart you found doesn't match the clipart on page two. You still have to write the description, guess seven keywords, and design a cover with a spine you don't know how to calculate.

And when it's finally done — after two evenings you won't get back — it lands on Amazon next to forty thousand books that look exactly like it, all priced at $6.99, all fighting over the same buyer.

You didn't lose because your book was bad. You lost because there was no reason to pick yours.

I want to show you a reason. It costs you nothing extra to add, no competitor in the category has it, and a parent can see it in the "Look Inside" preview in about two seconds.

Your book talks. Theirs doesn't.

Why this category is so brutal

Making one of these books by hand is a weekend you don't get paid for

01

Every page is manual

Forty words means forty pages, each with tracing lines, letter boxes, a sentence, and a puzzle — laid out by hand, one at a time, matching perfectly.

02

Print ruins what looked fine

Grey "ghost" tracing text vanishes on paper. Images under 300 DPI get rejected. Margins that ignore the gutter make the inner column unreadable.

03

The cover is a second project

Full wrap, bleed, and a spine width that changes with your page count. Get it wrong and KDP bounces the file back at you.

04

Then you look identical anyway

After all that work your book is one more silent worksheet book on a shelf of silent worksheet books, competing only on price.

The one thing that changes everything

A printed page has never been able to talk. Now it can.

Here's what actually happens after somebody buys a sight-words workbook.

Mum opens it with her four-year-old. Page one says "Read the word." And the four-year-old can't — that's the entire reason the book was bought.

So Mum reads it to her. Fine on Tuesday. On Thursday she's making dinner. By Sunday the book is under the sofa, and three weeks later the review says "my child couldn't use this on their own."

Put a QR code on that page and the sentence changes. The child scans it herself and hears:

"Listen carefully. This word is… jump. Jump. Let's spell it together: j, u, m, p. That spells jump! Here it is in a sentence: Jump in the water! Now it's your turn. Say jump out loud, three times…"

Then she does the eight activities printed on the same page. The adult has been removed from the loop. The book gets used on Thursday. It gets used on Sunday. And the review says something very different.

That is the whole idea, and it is the reason your book is worth more than the $6.99 one beside it.

How it works

Three steps. About three minutes. No design skill anywhere.

STEP 1

Pick your word list

Dolch Pre-Primer, Dolch Primer, or Spelling Grade 1. The words load themselves — you don't type anything.

STEP 2

Pick a theme and a voice

EchoBooks writes the teaching script for every single word. Don't like a line? Rewrite it. Want to hear it first? Press play.

STEP 3

Click generate

Interior PDF, full-wrap cover PDF, and an Amazon listing pack. The audio goes live at the same moment — the QR codes work before you've uploaded anything.

echobook.leosterling.net/studio/wizard.html
EchoBooks AI, step 4 of the builder: a preview grid showing every one of the 57 pages that will print, each with its own QR code
Step 4 of the builder, on a real account. Every page in that grid is the page that prints — and the little square in the corner of each one is its own QR code.
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Dinosaur Sight Words Workbook — Scan & Listen Edition.pdf
57 pages · 8.5 × 11" · 300 DPI · black & white interior · mirror margins
Amazon KDPTeachers Pay TeachersEtsyGumroad

That's the actual output. Nothing else to buy, nothing else to install.

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Inside the book

One word per page. Eight activities. Zero filler.

I've bought "60-page" workbooks that were twelve pages repeated five times. This is not that. Hover or tap any page to see it straight.

Title page This book belongs to page Word page with eight activities Word search game page Completion certificate
👀

Read it

The word, huge, with a line-art picture clue for a child who can't read it yet.

🖍️

Colour it

Hollow outline letters — fine motor practice that doubles as quiet time.

🔤

Build it

Empty letter boxes plus the scrambled letters underneath.

✍️

Trace it

Two difficulty levels of real dotted letter paths — not grey text that disappears in print.

📝

Write it

Ruled practice lines with a dashed mid-line, school handwriting style.

🧩

Fix it

The same word three times with different letters missing.

💬

Read the sentence

A written example sentence for the word — the same one the voice reads aloud.

🔍

Find it

An 18-word grid to hunt the word down and circle it.

🎮

A game every 5 words

Word search, matching, secret code and maze, rotating so no two feel the same.

⭐

A review every 10 words

Checkpoints that let a child see progress — plus answer key pages, the thing reviewers always say is missing.

🏫

Classroom edition

One switch adds a Name/Date header, so the same book also sells on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Every page type, nothing hidden

Four game types, three review layouts, twelve page types. Look at every one of them.

Straight renders from a book the app produced — tap any page to open it full size and read every line.

Title page
Title page
Dear Grown-Ups instruction page
Parent guide
This book belongs to page
“Belongs to” + audio
Word page for jump
Word page — “jump”
Word page for see
Word page — “see”
Word page for run
Word page — “run”
Word search game page
Game — word search
Matching game page
Game — matching
Secret code game page
Game — secret code
Word maze game page
Game — word maze
Review checkpoint page
Review checkpoint
Completion certificate page
Certificate
The parts other tools make you buy separately

A finished cover and a written Amazon listing come with every book

Front cover generated by EchoBooks AI
The same cover as a full wrap — back cover, spine and front
The same file as a full wrap — back cover, spine and front, with the barcode area left clear. Tap to open full size.
🎨

Full-wrap cover generator

Back cover, spine calculated from your exact page count, and front cover — with the barcode area left clear the way KDP requires. The back cover even carries its own QR code so a browsing parent can hear the book before they buy it. Upload the file as-is.

📋

Amazon Listing Pack

A text file with your title, a written product description, 7 backend keyword suggestions, two category suggestions and a price range — generated for the exact book you just made. Copy, paste, publish.

I could have held these two back and sold them to you later. I didn't, because a $17 tool that can't produce a finished, uploadable book isn't a tool — it's a trailer.

The honest comparison

The old way vs. the EchoBooks way

Doing it yourselfEchoBooks AI
Laying out 40 activity pagesTwo evenings in Canva, matching every element by hand~3 minutes
Audio for 40 wordsRecord 40 clips, edit them, find a host, pray the links outlive the subscriptionWritten and voiced for you, hosted permanently
QR codes that surviveA QR service at $5–20/month — stop paying and every printed book goes silentBuilt in. No recurring cost, ever
Picture clues for each wordA stock library subscription, then hours of searching389 words already illustrated
KDP-spec cover with spine$50–150 to a designer, or an afternoon of template guessworkGenerated with the book
Listing + keywordsAn hour of research, or $25 to a VAWritten with the book
What you end up withAnother silent workbook competing on priceThe only book on that shelf that talks
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Let's be straight with each other

Who this is built for — and who should skip it

✅ This is for you if…

  • You publish on Amazon KDP and want a children's book that isn't interchangeable with everyone else's.
  • You sell on Etsy or Teachers Pay Teachers and need printable products you can produce quickly.
  • You've thought about the kids' education niche but stalled at the design work.
  • You're a teacher, tutor or homeschool parent who wants materials a child can genuinely use alone.
  • You want a product where the value is obvious in the "Look Inside" preview.

🚫 This is not for you if…

  • You want a button that publishes to Amazon for you. EchoBooks makes the files; you upload them.
  • You expect to never look at what you produce. You should read the pages and print a test copy.
  • You want a guarantee about sales or ranking. Nobody can honestly give you that, and I won't pretend to.
  • You need dozens of word lists on day one — the $17 edition covers Dolch Pre-Primer, Dolch Primer and Spelling Grade 1. Bigger lists are an optional upgrade, and I'd rather you know that now than after you pay.
Not publishing? It still earns its keep

Teachers, tutors and homeschool parents use it for their own kids

👩‍🏫

Teachers

Print a talking worksheet pack matched to this week's words. Children who need the word said aloud get it without pulling you away from the rest of the class.

🏡

Homeschool parents

Build the exact list your child is stuck on. They scan, they hear, they practise — and you get twenty minutes back.

📚

Tutors

Send home a booklet that keeps teaching between sessions, with your own words in it and audio that doesn't need you.

"But what about…"

The four things people ask before they buy

"Will the QR codes die?"

No — and that's the whole promise

The audio pages live on my server at no cost to you, permanently. They're tiny text-and-audio pages; hosting them costs me almost nothing, which is exactly why I can promise it and a $5/month QR service can't.

"Isn't AI audio awful?"

Judge it yourself, above

It's a synthesised teaching voice, deliberately slowed with pauses for a young child. The phone at the top of this page is playing the real thing — that's precisely why I put it there instead of describing it.

"What if I need to fix a word?"

Edit and re-download, same QR codes

Open the book in My Books, change what you like, generate again. It keeps its original codes, so copies already printed and sold keep working. I built that in because I knew it would happen.

"Do parents need an app?"

No. Just a camera

Any phone camera opens the page. No download, no account, no sign-up, and nothing personal is collected from the child.

Included today

Four bonuses, waiting in your account the moment you log in

Not "value stack" filler — these are the four things that actually stand between a generated file and a live listing.

BONUS #1

The KDP Upload Checklist

Every field on Amazon's upload screens in order, with what to put in each one, which trim size to choose, and the three settings that get children's books rejected. Follow it once and you'll never need it again.

$27 value
BONUS #2

50 Title Formulas That Sell Kids' Workbooks

Fill-in-the-blank title patterns pulled from how the category is actually titled — age brackets, promise words, series naming. Paste your theme in and you have a title.

$27 value
BONUS #3

A Finished Sample Book

A complete 20-word talking workbook, print-ready, with live QR codes. Print a page on your own printer before you build anything, so you can see exactly how the tracing lines and grids come out on paper.

$37 value
BONUS #4

Front-Matter & Copyright Templates

The copyright page, the "this book belongs to" page and the parent instruction page — already written, ready to drop in. The unglamorous pages that make a book look professionally published.

$17 value
Everything you get today

One payment. No subscription. No monthly hosting bill.

EchoBooks AI Starter — unlimited talking books$97
Dolch Pre-Primer + Dolch Primer (92 words), teaching script written for every word$47
Spelling Dictation Edition, Grade 1 — the book that reads the test aloud$47
389-word line-art illustration library$37
Full-wrap KDP cover generator with calculated spine$67
Amazon Listing Pack with every book you make$27
Permanent audio hosting — no monthly fee, no dead QR codes$97
Game pages, review checkpoints, answer keys, certificate$37
BONUS · KDP Upload Checklist$27
BONUS · 50 Title Formulas$27
BONUS · Finished sample book, print-ready$37
BONUS · Front-matter & copyright templates$17
Total value$564
Today, one payment — not $47/month
$17
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30DAY
GUARANTEE

The "Hear It Yourself" Guarantee

Get in. Build a real book. Print a page on your own printer and scan it with your own phone.

If it doesn't do what this page says, email me at leo@leosterling.net within 30 days and I'll refund you. No form, no "tell us why", no hard feelings.

And your QR codes stay alive even if you refund. I'm not going to punish a child holding a printed book because their publisher asked for their money back.

Leo Sterling
Creator of EchoBooks AI

I build software for self-publishers.

I built EchoBooks because I kept reading the same one-star review under children's workbooks — "my child needed me for every single page" — and it struck me that the problem was never the content. It was that paper can't talk, and everybody had quietly accepted that as a law of physics.

It isn't a law of physics. It's a QR code and somewhere to put the audio.

If a page won't generate or something breaks, you email me and you get me — not a ticket queue.

📧 leo@leosterling.net
Let's recap

Everything that lands in your account for $17

📖

The book engine

Sight Words + Spelling Grade 1, 8 activities per page, games, reviews, answer keys and a certificate — unlimited books.

🔊

The talking part

A written teaching script and real audio for every word, on a QR code, hosted permanently at no extra cost.

📦

Ready to publish

Print-ready interior, full-wrap cover with calculated spine, and a written Amazon listing with keywords.

🎁

Four bonuses

KDP upload checklist, 50 title formulas, a finished sample book, and front-matter templates.

Get Instant Access — $17One payment · No subscription · 30-day guarantee
Before you decide

Questions publishers actually ask

Do the parents or children need to download an app?
No. Any phone camera opens the page. Nothing to install, no account for them, no sign-up, and no personal data is collected from a child — the page has no email box and no login.
How long do the QR codes keep working?
Permanently, at no extra cost to you. The audio pages are tiny, so hosting them costs me almost nothing. That's why this is a promise I can actually keep, unlike a monthly QR service that goes dark the moment you stop paying.
What if I need to change a word after the book is printed?
Open the book in My Books, edit it, and download it again. It keeps its original QR codes, so the copies already out in the world keep working. This was built in deliberately.
Are the files really KDP-compliant?
8.5 × 11", mirror margins that account for the gutter, black-and-white interior, embedded fonts, images at 300 DPI, and a full-wrap cover with a spine calculated from your page count and a clear barcode area. You still upload and publish yourself — and I can't and won't promise how Amazon will rank anything.
Can I sell what I make commercially?
Yes. The books you generate are yours to publish and sell — on Amazon KDP, Etsy, Teachers Pay Teachers, Gumroad, or in your own classroom.
Is this a subscription? Will I be billed again?
No. $17 once. There are optional upgrades offered after checkout, and one of them is a monthly membership — it is clearly labelled as monthly, and nothing recurring is ever attached to this $17 purchase.
What exactly is in the $17 edition?
Dolch Pre-Primer (40 words), Dolch Primer (52 words) and Spelling Grade 1, unlimited books from those lists, two illustration themes, one voice, the standard page layout, the cover generator, the listing pack, and all four bonuses. Bigger word lists (Dolch Grade 1, Fry 1st/2nd/3rd 100, Spelling Grades 2–4), more themes and voices, extra page layouts and the series builder are in the optional PRO upgrade. I'd rather you read that here than discover it after paying.
How many books can I make?
As many as you want. There is no book limit and no per-book charge — including the audio hosting.
I've never published on KDP. Can I still do this?
Yes, and Bonus #1 exists exactly for that — the upload checklist walks you through Amazon's screens field by field. You'll need a free KDP account and about twenty minutes the first time. Get stuck and you can email me.
What if it isn't for me?
Email me within 30 days and I refund you, no questions. And your QR codes stay live regardless.
One last thing

Picture next month's version of your catalogue

A parent opens the Look Inside preview on your book and sees a QR code on every page. She scans one out of curiosity, standing in her kitchen, and hears a friendly voice teaching her daughter a word.

She hasn't seen that before. Neither has anyone else browsing that category today.

That's the whole edge — and it takes about three minutes per book to build.

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