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Tasting & Cooking KDP Interiors: Free Tasting Journal and Recipe Book

A tasting journal and a recipe book — free KDP interiors in 6" × 9" and 8.5" × 11".

Made by BookBird · Free to use in your own books · Margins set to Amazon KDP’s rules

Tasting journal: a two-page spread of the interior

Journals & logs

Tasting journal

For wine, whisky, coffee, tea or cheese: maker, origin, appearance, aroma, taste, finish and a rating.

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KDP setup
Trim
6" × 9", 8.5" × 11"
Pages
120
Interior
Black ink, white paper
Bleed
No bleed — page size equals trim size
Margins
Inside 0.5", outside 0.375", top 0.5", bottom 0.5"
Low-content
Yes — tick the Low-content box
Recipe book: a two-page spread of the interior

Journals & logs

Recipe book

A four-page recipe index, then one numbered recipe page each: servings, times, ingredients, directions.

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KDP setup
Trim
6" × 9", 8.5" × 11"
Pages
120
Interior
Black ink, white paper
Bleed
No bleed — page size equals trim size
Margins
Inside 0.5", outside 0.375", top 0.5", bottom 0.5"
Low-content
Yes — tick the Low-content box

One tasting journal, many subjects

The tasting page asks the same four questions whatever is in the glass or on the board — appearance, aroma, taste, finish — so it works for wine, whisky, beer, coffee, tea or cheese. Name the book for the subject in the title and cover; the interior stays the same.

The recipe index

Pages 2–5 of the recipe book are an index with the page numbers already printed; every recipe page carries its number at the bottom, so the index works as soon as the owner writes a recipe name next to it.

How to publish a template on KDP, in 5 steps

  1. Download the PDF in your trim size

    Each file is a complete interior: the right page size, 120 pages (42 for the coloring book), margins already set. Nothing needs to be resized.

  2. Create a paperback on your KDP Bookshelf

    For a notebook, planner, journal or log, tick Low-content under Categories on the details page — KDP rejects a low-content book without it. Coloring books are not low-content in KDP’s own list, so leave the box unticked for those.

  3. Set the print options

    Black & white interior on white paper, the trim size of the file you downloaded, and No bleed. A low-content book can be published without an ISBN or with your own; it is not eligible for a free KDP ISBN.

  4. Upload the interior and a cover

    Upload the PDF as the manuscript. The cover is yours to make: the cover calculator gives the full cover size and spine width for your trim and page count. KDP prints spine text only on books with more than 79 pages, so a 120-page book can carry it.

  5. Preview, order a proof, publish

    Open Launch Previewer in the Book Preview section and fix anything it flags, order a printed proof if you want to hold it first, then set your price — the royalty calculator shows the printing cost and what you earn per copy.

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