Check whether a paperback setup is a supported KDP combination.
Choose trim size, ink and paper, and page count to validate the combination against BoundHive’s dated KDP rules catalog.
What does this tool check?
A trim size can be valid for one ink, paper, binding, or page range and invalid for another. Check the complete combination, not the trim label alone.
Your calculated setup
- Full cover size
- 12.52024 × 9.25 in
- Spine width
- 0.27024 in
- Final even pages
- 120
- Spine text
- Allowed by page-count rule
- Front starts at
- 6.39524 in from left edge
- Barcode safe area
- 2 × 1.2 in
Dimensions use the selected final interior page count and BoundHive KDP rules version. Recalculate after the exported interior PDF has its final page count.
Rules version 2026-09-07 · Amazon KDP cover requirements
Use these settings in a new bookInputs, calculation, and limits
- What you enter
- Trim size, ink and paper type, and the planned page count.
- How the number is calculated
- Every supported trim size has its own minimum and maximum page count per ink and paper type. The checker looks the combination up in a dated copy of Amazon’s trim size table and reports whether the page count falls inside that range.
- What the result cannot tell you
- A supported combination is not a finished interior: margins, bleed, fonts, and image resolution are checked separately. Amazon can add or retire options; the rules date shown with each result says which version was checked.
A 6 x 9 in paperback, black ink on white paper, 200 interior pages, no interior bleed (KDP rules version 2026-09-07):
- 6 x 9 in with black ink on white paper supports 24 to 828 pages, so 200 pages is a supported combination.
- The same trim on cream paper or standard color paper has a different page range; the checker reports each one separately.
Which trim size, page count, margins, and bleed setting work together for my paperback?
Check the complete combination first: a trim size, ink and paper type, and page count must be a supported KDP set, and the page count then fixes the minimum inside margin and whether the interior needs a bleed page size.
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How BoundHive keeps the answer reproducible
The calculator uses the same versioned specification catalog as Book Studio. It validates the complete option combination before returning a dimension and records the rules date with the result.
Amazon can change requirements. Recheck the final files against the current KDP previewer and official documentation immediately before submission.