Simplify a text
Make a text accessible to everyone, without losing the substance.
A clear book is a book people finish. Makebook helps you write your whole book with words your reader understands.
Write my bookThe guide
Clarity is a courtesy to your reader. A simple text isn't a poor text: it's a text where each sentence carries one idea and each word is understood at first glance.
To simplify by hand, cut sentences longer than twenty-five words, replace jargon with an example and prefer the active voice. The tool applies these principles to give you a base.
Reread the result asking whether a non-specialist reader would understand. If a technical term is essential, keep it and explain it in one sentence.
Frequently asked questions
Does simplifying water the text down?
Not if the essential ideas are kept. Difficult words are replaced and sentences are shortened, but the substance stays the same.
What level is the text simplified to?
The result aims at a middle-school reading level, understandable by the widest audience without being childish.
What texts is it useful for?
Legal, technical, scientific or administrative texts, but also your own passages when they've become too dense.