Flashcards
Entries from the guide, turned into cards you can flip through between patients or between classes.
Pocket guide companion store
Find the companion for your pocket guide.
Every Divine K Press pocket guide has a free online companion with flashcards, a quiz and printable reference cards. Pick a shelf, search by topic, try a few cards, then get yours.
No companion matches that search.
Try a broader word such as a specialty or a body system, or clear the search to see every title.
How a guide is built
Every entry answers in the same order.
A reader flipping a pocket guide open mid-task should never have to learn a new layout. Chapters hold 16 to 22 entries, and every entry in a book follows one template, such as the one below.
- Use it when The situation that sends you to this entry, in plain words.
- How to do it The steps or the numbers, short enough to read standing up.
- Common error The mistake that shows up most often at the bedside or in the field.
- Document What to chart, and what the next person needs to see.
6 × 9Trade-paperback trim
~300Pages per guide
18–24Chapters
7Diagrams, maximum
4+Image prompts for photo-accurate subjects
1Auto-paginated index
Image prompts mark the places where a real photograph or tracing is needed, such as an ECG strip, a radiograph or a wound presentation.
Pocket guide companion
The book, plus the study tools.
Each guide has a free online companion. It runs in the browser, works without an account, and asks for nothing.
Quiz
Short question sets drawn from the same entries, with the answer shown after each question.
Printable reference cards
One-page cards for the tables you reach for most. Print them and clip them to a badge.
Free Pocket Guide Toolkit
One download with three toolkit PDFs: Medical, Veterinary and Behavioral Health. Pick the one that fits your work. Signing up for updates is optional.
For publishers
Publishing pocket guides? Start from a standard.
The format that works for readers is also the one that keeps a production line moving. Use the checklist below as a pre-flight for any 6 by 9 pocket guide, and the calculator for paperback cover sizing.
- One entry template per book. Pick the four or five fields and use them on every entry.
- Chapters of 16 to 22 entries. Short enough to scan, long enough to be worth a tab.
- A color for each specialty. Chapter bars, tabs and cover share it.
- Tables inside the margins. Leave real space at the page edge, because trimmed paper takes some of it.
- Diagrams only where they earn the page. Mark photo-accurate subjects as image prompts.
- An index at the back. Readers search pocket guides by term, not by chapter.
- A companion on the cover and in the listing. Say what the reader gets for free.
Calculator
Paperback cover size, 6 × 9 trim
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At 300 dpi
Full cover is front, spine and back with a 0.125 in bleed on every side. Amazon KDP's own cover calculator is the final word, so confirm there before you upload.
About
An independent imprint for point-of-need reference.
Divine K Press LLC is a New Mexico single-member company that publishes original fiction and nonfiction, including exam preparation, study workbooks, self-development titles and general-interest nonfiction.
The pocket guide line is where the imprint holds itself to the tightest standard: short entries, honest scope, and a free companion for every reader.