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title: Editing your book
description: Add your photos, change layouts, edit text and colors, and arrange pages in an asemb.ly book.
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  label: Editing your book
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Editing happens on books you own. A book starts as a draft. You can rename it, keep editing, or archive it. Your book list hides archived and deleted books.

## Photos

You add photos to your account, then place them in a book. A photo can be cropped in its frame. Auto-layout arranges photos you added. It does not create images.

## Layouts

Spreads use the layouts from the template. You can swap the layout on a spread and swap which photo sits in a frame.

## Text and colors

You can change text, point text at a color in the active palette, set a page background color, and switch the book's font pairing. Pairings are chosen from the fonts already defined for the template.

## Pages

You can insert, reorder, and delete spreads. Destructive edits can save a checkpoint first, and you can list versions and restore one.

**TODO:** This page lists what the book APIs support. The click paths in the live editor (where each control sits) were not checked against the running app.