Spanish to English book translation
AI translation, checked passage by passage. Upload your book — epub, mobi, fb2, docx, txt or pdf — and see the exact price and a free translated sample of your own book before you pay anything. Every passage is translated, then read again against your original, and translated again wherever that check finds a problem.
Your translation comes back as an epub, the most stable format. Word, Kindle and PDF are available at download.
From a classic, translated by this pipeline
The opening of Don Quijote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated Spanish → English by the same pipeline that will translate your book. Nobody polished this by hand.
Spanish original
Our English translation
En un lugar de la Mancha, de cuyo nombre no quiero acordarme, no ha mucho tiempo que vivía un hidalgo de los de lanza en astillero, adarga antigua, rocín flaco y galgo corredor. Una olla de algo más vaca que carnero, salpicón las más noches, duelos y quebrantos los sábados, lantejas los viernes, algún palomino de añadidura los domingos, consumían las tres partes de su hacienda.
In a place in La Mancha, whose name I have no wish to recall, there lived not long ago a hidalgo of the sort who keep a lance in its rack, an old leather shield, a lean nag and a swift greyhound. A stew made of rather more beef than mutton, salpicón most nights, "eggs and bacon" on Saturdays, lentils on Fridays, and a young pigeon by way of extra on Sundays, consumed three-quarters of his estate.
What a faithful English edition must get right
Spanish raya dialogue becomes English quotation marks, with the same single or double style used through the whole book.
Words tied to the culture — an hidalgo, a tortilla, a plaza — each get one decision: translate it, keep it, or keep it with a short explanation. The decision is written in the brief, so chapter twenty agrees with chapter one.
Spanish sentences can run much longer than English ones. We keep the author's rhythm instead of cutting their prose into short pieces they never wrote.
Before translation starts, we build a translator's brief from your whole book: names, terms, tone, typography. You read it and can change it. The brief then guides every chapter. Each passage is read again, independently, against your original, and translated again where that check finds a problem. The finished book gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change goes into your quality report.
What it costs
A normal 80,000-word novel from Spanish to English costs about $10.99 (Standard) or $20.99 (Premium). Your exact price is counted from your own book — we open it and count every word before quoting — and you see that price, and the free sample, before you pay anything. Prices for other book sizes.
Questions
How much does it cost to translate a book from Spanish to English?
From $6.99; a typical 80,000-word novel is about $10.99 on Standard. The exact price is computed from your actual book and shown before you pay — never after.Can I see the quality before paying?
Yes — an excerpt from the middle of your own book, translated and reviewed free, with a report of what the review changed. You judge on your book, not a marketing demo.What formats do you take, and what do I get back?
epub, mobi, azw, azw3, fb2, txt, docx or pdf in; a finished epub back, with Word, Kindle and PDF conversions on the download page. Layout, images and formatting are preserved.How is the translation checked?
Every passage is translated following a book-specific translator's brief, then independently re-read against your original; whatever that check flags is re-translated and checked again. The finished book then gets one whole-book read for continuity. Every change becomes your quality report.British or American English?
Your choice. Spelling and punctuation style are written in the translator's brief that you read before translation starts.What happens to my book files?
Never used for AI training, never published, auto-deleted after 30 days by a storage lifecycle policy.Also: English to Spanish · English to Russian · English to German · English to French · English to Portuguese · English to Romanian · English to Chinese (Simplified) · English to Japanese · English to Italian · English to Polish · English to Ukrainian — every language we translate, or pick any pair on the home page.