I gave up and use Microsoft Word

I gave up using Adobe Indesign. It is of course much more powerful at layout but its support of functions useful for writers (such as spell check or thesaurus) are pitiful. It assumes that writers and text layout editors are different people. I am the writer and layout editor of my textbook, so as a writer, Adobe Indesign was not for me.

Word on the other hand has many drawbacks, but if you create each page of your book in a seperate Word document, then it is possible to layout your book in a fairly professional way. Here are a few pages from my book created using Microsoft Word.