Thread: I want to merge short mobi book files into a mega mobi file
View Single Post
Old 12-25-2011, 11:04 AM   #6
theducks
Well trained by Cats
theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.theducks ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
theducks's Avatar
 
Posts: 29,800
Karma: 54830978
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: The Central Coast of California
Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A
Quote:
Originally Posted by dwig View Post
If you take this approach you should edit the individual EPUB files prior to attempting to combine them. The major issue will be the CSS files.

The best approach is probably to use Sigil to rename the CSS files in each of the individual EPUBs so that they all have unique names. That way when the individual HTML components of the EPUBs are merged they can reference their own CSS files (which will also need to be added to the mega-EPUB) avoiding conflicts.
Actually, you need do no CSS work.
Sigil creates a separate CSS for each book imported (you can't turn it off,even if all books use the exact same CSS) renaming possible conflicts with existing CSS.
All you get is a slightly bigger file. (you can edit the reference in the book back to a common CSS if appropriate, and delete the extra CSS)
theducks is offline   Reply With Quote