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Originally Posted by bigpallooka
I thought the OP's question was simply phrased (unless the question was edited between your answers and my reading of the thread). The question wasn't how to combine pdf files into a single file or how to convert the multiple pdf's into an ebook with unbroken bookmarks. The question was how to make calibre recognise a folder or directory as a single book. Can it be done without manipulating the actual files with calibre's conversion facility or a third party application? I actually have the same issue with an encyclopaedia.
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He asked specifically about a folder full of pdf files. I gave him the only answer to his problem I know of - turn it into a book, or add the books as-is. Calibre recognizes books and a folder full of pdfs isn't a pdf book. Calibre won't do anything with it until it's converted into a book that a pdf reader will treat as such. There are a fair number of book-like programs sold on CD/DVD that keep data in individual pdfs and supply a front end program for searching and accessing them. They also aren't books that Calibre can handle.
As for third party tools, pdf editors will create books from folders full of individual pdf files. I'm not aware of any that keep the bookmarks of individual pdfs, but it's not an area I've looked at closely.
(It wouldn't surprise me if PDF Portfolio kept them, but that type of pdf is not supported by Calibre or most other pdf editors.)