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Originally Posted by Elissa Malcohn
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll definitely consider it.
Would an Omnibus e-edition simply involve appending the files (and cleaning up frontmatter redundancies)?
If so, I'd want to include a linked TOC, to allow readers to skip down to the individual volumes. Currently I take my HTML files, convert them in Mobipocket to PRC (seems to produce smaller files than when I go through Calibre), and then use PRC as my root file in Calibre for converting to EPUB, LIT, LRF, and MOBI. (For some reason, Mobipocket doesn't always convert to MOBI for me.) I use the HANDebooks macro for PDB.
I assume the a href and a name tags would work in HTML, but am not sure how well they would convert. I know they wouldn't in PDB, but I don't know if any other TOC method would work there. Any advice and suggestions are much appreciated!
Thanks again -- Elissa
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As far as cleaning up the front matter I don't really know. You can make some corrections to text I think though most of what I've done in the past is things like removing the disclaimer from the Gutenberg files and the original table of contents that some seem to have (as raw HTML files I mean).
Well I'm not sure exactly how to create the linked TOC at the moment. I did ask some questions elsewhere on the board about it, but I was never able to figure out how to have the main TOC (book titles) and a secondary one for the chapters of each volume (I have created some simple Omnibus volumes before). I loaded the HTML files of the seperate books into a Sigil file to create an epub version and then converted the epub into a mobipocket file that is then compatible with Kindle. The ones I created would have one large TOC with the h2 tag (through Sigil) as the book titles and then h3 tags as chapter links. The Edgar Allen Poe Omnibus here at MR is an example of that as is the two volume collection of Zane Grey's books. And Sigil like Calibre is free software. You can also add jpeg pics via Sigil too so you can easily put in your own Cover Image for such collections.