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sumguy · 03-24-2013, 01:17 AM

hi all, thanks for your replies...

Dopedangel, at first I used SoftSnow Merger to merge the html files, but I still had all the previous/next page navigation links etc., and it was really a pain to try to get rid of them and have the pages join up to each other, mainly because everything is inside a complicated structure of html tables. Anyway I'll give vHtmlMerger a try and see if it makes it any easier. I've never used Sigil, was kind of hoping to be able to do it in Calibre without having to learn a whole 'nother app...

DoctorOhh, theducks is right, I did follow the info in that section of the faq correctly. I created "another HTML file that contains links to all the other files in the desired order". Usually that's for when you have a book with each chapter in a separate html file. But in this case, the original book I have is a folder with 297 html files, one for every page. I created an html table of contents with a link to each file, just as in the example. So I ended up with this table of contents, with 297 entries in it, at the beginning of the book.

That's exactly what I expected to happen. It just isn't a very optimal solution, to have this 15-page table of contents with an entry for every page in it. I mean it does work. I was just wondering if there's a way I could then edit that table of contents html, after it had been imported into calibre. I tried unzipping the zip and editing it, and zipping it again, but then it was unhappy and wouldn't convert to mobi anymore... well, if you have a suggestion of some other way I should be making this index, I'm happy to hear it.

I did try making an html table of contents for only the pages of the beginnings of chapters. Calibre did bring in a bunch of other pages (not sure if it was all of them) but they were all mixed up, in the wrong order. I also tried the "breadth first" setting, didn't help.

theducks, I'm not sure how to go about trying your idea. I'm assuming you mean the chapter detection in the heuristic processing. But I'm still stuck at how to get all the html pages into Calibre in the first place, in the right order, without making this huge table of contents by hand...

Well, maybe I'll try some more experiments if I have time tomorrow, thanks again!

03-24-2013, 01:17 AM	#6
sumguy Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 1186 Join Date: Jun 2012 Device: none	hi all, thanks for your replies... Dopedangel, at first I used SoftSnow Merger to merge the html files, but I still had all the previous/next page navigation links etc., and it was really a pain to try to get rid of them and have the pages join up to each other, mainly because everything is inside a complicated structure of html tables. Anyway I'll give vHtmlMerger a try and see if it makes it any easier. I've never used Sigil, was kind of hoping to be able to do it in Calibre without having to learn a whole 'nother app... DoctorOhh, theducks is right, I did follow the info in that section of the faq correctly. I created "another HTML file that contains links to all the other files in the desired order". Usually that's for when you have a book with each chapter in a separate html file. But in this case, the original book I have is a folder with 297 html files, one for every page. I created an html table of contents with a link to each file, just as in the example. So I ended up with this table of contents, with 297 entries in it, at the beginning of the book. That's exactly what I expected to happen. It just isn't a very optimal solution, to have this 15-page table of contents with an entry for every page in it. I mean it does work. I was just wondering if there's a way I could then edit that table of contents html, after it had been imported into calibre. I tried unzipping the zip and editing it, and zipping it again, but then it was unhappy and wouldn't convert to mobi anymore... well, if you have a suggestion of some other way I should be making this index, I'm happy to hear it. I did try making an html table of contents for only the pages of the beginnings of chapters. Calibre did bring in a bunch of other pages (not sure if it was all of them) but they were all mixed up, in the wrong order. I also tried the "breadth first" setting, didn't help. theducks, I'm not sure how to go about trying your idea. I'm assuming you mean the chapter detection in the heuristic processing. But I'm still stuck at how to get all the html pages into Calibre in the first place, in the right order, without making this huge table of contents by hand... Well, maybe I'll try some more experiments if I have time tomorrow, thanks again! Last edited by sumguy; 03-24-2013 at 01:21 AM.