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Originally Posted by Wendy Wolfe
(follow-up question from a non-pro...)
I'm using the Calibre editor to write a "family recipes" EPUB. Eventually, it will be KindleGen'd to a side-loadable mobi for my Kindle-centric extended family.
Reading this thread made me realize that if I go the pagebreak-after-each-recipe route... I'll have more than 500 files in the final EPUB (last recipe count was approx 500 & one file per means a lot of files). Oh my.
Also, it is going to be a challange to work with in the "Files Browser" because it seems that I can't organize the kazillion text files into subfolders. (More on this at the end of this note.)
Do any of the EPUB editors allow for a directory structure to organize the "text" files?
Or is this just the reality of dealing with this kind of EPUB?
Thanks
Sidenote:
Interestingly, the Calibre editor allows me to place "text" files into subfolders (text/xxx.html, text/sub/yyy.html, text/sub/ggg.html are all valid). I played around a bit & everything seems to work fine. I assume that there's a reason why the UI doesn't detect/surface the organization. It would be a rather nice feature of v.large books.)
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You can set up any kind of structure you would like for ePub. Some editors are limited in what they support but as you have found out the Calibre editor does not. There is only one hard coded file and it is used to find the starting point for all of the rest.
Every text (xhtml) file does start a new page in your book. There are other ways to have page changes. Most readers load one file at a time into RAM but some load the entire book.
Dale