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Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8
Thanks. I figured that that would work, but I don't have the patience. ha
On a similar subject . . . . Sometimes I see free ebooks posted, but the posters break the book down into chapters, for instance (I feel sure that they do that to prevent the very thing that I'm about to mention). I had been wanting to find a way to combine all of those segments into a whole book again. I finally found a way to do basically that, but it is a little bit time-consuming. Not nearly as time-consuming as it would be to translate a book using Google Translate, though.
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If they're web-based, I use a DotEpub bookmarklet to convert each chapter into an Epub eBook. Then I load the chapters into a portable version of Calibre and use the Epub Merge plugin to make them one book. Edit them a bit with Calibre's built-in Epub editor (mainly to add a cover and delete the extraneous crap the DotEpub thing adds to each chapter) and I have a book. Which I then transfer to my main Calibre library. You don't have to use portable Calibre for this, I just find it neater since I can leave stuff in it to work on later.
If they're in Epub format, I skip the part turning them into Epubs. And if they're another format, I just convert them to Epub first, then do the rest.
This takes less time than it sounds like it would most of the time. If something goes horribly wrong in the initial conversion to Epub it can take a long time. I probably should look into a better Epub book editor.