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Adoby · 12-31-2019, 06:20 AM

I add a extra book to calibre. With the same cover, author and title, but with the addition " - supplemental files" to the title. And the supplemental files are in the form of a zip file. That way I don't risk the original file at all. And I am more likely to notice that there are supplemental files available.

I suspect that you could manually edit a epub and add the supplemental files into the epub, and possibly save them from inside the epub when reading. I suspect epub3 might allow this? I don't think calibre supports this. Or any of my ebook reader software. But it might be a nice feature.

12-31-2019, 06:20 AM	#3
Adoby Handy Elephant Posts: 1,737 Karma: 26785684 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Southern Sweden, far out in the quiet woods Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra	I add a extra book to calibre. With the same cover, author and title, but with the addition " - supplemental files" to the title. And the supplemental files are in the form of a zip file. That way I don't risk the original file at all. And I am more likely to notice that there are supplemental files available. I suspect that you could manually edit a epub and add the supplemental files into the epub, and possibly save them from inside the epub when reading. I suspect epub3 might allow this? I don't think calibre supports this. Or any of my ebook reader software. But it might be a nice feature. Last edited by Adoby; 12-31-2019 at 06:23 AM.