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Originally Posted by DNSB
Personally, I use the EpubMerge plugin for calibre to merge epubs into a single volume. It does some funky stuff such as putting the book files and stylesheets for each book in a subdirectory so each book has access to it's CSS but that is more or less necessary.
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Oh nice. I think I installed that plugin. Haven't gotten around to looking at it closely yet. I didn't realize that it compartmentalizes individual books into subfolders like that, which strikes me as a good idea if you're dealing with a lot of content.
Are you retaining separate stylesheets for each book just because it's easier that way, or because you prefer to style the books differently? My plan has been to use pretty much the same styling for all the books using my own style guide, which is based on elements from the source book, previous editions of said book, general best practices, and my own preferences.
My current approach:
1. Export original book to DOCX, convert DOCX to GDOC
2. Reformat in GDOC, export GDOC to Markdown
3. Remove stuff like XHTML comments from Markdown and clean up/fix structure & formatting
4. Import Markdown into empty Calibre book
5. Check structure & formatting again, add image files, clean up CSS
6. Merge into master Omnibus document