Last time I edited an ebook with over 100 stylesheets, they were identical and short. All the real styling was done using a mix of styles declared at the start of each text file and inline styles.
Here's what there were 173 stylesheets worth of:
Code:
@page {
padding: 0pt;
margin: 0pt;
}
body {
text-align: justify;
padding: 0pt;
margin: 0pt;
}