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Old 11-30-2014, 07:11 AM   #1
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Creating an anthology from individual short stories?
Is there an easy way to combine several "books" (actually short stories) into a single book?

I could of course convert EPUBs to RTFs, mess around with Word, and convert the result back again... but since the editor does everything expect bring me my cup of coffee in the morning, I assume there's a better way that I haven't discovered yet...?
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Old 11-30-2014, 07:53 AM   #2
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Is there an easy way to combine several "books" (actually short stories) into a single book?
Have you tried the Merge Epub plugin? It does what you describe exactly.

BTW, it is available in the main calibre, not the editor.
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Great, thanks!
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I've only used the Merge PI a few times and it does work as advertised: the selected and arranged files are merged into a single epub.

What I do to each of the epubs before merging is to make sure that

1. The files are arranged into folders

2. The text, style, and images file names in each are unique. I usually use a 01-, 02-, prefix for the first, second, etc. epub.

My experience is that if the epubs have the same file name then the PI generated a file name which I find confusing. Might not bother others

The PI also has some nice configuration options that you can us to 'tune' the result to your liking
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