[GUI Plugin] EpubMerge

[JimmXinu]

Ah--the problem isn't what I thought it was.

But I was able to figure it out; so thanks for posting these samples.

New version is up with a fix. It had to do with %20 escapes of spaces in file names in the content metadata file.

[cczichray]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Ah--the problem isn't what I thought it was.

But I was able to figure it out; so thanks for posting these samples.

New version is up with a fix. It had to do with %20 escapes of spaces in file names in the content metadata file.

JimmXinu: Thanks so much! The merged file looks great!

[JimmXinu]

For those who were looking for the opposite, EpubSplit is now available for beta testing.

[crich70]

Originally Posted by andyh2000

Now that is a very cool plugin - great for making anthologies or pasting together a daily newspaper from different sources. Thanks.

Andrew

I have to agree. I just found this plugin tonight and am trying it out. I remember asking if something like this was possible or not (through Sigil I think) a few yrs back. Nice to see programming has caught up with the idea in this Calibre plugin.

[JimmXinu]

Thanks, glad you like it.

[crich70]

I've found it very useful already. I have some PDF's that are by the same author and have found that by converting them into epub (via Calibre) I can then stitch them together into collections using the plug in. Then I just have to convert the new epub into a mobipocket/kindle ebook to read it on my Kindle 3.

[JimmXinu]

Version 1.2.0 - 27 Jul 2012
Options now stored inside the Library rather than an external JSON file.

[BaconButty]

Hi there,

I am using version 1.2.0 and am having trouble merging downloaded epubs from these fics:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7385951/...attered_Dreams
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8369929/...attered_Dreams

This error message appears:

Error message:
calibre, version 0.8.62
ERROR: Unhandled exception: <b>KeyError</b>:u'custom_cols'

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "calibre_plugins.epubmerge.dialogs", line 82, in do_loop
File "calibre_plugins.epubmerge.dialogs", line 91, in do_when_finished
File "calibre_plugins.epubmerge.epubmerge_plugin", line 208, in _start_merge
File "calibre_plugins.epubmerge.config", line 84, in __getitem__
File "site-packages\calibre\utils\config.py", line 359, in __getitem__
KeyError: u'custom_cols'

A new anthology listing appears in Calibre after exiting the error message, but it does not contain anything.

I have also overwritten the downloaded epubs and tried merging again, but the same error appears.

Any suggestion?

Thank you in advance.

[JimmXinu]

Version 1.2.1 - 28 Jul 2012
Allow for old JSON settings with only partial settings.

@BaconButty - I've released a new version that should address your issue. Please confirm that it works for you--assuming that it does.

(It's a corner case condition where you have an older set of saved configuration for the plugin that's not complete.)

As usual, there may be a delay before calibre notices the new version. You can get the latest by going in and telling calibre to install it again.

[BaconButty]

Originally Posted by JimmXinu

Version 1.2.1 - 28 Jul 2012
@BaconButty - I've released a new version that should address your issue. Please confirm that it works for you--assuming that it does.

Updated to version 1.2.1 - it worked!!

Thank you.

[Steven630]

Is there a similar tool for mobi ebooks?

[JimmXinu]

Not that I know of. Mobi format is much more difficult to work with due to it's proprietary nature.

[JSWolf]

ePub is just so much easier to deal with in most cases. Mobipocket is not all that easy to deal with.

[Steven630]

Thank you both.

I thought it would be similar. Too bad, I'm looking for a tool to merge news fetched by different Calibre recipes for my Kindle.

[JimmXinu]

You could fetch news in epub, merge, then convert to mobi. Calibre will automatically convert to mobi when writing books to Kindle.