Adding multiple files to a Calibre e-book (anthology)

[Trollheart]

Hi guys.
I'm trying to add a bunch of short stories to a Calibre e-book so that they will all be in the one anthology I can read. But I'm having serious trouble adding any of them. I can create one book, but then adding others to it seems problematical. I know I did this before, but I just can't remember how, so any help in adding, and also creating a working TOC assuming I get them added, would be very much appreciated.

Thanks for any help.
Trollheart.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

Hi guys.
I'm trying to add a bunch of short stories to a Calibre e-book so that they will all be in the one anthology I can read. But I'm having serious trouble adding any of them. I can create one book, but then adding others to it seems problematical. I know I did this before, but I just can't remember how, so any help in adding, and also creating a working TOC assuming I get them added, would be very much appreciated.

Thanks for any help.
Trollheart.

Try the EpubMerge plugin and see how you get on.

[Trollheart]

It's okay; it finally came to me, and thanks for the reply. What I need to do is put all the documents in one, then use H1 headers to mark each separate story, like the chapters in a book. The system then recognises each H1 header and assigns it, or it can be assigned, a place on the TOC which enables me to go directly to that story.

Thanks again. I knew it was possible, just could not remember how I did it.
TH

[Jaws]

Originally Posted by Trollheart

It's okay; it finally came to me, and thanks for the reply. What I need to do is put all the documents in one, then use H1 headers to mark each separate story, like the chapters in a book. The system then recognises each H1 header and assigns it, or it can be assigned, a place on the TOC which enables me to go directly to that story.

Thanks again. I knew it was possible, just could not remember how I did it.
TH

This is something I've had to do a lot of over the years. The main stumbling block is often internal filenames -- especially cover.jpg/.jpeg/.svg, stylesheet.css, and page_styles.css. If any/all of them are under that name in more than one component of the anthology, some readers and some conversions can muck up the references, so that story x's stylesheets end up controlling the entire anthology. This can be problematic for automatically-named styles (e.g., calibre_7) that aren't necessarily even referring to the same type of element.

If you're not going to go to the effort of preestablishing all of the file and style names before adding anything to the anthology (admittedly an annoyance), at least change the filenames in the epub you're about to add in before you actually add it in so that they're unique.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Jaws

This is something I've had to do a lot of over the years. The main stumbling block is often internal filenames -- especially cover.jpg/.jpeg/.svg, stylesheet.css, and page_styles.css. If any/all of them are under that name in more than one component of the anthology, some readers and some conversions can muck up the references, so that story x's stylesheets end up controlling the entire anthology. This can be problematic for automatically-named styles (e.g., calibre_7) that aren't necessarily even referring to the same type of element.

If you're not going to go to the effort of preestablishing all of the file and style names before adding anything to the anthology (admittedly an annoyance), at least change the filenames in the epub you're about to add in before you actually add it in so that they're unique.

In an omnibus, you are best to use one stylesheet so you can use the same classes in each story so you can keep the formatting consistent. If you have to edit each story so they use the same formatting so be it.