How to handle a VERY large ebook?

[ekbell]

Originally Posted by Jochen K.

I would - if I could find a download link on
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de
AFAIK you can only "Select all - copy" Chapter by chapter and "build" a book that way.... Thanks for making me re-think: some of the books have dozens of chapters, but some only have three or four; at least the latter would easily be handled in Gutenberg.

If you have an iphone or ipad the app web2book pro can be very useful for converting multiple webpages into one epub.

It doesn't handle internal links or images but it does a tidy job of converting webpages into chapters of a book with the option of removing any unwanted material. It's not the most intuitive app to use but the help videos are actually helpful.

Or you could trying using dotEPUB to convert individual webpages to epubs and then the calibre plugin ePubMerge to put them together.

[Doitsu]

Originally Posted by Jochen K.

It's Karl May, Saemtliche Werke (300+ titles).
It seems I'll have to visit this forum more often; I had no idea that there were ANY books here at Mobileread.

Many German Karl May books are already available as standalone MR epubs. For details, see the Tabellenübersicht der deutschen eBooks.

If the book that you're looking for is not on the list, there are several methods to convert gutenberg.de books to epubs:

Online converter

Offline converter

[Jochen K.]

Originally Posted by QuantumIguana

You can download a DVD image with tends of thousands of Project Gutenberg books, and have them as individual files.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenb...nd_DVD_Project

Thanks - that's great information; I'll certainly do that, though for my current "problem" it probably won't help, as http://www.gutenberg.org only has a handful of his titles, so the DVD will likely be the same.

[Jochen K.]

Originally Posted by Doitsu

Many German Karl May books are already available as standalone MR epubs. For details, see the Tabellenübersicht der deutschen eBooks.

If the book that you're looking for is not on the list, there are several methods to convert gutenberg.de books to epubs:

Online converter

Offline converter

Great, thanks; I'll try out all three options when I'll have the time over Carnival.

[QuantumIguana]

Originally Posted by Jochen K.

Thanks - that's great information; I'll certainly do that, though for my current "problem" it probably won't help, as http://www.gutenberg.org only has a handful of his titles, so the DVD will likely be the same.

I downloaded it, and it had over 20,000 books.

[Jochen K.]

Thanks, folks!

I'm currently on "vacation" (over the Carnival weekend - until Tuesday - just about everything in Cologne is closed, except, of course, for pubs, bars, restaurants...), and with your helpful advice I could extract all those titles that appear interesting.