03-08-2010, 06:00 PM | #1 |
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Can ePubs be merged?
Is there any software that allows easy merging of multiple ePubs into a single ePub? (Bookmarking by original title would be nice, but isn't necessary.)
I'd like to take multiple short stories from Feedbooks & combine them into a single file so I don't have dozens of "books" cluttering my Reader interface. Right now, I'm downloading in PDF because I can combine those easily; I'd prefer to read ePub, but don't know if it's possible to combine them without unzipping & weird code-tweaking. If there's a relatively simple manual way to build a combined ePub, that'd be okay too. |
03-11-2010, 07:26 PM | #2 |
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No simple way, since every ePub has both a table of contents file (toc.ncx) - and an index file (content.opf)... the first would take a bit of time... but the latter of which has a playlist, which would be incredibly irritating to re-order. Rename an epub as a zip and take a look... You'll agree it's probably not worth the effort...
Edit: I just realized the number of your posts. You're unlikely to be a n00b... but even in creating my own ePub's I was frustrated whenever I had to go into either of these files. I'm sure a program could be created to merge ePubs but again, it's probably not worth the effort... And yeah, I'm sure you're not the only one who thinks these authors need to compile their short-stories into actual books. Last edited by darkpoet; 03-11-2010 at 07:31 PM. |
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Damn. Will have to stick with PDFs, which are much easier for me to combine. Annoying, 'cos Feedbooks ePubs get cover pictures, and the PDFs don't. So I download the PDF, open the ePub & save out the cover pic, then replace the first page of the PDF with the cover image. Quote:
It's not always single authors; I sometimes collect multiple stories on a theme and would rather combine them into a single file (Right now, it's the DC2 series of fan-made comic-book stories.) Would like to be able to create collections for my kids--"30 short stories about cats and dragons"--but it looks like doing so for ePub is a while off yet. |
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03-11-2010, 10:48 PM | #4 |
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This is probably more work than you meant to do, but you can use Calibre to bulk-convert to RTF. Merge the RTF manually but trivially in Word, add trivial table of contents in Word, save and convert the merged RTF back to Calibre.
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03-11-2010, 11:09 PM | #5 |
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using some simple find/replace, and copy/paste, it'd be mostly trivial to merge some well-designed e-pubs. I'm well-designing some e-pubs in a series now with exactly that in mind.
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03-11-2010, 11:22 PM | #6 |
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There's a similiar request/suggestion here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74581 |
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While I'm willing to manually merge 20 source documents in Word, I only do so when I've got no other way of getting the content. In this case, since I'm working from Feedbooks, I can have it output in Sony-sized PDFs with my choice of font & point sizes. I have to manually place the covers in, but that's still faster than the copy-paste-format hassles in Word. But it's good to know that's possible, because I get epubs from a lot of different sites; I may want to deconstruct & reformat them. |
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03-12-2010, 06:44 PM | #10 |
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Personally I'd like to see Valloric add this functionality to Sigil eventually.
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