Make Multiple Copies of a Book?

[enuddleyarbl]

SOLVED: To make a copy of a book, select the source book in the library, go to Add Books and select (oddly) "Add Empty Book (Book Entry with No Formats)." On the resulting dialog, enter the information you want and, down at the bottom, select "Also copy book formats when duplicating book." Hit the "Duplicate Current Book" button. That does it.

OP: I guess I've lost my mind. I want to split an epub3 compendium into its component books. EpubSplit works only with epub2. I know I did this once before where somehow I told Calibre to copy a book, then I edited each copy to delete the stuff I didn't want. I'm pretty sure it was at the Calibre Library level. I swear it asked me something like which formats to copy and how many copies I wanted. But, I can't find that function any more. Any ideas?

[Comfy.n]

Originally Posted by enuddleyarbl

SOLVED: To make a copy of a book, select the source book in the library, go to Add Books and select (oddly) "Add Empty Book (Book Entry with No Formats)." On the resulting dialog, enter the information you want and, down at the bottom, select "Also copy book formats when duplicating book." Hit the "Duplicate Current Book" button. That does it.

OP: I guess I've lost my mind. I want to split an epub3 compendium into its component books. EpubSplit works only with epub2. I know I did this once before where somehow I told Calibre to copy a book, then I edited each copy to delete the stuff I didn't want. I'm pretty sure it was at the Calibre Library level. I swear it asked me something like which formats to copy and how many copies I wanted. But, I can't find that function any more. Any ideas?

15 years at least using this software and I'm still caught by surprise every now and then, lol.

I'm used to opening the book dir and re-adding it when I want to duplicate. Ctrl+Shift+E is a good alternative now.

(In that case of Epubsplit, I would convert the EPUB3 to EPUB2 then do the splitting, though I never needed to split an EPUB3 and wasn't aware of this limitation)

[gbm]

To use EpubSplit with a epub3, open the epub3 with the editor, open content.opf file and then change version="3.0" to version="2.0".

<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" version="3.0"

<package xmlns="http://www.idpf.org/2007/opf" version="2.0"

Then save.


bernie

Originally Posted by enuddleyarbl

SOLVED: To make a copy of a book, select the source book in the library, go to Add Books and select (oddly) "Add Empty Book (Book Entry with No Formats)." On the resulting dialog, enter the information you want and, down at the bottom, select "Also copy book formats when duplicating book." Hit the "Duplicate Current Book" button. That does it.

OP: I guess I've lost my mind. I want to split an epub3 compendium into its component books. EpubSplit works only with epub2. I know I did this once before where somehow I told Calibre to copy a book, then I edited each copy to delete the stuff I didn't want. I'm pretty sure it was at the Calibre Library level. I swear it asked me something like which formats to copy and how many copies I wanted. But, I can't find that function any more. Any ideas?

[enuddleyarbl]

The problem with Converting is that I've already modified the books to my liking. Convert will replace all that with its own formatting.

Changing the content.opf to say epub 2.0 is interesting. According to the comments in the EpubSplit thread, it usually will handle epub 3 formatting fine. So, I was surprised when it flat-out wouldn't run on those books.

I think I'll just continue manually copying and editing, though. It's mostly a matter of deleting the chapters for the books I don't want in that copy. (EDIT: I also have to run Calibre's "Polish Books" tool as well as the Modify ePub plugin)

[kovidgoyal]

nevermind