In order to use the plugins, we need to first install them. The heart of our workflow here, Calibre itself aside, is a pair of plugins contributed to the Calibre plugin database by JimmXinu. If the files you wish to work with are currently DRM-laden, you’ll need to strip the DRM before you begin manipulating them. You can easily convert your books from another format into ePub format using Calibre (and then, when finished merging or splitting, convert them from ePub back to the original format). Second, this technique relies on the structure of the ePub format.
RELATED: How To Organize Your Ebook Collection with Calibre For the purposes of this tutorial, we’re assuming you’ve already installed Calibre and added the books you wish to work with. Check out our introduction to Calibre here. DRM-free ebooks, in ePub format, you wish to merge or splitįirst, although you don’t need to be intimately familiar with Calibre to follow along with our tutorial, it wouldn’t hurt to familiarize yourself with the application.A copy of free ebook management software Calibre.What Do I Need?įor this tutorial you’ll need the following things: Regardless of your motivation, today’s tutorial shows you how to merge and split the painless way without all the headache of mucking around in the guts of an ebook where you can easily wreck the markup language and render your book corrupt.
Perhaps you break up a massive anthology into small pieces, combine collections of poetry into a mega volume, or create one big master copy of every single Robert Heinlein book so you can use the progress tracking meter on your ebook reader to see exactly how far you’ve progressed in working your way through his entire life work. There’s all manner of motivations for wanting to split or combine ebooks in your collection.