When it comes time to split your ebooks, there is the ultra-super-easy way and the slightly trickier way. Once sorted by name, scroll down until you find EpubMerge and EpubSplit, like so:

Click on the Plugin Name column to sort by name and make locating our two plugins easier. The User Plugins menu is, by default, sorted by the date the plugin was added to/updated in the database. Within Calibre, navigate to the plugin menu by clicking Preferences ->Get plugins to enhance calibre, as seen in the screenshot above. 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.

For this tutorial you’ll need the following things:

Calibre e books