Advice needed for choosing the right software for a large set of PDF journals.

[Skyhawk777]

I have been keeping a daily journal.  Each day's entry is approximately 5 pages in length.  When each day's journal is completed I save it as a PDF 1.5 (US Letter, Portrait, 216 × 279 mm).  I have over 6 years of these journal entries. 

I would like to organize each year into a journal book form for printing.  I would also like an eBook for each journal also.  I was hoping to organize each year's journal into 12 chapters (each month of that year would be a chapter).  Ideally, it would be nice to have sub-chapters (daily entries).  So year's journal book would be around 2,000 pages in length.  My computer is running Linux Mint (based on Ubuntu).

What would you recommend I use to do this?  Would Scribus be a good tool, or would another software be better?  Thank you in advance for helping me with this.         

[PatJr]

I don't really understand the situation here, the journal is written in scribus and exported to pdf and you don't save the sla file? All you have is the pdf?
Maybe pdfshuffler would do what you want?

[Nermander]

I would use a PDF handling tool to combine the PDFs. Maybe first create one PDF per month. And them combine these into a book for a year, potentially also including some newly created pages.

The biggest issue with this solution is the page numbering, if you want consecutive page numbering it will probably be a pain to do this using PDFs.

Sure, Scribus can import PDFs, but you will probably have to manually delete the page number from each page after import.

[Skyhawk777]

I don't really understand the situation here, the journal is written in scribus and exported to pdf and you don't save the sla file? All you have is the pdf?
Maybe pdfshuffler would do what you want?

I wasn't clear, sorry.  I did not write these PDF documents in Scribus.  I am hoping to find the best way to organize and assemble these 6 years of daily PDF journal entries into a book form (or a set of books).  There are over 8,000 pages in 8.5x11 portrait format.  I thought that perhaps it would be ideal to make each year a book volume with 12 chapters (a chapter for each month).  I'd like to have the ability to print each volume in hardcopy (a book volume for each year).  I would also like to have it organized into an Ebook format that could be read (like in an ebook reader like Calibre).  I would like each page numbered for each book volume and create a table of contents.  Ideally it would be nice to have sub-chapters for each daily entry and a table of contents.