Lightroom Photobook issue - undoing a saved book?

I am using Lightroom 4.3.   I am using it on a PC.   In the past, I have used Blurb booksmart to make a photobook.   However, since Lightroom 4 offered it, I decided to make a photobook within Lightroom. Before starting, I put my photos in a Collection set which contained multiple collections in order of the what I wished to appear in the photobook. I started populating the photobook from the collection set.   As I was finishing for the day, I did not know whether it should be saved or not.   So I saved it under "create saved book".   It saved it as a book. By the way, I did not know where to save the photobook so I saved it within the collection set.
I then went back to the collection set and suddenly something was happening.   Afterward, I noted that the auto layout was putting this collection into a photobook, plus all the other collections within the collection set.   I do not now seem to be able to undo it.   Also every collection is locked into a separate photobook - though an unsaved version.   I now do not seem able to access the photos in the collection set.
After saving my original photobook which was not complete, I had wanted to go into the rest of the collection folders within the collection set and continue to populate the photobook with the photos.   However, I do not seem to be able to finish the original photobook as after the auto layyout, each of the collections are now in the initial stages of being a photobook themselves.
Can anyone help me please.
Nora Finn

Gidday
I had the same problem - and eventually worked out a pretty simple answer! :-)
You'll see a folderfor your saved book, which will indicate the number of images stored with it. In Library mode, just drag the additional images to the book folder and you'll see the number increase accordingly.
It's pretty smart too - and doesn't seem to duplicate images if you drag an existing image into the book folder.
Regards
S

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