Merging two Aperture Books

I have tried following all the directions I could find.  Let's call my book files Book1 and Book 2.  I exported Book2 to my mac as "book as library"  This appears to work.   I then highlight Book1 and choose Import library.  I end up with a book called Book2 (1) which is a duplicate of Book2.
Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a way to merge two different books?

Am I doing something wrong?  Is there a way to merge two different books?
It is simply not possible. You can merge two Aperture libraries and move the photos from one book to another, but you cannot move the pages you played out to a different book.
As a work-around you could print one book to PFD or JPEG and then simply add the JPEGS as full page images to the book, but the quality would suffer.
For a full-quality merge, add the photos from the second book to the first, and then copy and paste all texts from the first to the second.

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