Using Pages for e-books - am I doing something wrong here?

Hi!
I wrote 5 e-books with a total of around 1.500 pages in Pages. Great program
Now I wanted to apply a template but in a mix og horror and frustration, I'm not sure if I got all this wrong.
Can't I apply a template on a document already written? I bought a template with 10-12 different page setups, looking really nice.
It's like I can only add new pages and move my text to them, page by page and I'm NOT going to do that with 1.500+ pages :s
Am I doing this wrong? Is Pages the wrong choise for this?
If not, what program would be the one to use for setting up my books?
Thanks in advance for any feedback

Pages templates do not work in this way, they have fairly poor templating and styling methods.
If it is simply a matter of styling a lot of word processing you could open the previous work in Pages *Word Processing mode* and replace each style with an edited version of itself. Replacing colors is not so easy and layout extremely difficult.
Pages does not have the efficient keyboard methods of applying styles, that more capable DTP packages have. So applying the styles is tedious.
Even with styling unless you had been extremely careful dividing your paragraph, character and list styles you will likely have a lot of manual work to do. Pages does not have a method that I know of to show unstyled text that would drop through the cracks of any changes.
If you did the previous work in *Layout mode*, you may as well start from scratch, there would be too much manual adjustments etc to make it worthwhile.
To get the sophisticated updating of firstly styled text, you would need a DTP program that allows direct exchange of styles. To have the ability to change layout you really would need Adobe InDesign.
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