Workflow for creating articles

As I'm sure many of you have experienced, splitting a multi-page magazine and making each individual page its own InDesign document in order to build a FOLIO file is just a major headache. I'm doing this for a client who wants his publication on every single device that DPS reaches who also wants both orientations. So 40 pages for the iPad landscape, 40 pages for the iPad Portrait, 40 pages for Android and Kindle Fire, 40 pages for each iPhone... this is not fun.
My workflow is that I create a whole document with 40 pages first in the resolution I want. For instance 1024 x 768 for the iPad. Then I save each page as its own InDesign document with eiter _h or _v after the filename. I have 240 different documents for the iPhone, 80 different for the iPad - that's 320 InDesign files for one book that the client wants in dual orientation. I'm sticking to the 1024 x 768 resolution for the iPad 3 because the files are a high resolution and for the Android/Amazon devices because 1024 x 768 will work with them, it'll just be letterboxed, which is fine.
Is there a better way to do this? I'm pulling out the remaining hairs on my head!

Keep building you're magazine as one single indesign document and then use Badia Exportools Standard (http://exportools.badiasoftware.com/selections/) to export each page as an indivdual indesign document, there is a small cost invovled ($59.99 USD) with Exportools but its worth the investment, Exportools has a really good renaming feature. I use this apporach and it saves me TONS of headaches and especially time. Good luck!

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