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Old 04-06-2012, 02:51 AM   #369
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Originally Posted by OddCosine View Post
I'm using the word count plug-in in Calibre for the count. I'll have to estimate words for any DTBs I read. I made a spreadsheet to track my total and calculate my progress against where I should be on any given date. Very motivating. I'm about 200,000 words ahead of schedule so far.
Does anyone know of another easy method for getting word counts? I use Calibre only for books that I don't get from Amazon, so most of mine aren't in it.

Another reason I use page counts is because page counts are easy. Amazon has them for most books, even if there isn't a hardcopy, if they don't have one goodreads does a lot of the time, and for anything else (maybe 5% of my library), I can estimate page count based on the average locations/page from everything else.

Word counts are not as easy, and the ones I do get tend to be order of magnitude only (100,000 words exactly? I think not.) which are not as easy to estimate with.
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