[kiwidude]

Originally Posted by BeccaPrice

some books I'm seeing the message that reads "no mobi or epub file found, or no file on Goodreads" (or words to that effect) when I click the "get from Goodreads" option.

I've found that, for most of these books, the magic ritual is to convert mobi-to-mobi, and then run the plugin a second time. Then - mostly - I'll get a page count from Goodreads.

I'm afraid you again haven't given me much to go on. In the error dialog that appears, clicking on the "Show details" will show exactly why each book was rejected. I need specific details, exactly what options you have configured for this plugin (a screenshot of the config page will do or the plugin json configuration file contents). What options you chose. What formats the book had at the time. Any and all log/error output.

Also make sure you are running the very latest version - by any chance did you install the beta which did have a bug in this area? Make sure you install the plugin again (ignore that the version numbers will show the same, I didn't change them for final release) and restart calibre.

I can't believe that The Outlaws by Griffin has 652 pages, and no Goodreads id to get a more accurate page count.

If you don't have a goodreads id for the book, the plugin has no ability to download a page count so you will only be able to get the estimated count option. I'm not quite sure what your point is here. If the book has an edition on goodreads with a page count, then link to it and the lugin can download the count for it.

Interestingly, for Soul Music, the estiimate page count came up with 400+ pages, and when I got the data from Goodreads, the count was 288, which is far more reasonable. I've noticed this for other books, that the estimate is way higher than the actual page count. Do I have the plugin configured wrong somehow?

This has been discussed numerous times throughout the thread. There is no "one number" which indicates the page count for a book. Even if you use this plugin's ability to download from goodreads, you will see for most books that there are a large number of editions, and most will vary in page counts. Sometimes extremely significantly. Some would have been large print editions, differences between paperback and hardback, quite possibly data entry errors, you name it. So there is absolutely no point in trying to extrapolate between the differences. In fact when switching editions it is difficult at times (because the printed editions vary so widely) to decide which one to pick.

I chose to create a new page count column that I populate alonside the estimated count as I transition to using Goodreads based. For the most part the estimates (based on ePub for me) are in the right ballpark. For an at a glance idea as to whether one book is significantly larger than another, they do their job.

However word count is a better indication of the size of the book and personally is the only column I have visible, though as I say I populate page count for Kindle usage. However even word count just like page count can get "fooled", by books containing previes of upcoming books, special editions containing extras, interviews etc.