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Originally Posted by kiwidude
Chapter count isn't an option as I mentioned to JimmXinu a while ago on another thread, as there is no definition inside an epub of what constitutes a chapter. You can't parse the content (chapters might be just numbers or images) and you can't use the TOC (it may or may not have chapters defined in it). To be honest I don't see any value in it as a statistic either - what does a "77" chapter James Patterson novel in comparison to a "10" chapter novel by someone else mean? To me personally it means absolutely nothing, because it comes down to the length of those chapters. Which in turn are more meaningfully represented by word counts and page counts...  |
Alright, that makes sense. And you're right, chapter count is not nearly as meaningful as word or page count.
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Originally Posted by kiwidude
As for your other request about not overwriting, something I have considered for a while is as per the screenshot below. This would allow you to run the various counts in isolation, rather than having an overwrite option. Unless anyone has any better suggestion this will be the UI for the next version...
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That's not bad and would be easier than the current way of doing things. However, you would still have to click the dropdown menu and the select the correct option to get what you want. If you had the overwrite-or-not option, you would only have to click the large icon of the plugin, which would then perform the correct procedure depending on what values are currently present. Of course, the best of both worlds would be having both your suggested UI and the overwrite-or-not option. This way, you could have the default option which works most of the time, but you could also select a specific option from the dropdown menu for any other cases.