Thread: Custom column to display number of chapters?
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Old 09-08-2012, 05:06 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by crackshot91 View Post
So, I've been downloading a lot of fanfiction lately and first I had an annoying problem:

If I set fanfictiondownloader to download the fic as a mobi file, I wouldn't get the chapter marks on my kindle. So I found out I need to download the fics as epub files, and then convert them to mobi. An extra step, but it seems to work fine.

Now, I want to know how to add a custom column that tells me how many chapters a story has. I downloaded the "Count Pages" plugin that tells me the word count, so chapter count is the only thing missing.

(Well, that and auto-downloading the appropriate cover, but that's another topic)

Does anyone know how to create a column that will show how many chapters a book has?
What defines a 'Chapter' in any book?
A TOC item?
A new EPUB section file? The only obvious one is when a Heading (H tag) includes the word Chapter and not all books use a Heading Tag, just some other styled text the we recognize visually as a chapter.

Do you count Prolog, Epilog as a Chapter? How do you NOT count scene change headings?

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