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Originally Posted by Kraftwerk
I want to know the number of pages of all the books I have in my library:
Can I click one button to do this or do I have to manually choose every book that I have and do it that way?
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Just select the books in your library all at once, and the plugin will count all of them.
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Concerning the 'Sending your Custom Count to a Kindle':
Can you explain what this will do exactly and how it will look on my Kindle 4?
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There are Amazon books that have "Real Page numbers". They have an additional file, beside the book itself, which is downloaded if you get the book directly from the site using the Kindle. This extra file contains the information needed to make the Kindle display page numbers.
Normally, if you send books to the Kindle using Calibre, the Kindle driver generates that file.
You can right-click the Device icon (with the Kindle connected), and provide the #pages column (or the name you've chosen) to the driver. Instead of calculating the page number using an algorithm, it will use the page numbers that were counted by Count Pages. This gives you the option to set custom page counts.
I use a custom page count of 2400 characters a page; I obtained the number by counting the amount of characters in a few English Del Rey paperbacks.
If you tap the top of the screen on the Kindle, it'll show the page number at the bottom; either the one provided by Amazon (on a directly downloaded book), the one generated by the driver, or the one provided by Count Pages (if you put the column name into the driver).
One caveat: to get this to work on a new Kindle or one that has had a factory reset, you must first download and open a real, unmodified Amazon book, page through it a bit, and then display the page number. This seems to be necessary to activate this function. For me, it never worked if I didn't do this first. Afterward, you can remove the book from the Kindle.
Just buy a free book that has "real page numbers", and leave it in your library.
(Note: this behaviour could be different on different Kindles, or with different firmware.)