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mehetabelo · 01-03-2015, 07:58 PM

I want to thank everyone that helped me a couple of weeks ago. I've been very happy with my modifications, and was able to make several more after reading through the entire thread.

That led me to two additional questions.

The first, I don't think is possible, based on one of the posts I read, but I want to verify.

Some of the sites (in this case storiesonline) do not have a word-count associated with the story, and I'm trying to get the word count placed in the title page entry by inserting information from a custom column into the entry. Generally even having the last updated information (generally 4-6k words different depending on author) is ok with me, so I don't mind if it's pulling older WC's, as long as it can pull them. The post I read mentioned that using a custom column in the calibre title page was not possible… I wanted to verify this is as I read it.

I have found a sort of workaround but inserting the metadata at the beginning, and making sure that information (wordcount) is displayed there, but this leaves me with two metadata pages/title pages. I can accept that, if it's the only choice, but I'd like to verify it. I did consider not using the title-page at all, (not sure if I can turn it off) but I like the look of it, and the way it keeps the author/title as links. Whereas calibre doesn't… though I think it may be able to with enough customization.

The second question came up while I was thinking about the above question, and trying to find an answer. I understand that the plugin can call the Count Pages plugin, but most sites don't need it. Is there a way to specify which sites call this, or does it have to be an all or nothing? I did look through the ini file extensively to see if there was any sort of option for this (and the custom column addition) but if there was anything, I either could not understand it at all, or missed it completely.

Thanks again for the help everyone! And Happy New Years!

01-03-2015, 07:58 PM	#3622
mehetabelo e-Bibliophile Posts: 60 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: California Device: Paperwhite 1-3, Kobo AuraHD, Boox Afterglow2	I want to thank everyone that helped me a couple of weeks ago. I've been very happy with my modifications, and was able to make several more after reading through the entire thread. That led me to two additional questions. The first, I don't think is possible, based on one of the posts I read, but I want to verify. Some of the sites (in this case storiesonline) do not have a word-count associated with the story, and I'm trying to get the word count placed in the title page entry by inserting information from a custom column into the entry. Generally even having the last updated information (generally 4-6k words different depending on author) is ok with me, so I don't mind if it's pulling older WC's, as long as it can pull them. The post I read mentioned that using a custom column in the calibre title page was not possible… I wanted to verify this is as I read it. I have found a sort of workaround but inserting the metadata at the beginning, and making sure that information (wordcount) is displayed there, but this leaves me with two metadata pages/title pages. I can accept that, if it's the only choice, but I'd like to verify it. I did consider not using the title-page at all, (not sure if I can turn it off) but I like the look of it, and the way it keeps the author/title as links. Whereas calibre doesn't… though I think it may be able to with enough customization. The second question came up while I was thinking about the above question, and trying to find an answer. I understand that the plugin can call the Count Pages plugin, but most sites don't need it. Is there a way to specify which sites call this, or does it have to be an all or nothing? I did look through the ini file extensively to see if there was any sort of option for this (and the custom column addition) but if there was anything, I either could not understand it at all, or missed it completely. Thanks again for the help everyone! And Happy New Years!