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Originally Posted by BetterRed
I actually think the idea has merit, after all a traditional ToC has page numbers. Those who are old enough to have working mental arithmetic faculty can judge by the length (pages or words), author, and subject if a story warrants just a 10 minute skim on the train, or deserves a 45 minute contemplation in the garden.
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I think that's the place to put it. An inline ToC with the length of the section could be useful. When reading short stories in pbooks, I did look at the ToC to see how long the story was.
Putting it in the NCX could also be done. I don't like that idea as much, but I'm sure some people would do it.
One concern would be nexted ToCs. Does the highest level count all sub-sections or just the bit up to the first sub-section? Either would be "easy". Or at least it is if everything is in separate files. Multiple chapters in one file would complicate it a bit.
In any case, this sounds like an editor plugin. It would be a modification of the code for generating either the in-line ToC or the NCX. Subclassing these and overriding the title generation to calculate the word count would be "easy".
There's the design, someone can write the code
