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Originally Posted by davidfor
That's even more fun. While looking at how Count Pages did the counting, I forgot to look at what it counted. They are each counting different things.
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davidfor - did you find any counting of angels on pins
The contentious issue is usually hyphenated words - one word or many, and if many what to do about 'not in dictionary' parts, and the ignoring of SHY.
Calibre's spell checker also checks the spelling in metadata. So if your book is written in EN-US and you're using an EN-US dictionary, but the Comments contain reviews from the LRB and The Torygraph you're likely to get misspelt words emanating from Comments. Would anyone markup the some of the Comments as EN-GB - assuming one can.
IMO, by default, only the substantial sections of the work should be counted
and spell checked, not the scaffolding that glues it together or the marketing blurb.
I should point out that the 'book' in the counts in my earlier posts had no front or back matter, index, bibliography, or notes - it was an essay.
I just did some similar counts on a real book (Bankers New Clothes, Admati and Hellwig) which has lots of notes, has some tables and graphs, and a bibliography, and a long index. Sigil reports 163,081, Calibre Editor reports 163,959, and 'current official' Count Pages reports 173,007. How does that accord with your research.
BR