Thread: Possible to get a word count in Calibre?
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Old 01-23-2016, 06:17 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by BetterRed View Post
@davidfor - did you find any counting of angels on pins

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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.
To my mind, the point of the hyphen is to join thing into one word. Hence, it should always be counted as one. When I was experimenting, the problem of what was a hyphen was as much as a problem as anything else.
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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 want to check the spelling on the comments in the metadata, but I don't want them counted as part of the word count. Same goes for the ToC in an epub.
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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.
Yes, and apparently there is a way to mark this in epub3. But, I've never seen a book that did it.
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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.
The calibre editor and Sigil difference will be the metadata and any alt attributes of images. An extra 880 words is probably right there. But, 10,000 extra with Count Pages is surprising. They are usually a lot closer. I'm curious, so I've just grabbed the preview from Kobo to test. That has up to chapter 2, so hopefully it will have enough to see what the difference are.
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