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Old 01-04-2017, 08:07 PM   #961
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
Use Current Preferred output format: (<show the value as a hint only>)

Standard Calibre usage locks in the then current settings
eg Convert


BTW my Library used ADE page counts historically (Astak PEz).

I now use my K4NT
CP won't count using ADE when only a AZW3 exists
I really don't want to recalc all those (besides, changes the Last Modified flag)

A count method sb just an algorithm to use (assumes the filoe can be processed) If I want to count a Kindle Book using ADE rules, why not?
The problem is the algorithm. The ADE page count uses the compressed size of the internal text files. It doesn't matter what is in the files, it just divides the compresses size by 1024 to get the number of pages for each file and then adds them up. There are all sorts of things wrong with that as an algorithm, but that's the way it works. A simple one is that if you use a different compression level, you get a different page count.

I suppose the same could be done for AZW3, but, I have no idea of the internal format of the format, so I don't know if it is constructed in a suitable way. Plus, whatever compression is used will affect it.

I'll put it on the list to look at, but I can't promise anything.
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