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Old 05-04-2019, 11:11 PM   #1242
jtww
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Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask:

I just wanted to know the word count for a specific book. So this is what I did:

1. I imported the book into the calibre library
2. I installed this Count Pages plugin & checked the option to have it in the context menu
3. I restarted Calibre to activate the plugin
4. I right-clicked the book > Count Pages > Estimate Word/Page Counts

Now I'm seeing the error: You must specify custum column(s) first. Do you want to configure this now?

There are two things that threw me a bit for a loop, and which I suggest might be worth changing:

1. First of all, why do I need to have a permanent column for this just to see it once? I really just wanted to see it for that one book, but when I click "No" in that dialog I don't get some prompt with the info but just nothing

2. When I click "Yes" and I get to the plugin preferences, I have a lot of sections which each have a "Custom column" chooser - with zero options / just one empty entry. I can't actually set any custom column here, so what am I even supposed to do? (Is this a bug? If not, some sort of explanation of what it wants me to do in that dialog could be helpful)

Apart from that, thanks so much for providing this plugin! It is so useful to have this functionality, I just wish the way to get there was a little easier
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