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Originally Posted by Phil_C
The Count Pages plugin gives you a count that can be placed in a calibre custom column. It does not change the way your Kobo will display page numbers in a book you are reading.
I, too, prefer the Adobe page count. For me, it is a more "realistic" count that approximates a typical print book and gives me a good feel for a book's length. Sometimes I am in the mood for a short read, sometimes a long read. That comes into play when I am choosing my next read.
I wanted to have this information somewhere in each book on the Kobo. With the help of some posts elsewhere in this forum and a bit of trial and error, I found a way to send the total page count for each book from calibre to the Kobo. The count appears on the Book Details page of each book.
This can be dome manually from within the Kobo Utilities plugin, but a better way is via a Metadata Plugboard that can automatically do the job when you send books to the Kobo. The code for either method looks like this...
Code:
{#pg_ct:|<p>Pages: |</p>}{comments}
...where my calibre custom column lookup name is #pg_ct. |
What you're telling is very similar to my method. I include the number of pages as book subtitle, so I can see it in the library. I would want to have, however, the kepub count (I prefer to be more in the range of the ereader, Adobe calculation says nothing to me aside of a mesure), without:
- Create a column for words
- Create an additional column that calculates words / 320
- Change my kobo extended driver configuration for including as subtitle this new column
Anyway, I've read again David's post... and it is the old method, not how it's calculated now (on the fly), so it's not necessary either.