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Originally Posted by jackie_w

That sounds like far too much effort.

The following suggestions pre-suppose that the 2 new custom columns you set up in Count Pages are called #pages and #words. If you called them something else, edit accordingly. See screenshots for the sort of thing which can be done.
[Caveat: my Kobo's are kobopatched to death so the general GUI appearance will differ to defaults, but you should get the gist.]

[See image 1] If you want to prefix a pagecount/wordcount line to the Synopsis in Kobo's Book Details you could try something like the the following in your calibre metadata plugboard:

Source template: {#pages:|<div>Pages: |; }{#words:|Words: |</div><hr/>}{comments}
Destination field: comments

Or, if you wanted to append '(CP wordcount here)' to each book Title in the MyBooks lists then you could add something like this to your plugboard:

Source template: {title}{#words:| (|)}
Destination field: title

(Images 1 & 2 both show pagecount appended to book Title, but wordcount should also work.)


Or, if you think adding wordcount to the book Title is ugly, try customising your calibre driver (Metadata tab, Subtitle field) to enable/customise the optional Subtitle template which will give you an extra line between the book's Title and Series in all the Kobo book lists. Something like this:

{#words:|Words: |}

(Images 1 & 2 both show Subtitle. I've used Awards rather than wordcount, but you get the picture.)

This is terrific! Thank you. I couldn't get the syntax right on my attempts. Both of the first two work great. I'll probably pare it down to just one of them.

I'm a little lost on the third method because I can't find the location of the Metadata tab to enable the Subtitle template. It's probably right in front of me, but I'm not succeeding in tracking it down. Where is that?