Thread: how to populate pubdate and page count when adding a book?
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Old 08-02-2022, 12:42 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by Fynjisx View Post
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When you add a book to calibre, it can get metadata from two places. One is the internal metadata for the formats that support it. The other is by parsing the file name. Your image suggests you want to get the metadata from the filename. In that case, you need to write a regex to parse you filenames. But, the only metadata supported when doing this are those listed. These are the standard metadata items that calibre has built into it. This does not include the page count.

To add page count, I would normally recommend the Page Count plugin. That can calculate it from the book or download it from some site. An alternative is to use the GetFileName plugin to put the filename in a custom column and then parse that to put the page count in another column.
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