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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've updated all of my eBook counts. The only thing that's changed is the word count. Page numbers are still the same.
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Hi - yes that would make sense because as I mentioned it depends on the algorithm as to whether the change I made has an impact or not. In the case of ADE which I believe you prefer to use then it would not, as from memory ADE just uses the raw size of the html files without any parsing/processing. Whereas other algorithms that for instance try to count based on paragraphs or amount of text characters (or indeed word counts) need to strip out the body text from the html. Which is what I changed.
As to the whole “which page count” should you use - mostly it does not matter so long as you are consistent with an option across your library as the point of the plugin is to give a relative comparison between books. It really doesn’t matter if “the number” is 300 or 400, so long as a similar size book gives a similar number.
I will agree that the weakness of the download page count options is that you must make sure you link to an edition that makes sense or you may get wildly varying numbers which violates the statement I said above. It is not an option I personally use, nor was it added to the plugin by myself. However for people who get very specific about matching editions I can understand the appeal.