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Originally Posted by madelonw
The Count Pages plugin doesn't count pages as they are numbered. In fact, the number it puts out is usually higher than actual print pages. I have my own columns for Fiction/Non-Fiction, and Category (i.e., novel, novella, short story, etc). I use the count pages result to say this is a novel, this is a novella, etc. It also has been useful in the past for selecting something to read that I will be able to finish during a 2-hour plane trip. Bottom line, the number is relative but I find it useful.
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Which print pages? Unless the ebook is created from the same file as the print version, the page counts are very unlikely to be the same. I have several books in multiple print editions, one example being Eric Flint's
Mother of Demons for which I have a hard cover, a trade paperback and a mass-market paperback. All 3 have different page counts. Which one is the correct one to claim as the "ONE TRUE PAGE NUMBER™" source?
OTOH, I also find the output from Count Pages to be useful as an indication of the book reading time.
OYAH, if you really want to confuse Count Pages, try feeding it a ebook that used Base64 to encode images as text. I had one ebook that had multiple Base64 encoded images which resulted in a rather large file and that Count Pages reported as having ~2500 pages. Extracting the images, converting them to JPEG and re-inserting them resulted in a much smaller ebook file and with ~250 pages.