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BetterRed · 03-04-2026, 04:14 PM

Added: It is a column, have a look at Preferences->Add your own columns.

To the extent that it's possible, I ignore it.

I renamed the custom column I had from 'pages/Pages' to 'cc_pages/CC Pages' and made necessary adjustments to the Count Pages plugin, Book Details settings etc. And I customised the bookshelf view settings to suit my preference for minimalism:

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I wish there was a setting for shelf colour, dark brown on grey wash looks awful.

The page/Pages built in column is stored in the book-pages-link table in the metadata.db database.

BR

03-04-2026, 04:14 PM	#2
BetterRed null operator (he/him) Posts: 22,468 Karma: 31000706 Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Sydney Australia Device: none	Added: It is a column, have a look at Preferences->Add your own columns. To the extent that it's possible, I ignore it. I renamed the custom column I had from 'pages/Pages' to 'cc_pages/CC Pages' and made necessary adjustments to the Count Pages plugin, Book Details settings etc. And I customised the bookshelf view settings to suit my preference for minimalism: I wish there was a setting for shelf colour, dark brown on grey wash looks awful. The page/Pages built in column is stored in the book-pages-link table in the metadata.db database. BR Last edited by BetterRed; 03-04-2026 at 04:32 PM.