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rlh3 · 09-25-2012, 02:12 PM

Is there any way to have the plugin calculate and display a sum of word and page counts for a set of books?

I imagine it working something like this: Select a set of books, click on the dropdown menu of the plugin, select something called 'sums' or 'totals', and then a window pops up giving the total number of words and pages in the selected group. The values calculated would not saved in any way, they are just a temporary calculation.

Part of my reasoning for asking about this is that my son's class is having a competition as to who reads the most over the school year, and, as my son does most of his reading on an old sony reader, or on my ipad, it would be nice to be able to give him a running total of words or pages read.
The other part of my reasoning for asking about this, is that I think it would be cool.

09-25-2012, 02:12 PM	#454
rlh3 Connoisseur Posts: 51 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: iPad	Is there any way to have the plugin calculate and display a sum of word and page counts for a set of books? I imagine it working something like this: Select a set of books, click on the dropdown menu of the plugin, select something called 'sums' or 'totals', and then a window pops up giving the total number of words and pages in the selected group. The values calculated would not saved in any way, they are just a temporary calculation. Part of my reasoning for asking about this is that my son's class is having a competition as to who reads the most over the school year, and, as my son does most of his reading on an old sony reader, or on my ipad, it would be nice to be able to give him a running total of words or pages read. The other part of my reasoning for asking about this, is that I think it would be cool.