Word Count per Page?

[BookWalker]

I hope I am in the right forum for this question.

Is there a setting, or a plugin to add, that I can see word count on the page I am viewing in Calibre?

I want to have my son use Calibre for book reading assignments. Some books have huge chapters and it's impossible to assign a whole chapter on a given day for him to read. I'd like to be able to tell him his word count minimum to read per assignment... Or if anyone can suggest a better idea for breaking up reading long chapters, that would be much appreciated.



Thanks much!

[BetterRed]

Originally Posted by BookWalker

I hope I am in the right forum for this question.

Is there a setting, or a plugin to add, that I can see word count on the page I am viewing in Calibre?

I want to have my son use Calibre for book reading assignments. Some books have huge chapters and it's impossible to assign a whole chapter on a given day for him to read. I'd like to be able to tell him his word count minimum to read per assignment... Or if anyone can suggest a better idea for breaking up reading long chapters, that would be much appreciated.

Thanks much!

Not as far as I know,

I have asked the authorities to move this to the calibre forum

BR

[kovidgoyal]

For a reading assignment I doubt the actual number of words is that important, set the calibre viewer window size, then you can assign an average number fo words per page by simply counting the words in a single typical line and multiplying by number of lines per typical page. Then you can give him a number of pages instead of a number of words.

[BookWalker]

Originally Posted by kovidgoyal

For a reading assignment I doubt the actual number of words is that important, set the calibre viewer window size, then you can assign an average number fo words per page by simply counting the words in a single typical line and multiplying by number of lines per typical page. Then you can give him a number of pages instead of a number of words.

I actually DO want to assign per number of pages. I can't recall why I thought word count would be an easier thing to do on Calibre. Probably because I noticed that his Calibre settings are different than mine, and when he views the pages on his PC they are not the same as on my Mac. Is there a way we can get both of our computers having the same Calibre settings? Then it's no problem assigning page count.

Sorry, I'm quite 'green' at this. Thanks much!

Edit: We just did a comparison. Here's an example using the book Roma by Steven Saylor. On my Mac using Calibre where it shows the current position and the total length of the book in the upper left, my total length number is 1185, while his on his Windows 7 is 1160... We went and set our fonts exactly the same size, as well as used the same font.

How do we get this number to show the same on both computers? This will solve my assignment problem!

Edit 2: I just realized that he had a mobi file while I was looking at an epub file. Once we switched to an epub file on his PC the numbers became the same, BUT we are still not seeing exactly the same. Very close! On the first page he's 2 words more, and of course when we go to the second page then that increases even more. We even tried full screen mode on both computers and that just made the difference much worse.

Update!
I've been studying Calibre and found the Reference Mode. After comparing and finding out that both computers show exactly the same number on each paragraph, I think this will work perfectly. I can view each book on my Mac, figure out where I'd like my son to start and stop at, give him general book position numbers, and then the paragraph numbers to look for. I think this method will serve us well.

Thanks for your initial help kovidgoyal!