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Old 01-30-2026, 06:44 PM   #1
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[Help] copy info from a column to another
with Calibre 9 comes a default column for book Pages so, i want to pass al the info of my custom column (for book pages) to that column.

is there a way to do it, i don't want to do it manually.
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Old 01-30-2026, 06:50 PM   #2
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with Calibre 9 comes a default column for book Pages so, i want to pass al the info of my custom column (for book pages) to that column.

is there a way to do it, i don't want to do it manually.
That column is used by calibre for managing spine widths in the bookshelf view. I suppose it could be modified by manipulating the database but the results would be overwritten anytime a recount was triggered.

You can select a different column for use instead of Pages. I used the #pages from the Count Pages plugin when doing some testing during the calibre 9 beta.
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with Calibre 9 comes a default column for book Pages so, i want to pass al the info of my custom column (for book pages) to that column.

is there a way to do it, i don't want to do it manually.
You can configure calibre to use your pages column instead of calibre's pages column. It's what I did with the beta and what I have to do again now that calibre is out of beta.

The setting you want are in Preferences > Look & feel > Bookshelf view.
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I am not sure if Calibre won't stomp on {pages} later.
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