Calibre Plugin that I find incredibly useful

[amalthia]

Count Pages is a very useful plugin that will with a click of a button count the pages in a mobi/epug file and tell you how many words are in the story.

If you already have Calibre you can install this plugin via Calibre.

I installed this about two weeks ago on Calibre and I'm loving it so far. I have it setup to not only count pages in a fan fiction story but to also generate a word count. This is useful for anyone that likes to organize their stories by story length. :)

There are other fan fiction friendly plugins available through Calibre but I haven't tested them all out yet.

Comments

[meri-oddities.livejournal.com]

Awesome plugin. I love knowing the word count of stories. Thanks for the tip.

[amalthia]

I also love being able to easily see the word count for a story. :)

[photoash.livejournal.com]

This sounds great but where does it list the word count - as a column in calibre or does it put it somewhere where you can easily see it in your ereader? (I mean yes you get the ..... to show you length on my kindle but that's a very imprecise tally just showing me if it's incredibly long or shorter XD)

I am all for finding things to make Calibre more user friendly for fanfic reading!

[amalthia]

You need to create two custom columns, one for the page count and one for the word count. Or you can just do one custom column depending on which you one you'd prefer. I didn't bother with page count...It sadly does not display on the ebook device but it's great for finding longer fics within Calibre.

I have custom columns for fandom, pairings, warnings, read/not read, length, now word count, challenges story came from, and if there are graphics in the story.

As for the Kindle...you are not the first to mention the pages not being very accurate. I don't know much about it enough to offer advice because the Sony displays something like page "5 of 50 pages." It doesn't do ranges.