While there are several e-book creators in the market, Calibre isn’t just the usual deal. My Calibre is in French so the words I used in my answer might not exactly be the ones used in the English interface, sorry.Calibre⁠-an ideal way to keep e-books organized!Īn essential e-book management program for every voracious reader It takes a while because the plugin needs to open and process each fileĮach time you add a new book in the library you will need to use that Count Pages button to fill in the column for this book.Ĭalibre will need to be restarted several times in the process.

You might get an error message saying that it could not process x books because it did not find them in a supported format.

Select all the books you need counted and click on the Count pages main menu button.

You don't need to bother with the other options but you could create a 'page' count column too if you'd like.

In the Word count options select your custom column.

You should have a new Count pages button in the main menu : Select Customize the extension module in the drop-down list.

Check that the column now shows up in your library (but it is empty and you need to populate it)įinally, use Count Pages to populate your new column :.

Name the column 'Words' for instance (the first field is used for advanced search and does not allow capitals so you can enter 'words').

In the Preferences window, click on Add a custom column and then on the + button.

You also have to create a custom column :

In Calibre Preferences window, go to Extensions, then click on Get new extension modules.

It works only for MOBI and EPUB files so it won't be able to show the word count of books you have only in Amazon Kindle format for instance. This is not straightforward but there is a Calibre extension that you can install : Count Pages (it counts pages but it also counts words).

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