[GUI Plugin] Count Pages - Page 112

kiwidude · 09-01-2023, 03:32 AM

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.1

Many thanks to Kovid for the steer on the relevant calibre code to ensure that now this plugin does indeed match the ebook viewer page count should anyone choose that particular option.

Comfy.n · 09-01-2023, 04:07 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.1

Many thanks to Kovid for the steer on the relevant calibre code to ensure that now this plugin does indeed match the ebook viewer page count should anyone choose that particular option.

wow I just tested it, and this was a really pleasant surprise, as I'm running Calibre from source and the viewer takes more time to load in this mode.

(I'm using dev mode because of the new book details CSS customising feature)

Yesterday I had to open a bunch of titles in Viewer to get the page number manually and it was a bit tiresome.

C-novice · 09-01-2023, 02:58 PM

I had to reinstall Calibre and added the count pages plugin, restarted Calibre but I am not seeing its icon on Calibre's toolbar as I normally do.

Could I have missed a step somewhere?

I downloaded the plugin, went to Preferences --> Change Calibre's behaviour --> Plugins --> Load plug in from file, restart Calibre and that's it. No way to choose count pages -no icon.

theducks · 09-01-2023, 03:08 PM

Preferences: Toolbars:
If the Plugin is installed, the icon should be available

REMEMBER: some toolbars have a Device Connected version. If you want the tool to be available on both, you need to add it to each one.

C-novice · 09-01-2023, 03:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theducks

Preferences: Toolbars:
If the Plugin is installed, the icon should be available

REMEMBER: some toolbars have a Device Connected version. If you want the tool to be available on both, you need to add it to each one.

Oh dear me. Know what it was? The icons on the toolbar are large so countpages went onto a second line which I have to nav to the right a bit to see.

Thank you!

theducks · 09-01-2023, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by C-novice

Oh dear me. Know what it was? The icons on the toolbar are large so countpages went onto a second line which I have to nav to the right a bit to see.

Thank you!

Good to hear you found it.
FWIW I moved Preferences and Help to the Menu Bar (text only), that leave mor room.

wanderson · 09-09-2023, 12:37 PM

I'm getting poor (or at least erratic) results using the Count Pages plugin (CP) when trying to get Goodreads.com data. I'm using Calibre 6.26.0, Count Pages 1.13.1 and Goodreads 1.7.9. See attachment for my CP control panel.

THANKS to kiwidude for these useful plugins!

In most cases, CP simply fails to get a page count from the Goodreads API. These results are typically described in the FAILURE section below.

In other, somewhat perplexing, cases, CP will succeed in getting a page count, IMMEDIATELY AFTER A FAILURE. See SUCCESS below.

By the way, these two logs were from consecutive attempts with CP. The first was after a clean startup in Calibre, and the second immediately followed.

My workflow is to import my EPUB book, get additional metadata using the Goodreads plugin (thanks again, kiwidude), potentially revise the Amazon ID if it does not correspond to the appropriate B* Kindle ID, and then use CP to retrieve page data.

What am I doing wrong? Or is this just the Goodreads API being flaky or recalcitrant?

Thanks for any information.

Willie

========= FAILURE ==========

Spoiler:

========= SUCCESS =========

Spoiler:

Strether · 09-09-2023, 09:03 PM

For what it's worth, the new Kindle Scribe after the last update, does not support the Count Pages plugin.

Loaded the book on both my Scribe and my Paperwhite and only the latter device shows pages as available. Pages are grayed out on the Scribe. Have downloaded 3 new books since installing Calibre 6.26 and pages are not available on any of them.

Not sure whether it's worth your while to investigate this, but thought I'd report it.

Jim

kiwidude · 09-12-2023, 02:24 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Strether

For what it's worth, the new Kindle Scribe after the last update, does not support the Count Pages plugin.

Loaded the book on both my Scribe and my Paperwhite and only the latter device shows pages as available. Pages are grayed out on the Scribe. Have downloaded 3 new books since installing Calibre 6.26 and pages are not available on any of them.

Not sure whether it's worth your while to investigate this, but thought I'd report it.

Jim

Jim - kind of confused here. This plugin has no relevance to specific devices whatsoever - all it does is populate a column in the calibre library. It doesn't try to modify the books themselves or apply some sort of metadata to them on your device - it is purely for when on your PC and looking at your calibre library being able to see some extra data about a book in the library grid.

kiwidude · 09-12-2023, 03:54 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wanderson

I'm getting poor (or at least erratic) results using the Count Pages plugin (CP) when trying to get Goodreads.com data.

The cause of the erratic behavior is the same problem the Goodreads metadata plugin had - the Goodreads website not returning consistent html results unless using a Chrome based user agent. I am making the same change to this plugin as I made to the other one to force it to choose a random Chrome agent rather than the default calibre behaviour of a wider pool of types of web browser user agents.

From my quick attempt at a download of page count this solved the issue. Release coming soon.

kiwidude · 09-12-2023, 05:48 AM

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.2

wanderson · 09-13-2023, 11:29 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kiwidude

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.2

Thanks for the fast response, kiwidude. I've tried 1.13.2 and it seems much improved. I still (typically) have to run it twice, but it seems to be reliably getting a good page count on the second effort, and occasionally on the first. Here are logs from two back-to-back runs; the first run got one out of 5, and the second run got the remaining four.

Thanks again.

======PARTIAL FAILURE======

Spoiler:

======SUCCESS======

Spoiler:

EDIT: Alas, I am still seeing some persistent failures for books with page counts at Goodreads. I'll post additional logs if there is interest.

kiwidude · 09-14-2023, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wanderson

Thanks for the fast response, kiwidude. I've tried 1.13.2 and it seems much improved. I still (typically) have to run it twice, but it seems to be reliably getting a good page count on the second effort, and occasionally on the first. Here are logs from two back-to-back runs; the first run got one out of 5, and the second run got the remaining four.

I picked one of those books, ran count pages five times in a row on it and it succeeded every time. Perhaps Goodreads have some flaky servers that get hit from your location, or perhaps I just got lucky. Unless I can replicate a failure myself (I don't use this download counts feature personally so it is not one I am going to hit during normal calibre usage) then I'm afraid there is nothing more I can do.

kiwidude · 10-06-2023, 11:46 PM

Release Notes
https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.3

Thanks to @seeder for some missing files/fixes for some of the downloads of international sites, not a feature I ever use to notice myself.

This version also has an important change made to how I read the contents of an epub/azw3 book, in that I am attempting to process the html entities "properly" rather than some of the historical hackiness in there. This will resolve the issue raised by someone where they had AZW3 and ePub versions of the same book giving wildly different word counts - which was due to the AZW3 version using html encoded entities and the epub version not doing so.

Anyways the net result is dont be surprised if you see page counts and word counts now change a little to what was calculated previously (for some of the algorithms).

Smokus · 10-07-2023, 05:13 AM

Which algorithm for Page Count is objectively the best one?
Does Page Count from Goodreads offer superior results than using algorithms to obtain Page Count?

I don't know if it matters, but I usually convert EPUB books into KFX and then use the Count Pages plugin.

09-01-2023, 03:32 AM	#1666
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,685 Karma: 2162246 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Count Pages v1.13.1 Released Release Notes https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.1 Many thanks to Kovid for the steer on the relevant calibre code to ensure that now this plugin does indeed match the ebook viewer page count should anyone choose that particular option.

09-01-2023, 02:58 PM	#1668
C-novice ReadingZealot Posts: 164 Karma: 11818 Join Date: Oct 2014 Device: kobo ARC, Samsung Tab4	CountPages plugin icon not showing on Calibre's toolbar I had to reinstall Calibre and added the count pages plugin, restarted Calibre but I am not seeing its icon on Calibre's toolbar as I normally do. Could I have missed a step somewhere? I downloaded the plugin, went to Preferences --> Change Calibre's behaviour --> Plugins --> Load plug in from file, restart Calibre and that's it. No way to choose count pages -no icon.

09-09-2023, 12:37 PM	#1672
wanderson Member Posts: 19 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jul 2017 Device: Kindle Paperwhite Gen 11 & Likebook Mars	Poor / erratic results trying to get Goodreads.com data I'm getting poor (or at least erratic) results using the Count Pages plugin (CP) when trying to get Goodreads.com data. I'm using Calibre 6.26.0, Count Pages 1.13.1 and Goodreads 1.7.9. See attachment for my CP control panel. THANKS to kiwidude for these useful plugins! In most cases, CP simply fails to get a page count from the Goodreads API. These results are typically described in the FAILURE section below. In other, somewhat perplexing, cases, CP will succeed in getting a page count, IMMEDIATELY AFTER A FAILURE. See SUCCESS below. By the way, these two logs were from consecutive attempts with CP. The first was after a clean startup in Calibre, and the second immediately followed. My workflow is to import my EPUB book, get additional metadata using the Goodreads plugin (thanks again, kiwidude), potentially revise the Amazon ID if it does not correspond to the appropriate B* Kindle ID, and then use CP to retrieve page data. What am I doing wrong? Or is this just the Goodreads API being flaky or recalcitrant? Thanks for any information. Willie ========= FAILURE ========== Spoiler: Count Page/Word Statistics do_count_statistics - book_path=None, pages_algorithm=0, page_count_mode=Download, statistics_to_run=['PageCount'], custom_chars_per_page=1500, icu_wordcount=True do_count_statistics - job started for file book_path=None ------------------------------- Logfile for book ID 1738 (The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - Walter Isaacson) Method of counting _page_count_mode=Download _download_sources=[('goodreads', '55513377')] results= {'PageCount': None} FAILED TO GET PAGE COUNT FROM WEBSITE 1738 do_statistics_for_book: None 0 Download [('goodreads', '55513377')] ['PageCount'] 1500 True DownloadPagesWorker::run - source_id=55513377, source_name=goodreads DownloadPagesWorker::run - PAGE_DOWNLOADS[source_name]={'URL': 'https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/%s', 'pages_xpath': '//div[@class="FeaturedDetails"]/p[@data-testid="pagesFormat"]/text()', 'name': 'Goodreads', 'id': 'goodreads', 'icon': 'images/goodreads.png', 'active': True, 'pages_regex': '([0-9]+) pages'} DownloadPagesWorker::run - self.pages_regex=([0-9]+) pages Download source book url: 'https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55513377' _parse_page_count: start _parse_page_count: root.__class__= HtmlElement _parse_page_count: pages_xpath='//div[@class="FeaturedDetails"]/p[@data-testid="pagesFormat"]/text()', =pages_regex='([0-9]+) pages' _parse_page_count: pages= [] _parse_page_count: end ========= SUCCESS ========= Spoiler: Count Page/Word Statistics do_count_statistics - book_path=None, pages_algorithm=0, page_count_mode=Download, statistics_to_run=['PageCount'], custom_chars_per_page=1500, icu_wordcount=True do_count_statistics - job started for file book_path=None ------------------------------- Logfile for book ID 1738 (The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race - Walter Isaacson) Method of counting _page_count_mode=Download _download_sources=[('goodreads', '55513377')] results= {'download_source': 'goodreads', 'PageCount': 552} Downloaded page count from Goodreads: 552 1738 do_statistics_for_book: None 0 Download [('goodreads', '55513377')] ['PageCount'] 1500 True DownloadPagesWorker::run - source_id=55513377, source_name=goodreads DownloadPagesWorker::run - PAGE_DOWNLOADS[source_name]={'URL': 'https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/%s', 'pages_xpath': '//div[@class="FeaturedDetails"]/p[@data-testid="pagesFormat"]/text()', 'name': 'Goodreads', 'id': 'goodreads', 'icon': 'images/goodreads.png', 'active': True, 'pages_regex': '([0-9]+) pages'} DownloadPagesWorker::run - self.pages_regex=([0-9]+) pages Download source book url: 'https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55513377' _parse_page_count: start _parse_page_count: root.__class__= HtmlElement _parse_page_count: pages_xpath='//div[@class="FeaturedDetails"]/p[@data-testid="pagesFormat"]/text()', =pages_regex='([0-9]+) pages' _parse_page_count: pages= ['552 pages, Kindle Edition'] _parse_page_count: pages[0]= 552 pages, Kindle Edition _parse_page_count: pages_regex= ([0-9]+) pages _parse_page_count: pages_text= 552 _parse_page_count: have pages_regex='([0-9]+) pages' _parse_page_count: result from regex='552' _parse_page_count: end Attached Thumbnails Last edited by wanderson; 09-11-2023 at 06:54 PM. Reason: Please Spoiler Log files

09-12-2023, 05:48 AM	#1676
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,685 Karma: 2162246 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Count Pages v1.13.2 Released Release Notes https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.2

10-06-2023, 11:46 PM	#1679
kiwidude Calibre Plugins Developer Posts: 4,685 Karma: 2162246 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Australia Device: Kindle Oasis	Count Pages v1.13.3 Released Release Notes https://github.com/kiwidude68/calibr..._pages-v1.13.3 Thanks to @seeder for some missing files/fixes for some of the downloads of international sites, not a feature I ever use to notice myself. This version also has an important change made to how I read the contents of an epub/azw3 book, in that I am attempting to process the html entities "properly" rather than some of the historical hackiness in there. This will resolve the issue raised by someone where they had AZW3 and ePub versions of the same book giving wildly different word counts - which was due to the AZW3 version using html encoded entities and the epub version not doing so. Anyways the net result is dont be surprised if you see page counts and word counts now change a little to what was calculated previously (for some of the algorithms).

09-01-2023, 03:08 PM	#1669
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 30,443 Karma: 58055868 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Preferences: Toolbars: If the Plugin is installed, the icon should be available REMEMBER: some toolbars have a Device Connected version. If you want the tool to be available on both, you need to add it to each one.

09-09-2023, 09:03 PM	#1673
Strether Guru Posts: 760 Karma: 2825929 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Fresno Device: Kindle 1; iPad Air; iPhone 7; Kobo Libra; Kindle Oasis 3	For what it's worth, the new Kindle Scribe after the last update, does not support the Count Pages plugin. Loaded the book on both my Scribe and my Paperwhite and only the latter device shows pages as available. Pages are grayed out on the Scribe. Have downloaded 3 new books since installing Calibre 6.26 and pages are not available on any of them. Not sure whether it's worth your while to investigate this, but thought I'd report it. Jim

10-07-2023, 05:13 AM	#1680
Smokus Junior Member Posts: 7 Karma: 10 Join Date: Oct 2023 Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature Edition	Which algorithm for Page Count is objectively the best one? Does Page Count from Goodreads offer superior results than using algorithms to obtain Page Count? I don't know if it matters, but I usually convert EPUB books into KFX and then use the Count Pages plugin. Last edited by Smokus; 10-07-2023 at 05:15 AM.

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