Calibre Advice

[the_other_sandy]

Last week, I used the FanFictionDL plugin in Calibre to create an anthology epub of a series on AO3. Everything went fine. This week, the author added a new story to that series. I was able to use FanFictionDL to update the anthology epub, but I can't get the Count Pages plugin to update the new page total. I get an error message that says "Book

Comments

[photoash]

How did you get fanfictionDL to allow you to make a book of a series?! :D

[the_other_sandy]

Directions are here.

[amothea]

Have you posted this question to the Mobile Read forum? the plugin creators are rather helpful in identifying the problem.

I noticed when I update an anthology the page count doesn't change until I actually update it using the Count Pages plugin...which is odd because for the other fic I add FFDL updates the page counts for me.

[the_other_sandy]

I tried using the Count Pages plugin manually, but I still got the same error message.

I'm not familiar with the Mobile Read forum. I wouldn't even begin to guess where in all the threads to pose the question.

[amothea]

I went ahead and posted your question to the forum in hopes that an answer will appear sometime today or tomorrow. I'll post here when I have an answer or if the person has need of further details

[amothea]

I received a reply rather quickly.

He said to, "Check the Count Pages plugin config for the 'Always overwrite an existing word/page count' check box near the bottom and check it."

Let me know if it worked, so I can follow up.