Comment 6 for bug 1846700

The thing is: Before I start reading something, I want to know how long it is. Whether it is about 10 or about 100 print pages makes a difference. So some metric of absolute length should be a feature of Calibre itself and not an add-on. Now, in an anthology, story collection or a collection of scientific articles/essays I do not care whether a text is 5% of some total length. This is irrelevant. 5% can be 10 or 100 print pages. And collections and such are not normally read from cover to cover.

And I do not think that I am the only one, who wants to know whether some piece is short-story- or big-novel-length – before one starts reading.

I always thought it sick, that Kindle and other readers only show a percentage and considered it one of the many good features of Calibre, that it allows an absolute length indication.