2025.
Calibre improves support for 2024 and newer MTP based Kindles
ILM software
Calibre recently improved its Kindle drivers that allows to work with 2024 and newer Kindles that have a new file system called MTP. Kindle MTP driver now allows to mark all books sent to Kindle as personal documents, send books to subfolders inside the root folder, generate page number files (APNX), import KFX files, send cover thumbnails to Kindle Scribe and increase the size of these thumbnails. Also new updates include ability to set up a tooltip template for every column, color swatch in the results of annotation browser, support for embedded fonts in HTML output, Fetch news button that shows recently downloaded news sources, improved performance of the Piper Neural text to speech engine
2020.
EndNote 20 allows to annotate and organize PDFs more efficiently
EndNote has released the new version of its popular Reference Management software EndNote 20, that is bringing several new features and improvements. The new version is only available for Windows as before. One of the most notable additions is the enhanced PDF support, which allows users to import, annotate and organize PDFs more efficiently. The new release also offers a revamped user interface that is easier to navigate and customize the workflow. Another significant upgrade is the expanded citation style options. It includes over 9,000 reference styles. Overall, EndNote 20 offers a range of powerful tools for researchers, students and academics to manage their references. The pricing starts at $275 for one license.
2018.
Zotero improves PDF retrieval with Unpaywall integration
Open-source Reference Management software Zotero has introduced an enhanced feature that streamlines the process of accessing PDFs for items in your Zotero library. While Zotero has always been able to download PDFs as you save items from the web, many of these PDFs are often behind publisher paywalls, making them inaccessible to many users. To address this, Zotero has integrated with Unpaywall, a database of legal, full-text articles available from publishers and repositories worldwide. If Zotero cannot find or access a PDF from a webpage where an item is saved, it will automatically search for an open-access PDF using data from Unpaywall. The same process is followed when using “Add Item by Identifier” to create a new item and a new “Find Available PDF” option in the item context menu is available to retrieve PDFs for existing items in your library. Moreover, Zotero can now take better advantage of PDFs available through institutional subscriptions. When using “Add Item by Identifier” or “Find Available PDF”, Zotero will first attempt to find a PDF to download associated with the item’s DOI or URL before looking for open access copies.
2017.
Alfa Ebooks Manager 7 adds Web reader
Alfa.NetSoft released the new version of its popular ebook management software
Alfa Ebooks Manager 7. The new version features advanced Web Reader, that is available in software's web interface. It allows to open and read pdf, epub, mobi, fb2, djvu, txt ebooks in browser in your local network. It supports also mobile browsers, so you can read from your phone. The Web Reader bookmarks the last opened page for each book in browser's cookies. It also provides familiar options like text size, font, line height and others. And TOC is also available. The other new features include new Web interface and Autoupdate.
