The newest version 2.9 of Calibre, the cross-platform ebook management software, recognises footnotes and shows them in a separate window section, heise reports. Scrolling with the mouse wheel in the cover browser has also been improved.
Calibre 2.9 displays footnotes separately. Shortly after the update to version 2.8, which provided a driver for the Tolino-2-Vision e-reader, Kovid Goyal released a new version of his e-book manager. Calibre 2.9 recognises footnotes and displays these in a separate window section if they are clicked on in the preview. Calibre is thus using both the footnote label of the EPUB 3.0 format and heuristics too.
In addition, mouse scrolling in the program window’s cover browser has also been improved. An additional shop for e-books has been added with Portugal’s Bubok. Calibre will now load large libraries which use user-defined columns from templates more quickly.
Calibre 2.9 also corrects a number of errors, e.g. those involving the global menu in the Linux Unity desktop and Imagemagick. The changelog on the Calibre website lists all the new features of Calibre 2.9, where the new version can also be downloaded for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.