Mendeley, the research article management software, has added new AI features. When you're given a new article to read, the Reading Assistant helps you navigate it by providing an overview of its purpose, key points and structure. As your library grows, literature review becomes less about collecting articles and more about understanding how they relate to one another. The Ask My Library feature helps you work with saved PDFs to find relevant articles and identify connections between them. Research projects often span long periods, making it difficult to maintain context over time. The AI ​​assistant can help you quickly familiarize yourself with key articles and find sources relevant to your current stage of research.

Pocketbook has introduced the new InkPad One e-note reader with a 10.3-inch Mobius display, a more durable version of E Ink displays (it lacks a glass base). The Mobius's downside is its lower resolution—just 226 pixels per inch (versus 300 pixels for E Ink Carta). The rest of the specs are fairly average. The device is equipped with a 1.8 GHz quad-core processor (Rockchip RK3566), 2 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage (no memory card slot). It also features a backlight, a tilt sensor, a lid opening sensor, a USB-C port, dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5.0. It also supports audio and speech synthesis via Bluetooth and the USB port. Dimensions are listed as 244 x 173 x 5 mm and it weighs 400 grams. The InkPad One has a 3700 mAh battery. It features a buttonless design, an aluminum frame with a matte black finish and non-slip grips on the back.

Writing app for Mac Ulysses implemented fresh new look that fully embraces the stunning qualities of Liquid Glass. Physical keyboard navigation now allows to use the arrow keys to move from Library to Editor and back again, use Return to drill down and CMD-Return to… drill up. Writers can now copy text for use on Substack. Most formatting is supported, platform limitations apply (no images), share whole projects as a zipped archive (to create manual backups or simple project templates), perform actions from anywhere in the system: create new sheets, add images, move groups…

Draft2Digital and Bookshop.org announced a new partnership that makes hundreds of thousands of independent ebooks from indie authors distributed through Draft2Digital now available on Bookshop.org's rapidly growing ebook platform, with the partnership expected to grow to over a million titles as it expands. For the first time, the fastest-growing segment of publishing is directly providing a sustainable digital revenue stream for local bookstores. Draft2Digital supports over 330,000 authors worldwide and has helped generate over $500 million in ebook sales. Some experts believe this ecosystem is home to low-quality books (including those written by AI) that are impossible to publish with any major publisher and could significantly pollute Bookshop.org.

Free collection management software Tellico released a couple of updates. The improvements include fixed Arxiv ID search to return correct results, updated Data Crow importer for new XML format, updated IGDB source. Besides the developers added configurable image size to OpenLibrary data source, updated OpenLibrary source to find covers for books without ISBN, to fetch notes and plot, updated CSV importer to load images, added option for image links to CSV importer, KDE shortcut keys for previous/next tab, updated iTunes source for better movie results. This will be the last release that retains compatibility with Qt5.

FBReader has updated its desktop versions for Linux, macOS and Windows. Reliability of bookmark syncing with mobile devices has been improved, ePub support has been significantly enhanced and the interface has been translated into Esperanto. It also includes support for OPDS 2.0 and integration with the Readino bookstore. The Android app is optimized for devices with Viwoods e-ink devices, includes the same ePub support improvements as the desktop versions and fixes several long-standing issues, including a crash when editing bookmarks.

CLZ Books Web now features reading history tracking. It allows you to not only mark books as read but also track multiple reading sessions, enter both start and end dates and even track your reading progress, i.e., the number of pages read out of the total. You can also use folders to group by reader, reading status, year read, month read or reading date to get a good overview of which books you or someone else in your family is reading, finished or abandoned during each period. Your full reading history is displayed in a separate section on the book details panel, as well as in the new "Reading Statistics" section. The developers have also added intelligent automation settings for starting and ending a reading event. You can fine-tune what CLZ Books Web does when adding a new reading event or setting the status to "Completed." For example, you can allow the end date to be automatically populated when setting the status to "Completed."

Recent decisions by San Diego Comic-Con and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) illustrate the depth of opposition to AI within creative communities. In its new Nebula Awards guidelines, SFWA stipulated that works created in whole or in part by artificial intelligence (AI) are not eligible for submission. The annual San Diego Comic-Con convention also amended its guidelines, now stating: "Submissions generated in whole or in part by artificial intelligence (AI) are not eligible for submission." It's likely safe to assume that other organizations will announce similarly strong stances this year and that these communities will continue to discuss broader issues.

Instapaper, the service for delayed reading of online articles, has announced that the "Send to Kindle" feature is now available only to subscribers of the paid Instapaper Premium plan. A representative stated that creating Kindle digests is a resource-intensive process. It involves parsing numerous articles, downloading images for each article, burning everything to disk, creating an ePub file and sending it to Kindle email address. As the number of subscribers grew, creating Kindle digests became more expensive for everyone and the service had been operating at a loss for some time. Instapaper Premium costs $5.99 per month.

Starting January 20, 2026, Amazon allowed users to download DRM-free Kindle books in EPUB and PDF formats (but only if the author has enabled this option in Kindle Direct Publishing). To do this, you need to visit the "Manage Your Content and Devices" page on your Amazon account. Only verified buyers will be able to access EPUB/PDF files and this option is not available to Kindle Unlimited subscribers. Previously, even if authors uploaded DRM-free ebooks, Amazon still encrypted them in KFX format, making it impossible to download them to alternative e-readers such as Kobo or Pocketbook.