Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, can now pull information from the books you’ve purchased. The new “Expert Intelligence” feature allows you to bring titles from Google Play Books directly into Gemini Notebook, which means you can ask questions about the material, as well as generate plans, infographics, AI podcasts, and more based on their contents.

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Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books

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Key Facts

Fact 1: To start, more than 100,000 books from publishers like Penguin Random House, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan Publishers, O’Reilly Media, and others will support Expert Intelligence.
Fact 2: Google also worked with 15 authors, including Pollan, Scott, Steven Pinker, and Jennifer Wallace, to create “Featured Notebooks” that each author customizes with additional source material, intro letters, and more.

During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson showed how you can use the tool to generate a recipe book using the information in Michael Pollan’s Food Rules. In another example, Gemini Notebook applied the knowledge from Kim Scott’s management-focused Radical Candor to answer a question about handling a difficult conversation with an employee. You’ll also be able to view the full text of the book directly in Notebook.

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