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. During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson showed how you can use the tool to ge
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Will Google Gemini Notebook's book integration feature remain available by September 4, 2026?
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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... 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. (Published Aug 27, 2026, before the September 4, 2026 resolution date.)
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Google's AI note-taking app has added a feature called "Expert Intelligence" that lets users pull information from books they've purchased and interact with the material through AI tools. The feature allows users to ask questions about books, generate recipes, infographics, and AI podcasts based on their content. Initially, more than 100,000 books from major publishers will support the feature, and Google is building protections so users can only access books they own. Google plans to eventually expand this capability to its Search and Gemini app, and later support scholarly articles, magazine articles, and newspapers.
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