Google adds purchased books support to Gemini Notebook
Google has added the Expert Intelligence feature to its Gemini Notebook note-taking app, allowing users to use books purchased through Google Play Books as sources for queries and content creation. The Verge reports. Users will be able to ask questions about the contents of publications and create outlines, infographics, AI podcasts, and other materials based on them.
More than 100,000 books
At launch, Expert Intelligence will support more than 100,000 books from Penguin Random House, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan Publishers, O’Reilly Media, and other publishers. Books compatible with the new feature will have a Gemini Notebook label in the Tools section of Google Play Books.
During a briefing for The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson demonstrated how the service can create a recipe collection based on Michael Pollan’s book Food Rules. In another example, Gemini Notebook used the content of Kim Scott’s management book Radical Candor to answer a question about a difficult conversation with an employee. The full text of a purchased book will also be available for viewing directly in Notebook.
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Access protection and author-curated collections
Google has introduced restrictions to protect material from purchased books. If a user shares a Notebook containing such a publication, a person who has not purchased the book will see it among the sources but will not have access to either the full text or information related to it. After clicking on the source, the service will direct the user to Google Play Books to purchase the book.
The company also worked with 15 authors, including Michael Pollan, Kim Scott, Steven Pinker, and Jennifer Wallace, on Featured Notebooks. The authors supplemented these collections with additional sources, introductory letters, and other materials. Google plans to later add the feature to AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, as well as extend it to academic, magazine, and newspaper articles.
