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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 […]

Google’s AI note-taking app now allows you to interact with books
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Published August 27, 2026 · Category: AI Briefing

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Gemini Notebook’s Expert Intelligence feature

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 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-focus …

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