Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, now allows users to interact with books they’ve purchased through Google Play Books. The new ‘Expert Intelligence’ feature enables users to ask questions about book content and generate materials like plans and infographics.
During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson demonstrated how the tool could be used to create a recipe book based on Michael Pollan’s *Food Rules*. He also showed how Gemini Notebook applied knowledge from Kim Scott’s *Radical Candor* to answer a management question. Users can also view the full text of the book within the Notebook.
Initially, over 100,000 books from publishers including Penguin Random House, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan Publishers, and O’Reilly Media will support Expert Intelligence. Google collaborated with 15 authors, including Pollan, Scott, Steven Pinker, and Jennifer Wallace, to create “Featured Notebooks” with custom source material and introductory letters. Books supporting the feature will display a “Gemini Notebook” badge under the “Tools” section in Google Play Books.
Johnson stated, “I’m really interested in the idea of building a collection of people whose work you really value, and kind of creating your own dream team of advisers that are just available to you wherever you go.” Google has implemented protections to prevent access to purchased book material by users who haven’t bought the title. Those attempting to access content from a book they don’t own will see it listed as a source but won’t be able to view the full text. A link to purchase the book on Google Play Books will be provided.
Google intends to expand Expert Intelligence to AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, and eventually to scholarly articles, magazine articles, and newspapers. Google’s goal, according to Johnson, is “to be able to create a space where users can bring whatever knowledge, whatever expertise they think is going to be most relevant and do it in a way that creates new revenue possibilities for authors and publishers as well,”
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