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

Google has expanded the capabilities of its AI-powered note-taking application, Gemini Notebook, by introducing a new feature called "Expert Intelligence." This tool allows users to import electronic books purchased through Google Play Books directly into their workspace environments.

Once imported, users can interact with the literary material by posing questions, drafting specialized study guides, generating customized educational plans, and creating synthetic audio podcasts modeled on the text. At launch, the integration supports more than 100,000 titles from major publishing houses and academic presses, alongside specialized "Featured Notebooks" that have been curated alongside select authors to provide additional introductory letters and context.

To address copyright concerns and support content creators, Google has built digital rights protections into the system's sharing framework. If a user shares a workspace that utilizes data from a purchased book, any recipient who does not also own that specific title will be blocked from viewing the underlying text or generating content from it. Instead, those users will see the book listed as an inactive source with a direct link to buy it. Looking ahead, the company plans to expand this interactive reading tool to other platforms, including its primary search interface and conversational assistant, while also broadening the library to support academic journals, periodicals, and newspapers.