Google Play Books Ebooks Can Now Feed Gemini Notebook, If You Own Them – AndroidPure
Google Play Books Ebooks Can Now Feed Gemini Notebook, If You Own Them – AndroidPure
摘要: Google has started letting you drop ebooks you bought from Google Play Books straight into a Gemini Notebook, under a new umbrella it is calling Exper
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Google has started letting you drop ebooks you bought from Google Play Books straight into a Gemini Notebook, under a new umbrella it is calling Expert Intelligence. The
announcement went up on Google’s blog
on 27 August, and the practical version is simple: if you own an eligible title, you can now ask questions about that book and get answers grounded in its actual text rather than in whatever the model happens to have absorbed.
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The catch is the part worth reading twice, and we will get to it below, because it is the rule that decides whether this is useful to you or just an ad for the Play Books store.
What Expert Intelligence actually does with your Google Play Books library
Google describes Expert Intelligence as “a cross Google initiative that helps you engage with your trusted sources through Google AI products.” In its first form, that means adding a purchased ebook to a notebook as a source, alongside anything else you would normally put in there — your own documents, notes, PDFs, photos.
Once a book is in, Gemini Notebook treats it the way it treats any other source. You can ask questions and get responses cited back to the book. You can also generate the notebook’s usual output formats from it — Google names Infographics, Audio Overviews and Quizzes specifically.
The examples Google uses are all mixing-your-own-material cases, and that is the genuinely interesting bit: a book plus your journal entries, or a book plus a photo of what is in your fridge, in one notebook. The book stops being a thing you read cover to cover and becomes a reference layer over your own stuff.
At launch Google says the catalogue covers more than 100,000 books from publishers including Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan Publishers, O’Reilly Media and Penguin Random House. More than 15 authors — Steven Pinker, Michael Pollan and Jennifer Wallace among them — worked with Google on curated “Featured Notebooks” built around