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

<figure> <img alt="Gemini Notebook’s Expert Intelligence feature" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: Google" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/Expert-Intelligence-Hero.png?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">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.</p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">During a briefing with <em>The Verge</em>, 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 <em>Food Rules</em>. In another example, Gemini Notebook applied the knowledge from Kim Scott's management-focus …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/tech/985567/google-gemini-notebook-expert-sources-books">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>