Google’s AI note-taking app, Gemini Notebook, has introduced a new ‘Expert Intelligence’ feature that allows users to pull information from their purchased books directly into the app. This means you can ask questions, generate plans, infographics, and even AI podcasts based on the contents of your books.

The feature works by integrating titles from Google Play Books into Gemini Notebook. During a briefing with The Verge, Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson demonstrated its capabilities by creating a recipe book using the information in Michael Pollan’s Food Rules, and applying the knowledge from Kim Scott’s Radical Candor to answer a question about handling a difficult conversation with an employee.

To start, more than 100,000 books from publishers like Penguin Random House and O’Reilly Media will support the feature. Google has also worked with 15 authors to create 'Featured Notebooks' that include additional source material and intro letters. Titles that support the feature will have 'Gemini Notebook' listed under the 'Tools' badge in Google Play Books.

Google has built protections into Gemini Notebook to prevent other users from accessing material from books they haven’t purchased. If you share a Notebook that includes a purchased book, a user who doesn’t own the title will see it listed as a source, but they won’t be able to view the full text or information related to it. Clicking the source will direct users to Google Play Books, where they can purchase it.

Google plans to eventually bring this feature to AI Mode in Search and the Gemini app, and it has also announced plans to expand Expert Intelligence to support scholarly articles, magazine articles, and newspapers.