I’ve been trying to figure out how to leverage the power of books using AI. I toyed with some ideas, but I was never able to find workarounds for several issues. Today I learned that I wasn’t the only one working on this. Google was too. Thursday, Google announced Expert Intelligence (see here).

The product allows anyone to use Gemini Notebook (formerly NotebookLM) to ask questions of books; well, e-books, to be exact. Users can now upload books to Gemini Notebook, which makes it possible for them to interact with the book’s contents. They can ask questions, create audio overviews (i.e., personalized podcasts), search the contents of the book, etc. And this can all be done with one book or multiple books.

It’s still early, and this product is new, but I think it could transform how people make use of book content.