{
  "id": 4623007,
  "title": "Google just gave Gemini access to your ebooks — 7 prompts for readers and students",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/31/google-just-gave-gemini-access-to-your-ebooks-7-prompts-for-readers",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-08-31T10:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Tom's Guide",
    "slug": "tom-s-guide",
    "url": "https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/google-gemini/google-just-gave-gemini-access-to-your-ebooks-7-prompts-for-readers-and-students"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google has introduced a new feature called Expert Intelligence that integrates eligible ebooks from Google Play Books with Gemini Notebook. This allows users to engage with the text in new ways, such as generating quizzes, infographics, and audio overviews based on the content. To use this feature, you first need to add an eligible ebook to your Gemini Notebook by opening the book's page in Google Play Books, selecting the Tools badge, and then choosing the option to add it as a source. Once the book is added, you can ask Gemini questions grounded in the complete text and use it to create various study aids or summaries. Here are seven prompts to try with your ebooks using Expert Intelligence:\n\n1. Create a spoiler-free character guide: This prompt asks Gemini to provide a detailed character guide for a book without revealing any future plot details. For example, you could ask Gemini to create a spoiler-free guide to the characters introduced through Chapter [NUMBER].\n\n2. Catch up without starting again: If you haven't read your book in a while, you can use this prompt to get a refresher on the important events, character relationships, and unresolved questions up to a specific chapter. For example: \"I have read through Chapter [NUMBER] but haven't picked up this book in a while. Remind me of the important events, character relationships, and unresolved questions up to this point.\"\n\n3. Start your own book club: Gemini can create a discussion guide for your book that goes beyond simple questions about whether you liked the ending. Try prompting Gemini to create 10 book-club questions focusing on character motivations, central themes, difficult decisions, and the ending.\n\n4. Turn the book into a podcast: Gemini can generate an audio overview of the book, discussing the author's central argument, strongest evidence, and potential areas of debate. You can customize the prompt based on the type of book you're working with, such as a nonfiction or fiction title.\n\n5. Apply the author's advice to your life: If you're reading a self-help or business book, this prompt can help you extract relevant advice and create a practical plan for achieving a specific goal. Remember to separate the author's recommendations from your own suggestions and cite the relevant sections.\n\n6. Test what you remember: This prompt allows you to create a quiz based on the book, including multiple-choice questions, short-answer questions, and questions that require you to apply the book's ideas. You can choose which chapters to focus on or increase the difficulty as you progress.\n\n7. Explore an untold scene: This more experimental prompt allows Gemini to generate an original scene based on the book's content, such as a conversation between two characters after a specific event. Keep in mind that this feature may produce imaginative results that deviate from the original story.",
  "summary": "Google now lets Gemini Notebook read eligible ebooks you own. Here’s how to add a book and seven prompts for podcasts, quizzes, recaps and more.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "I almost gave up on Gemini until I finally understood its strengths",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/29/i-almost-gave-up-on-gemini-until-i-finally-understood-its-strengths",
        "published": "2026-08-29T16:30:15.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}