Google’s Gemini Notebook Can Now Pull Content From Purchased Books

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Google added an “Expert Intelligence” feature to Gemini Notebook on 27 August 2026, allowing users to import books purchased on Google Play Books and interact with their contents through questions, generated plans, infographics, and AI podcasts.

More than 100,000 titles from publishers including Penguin Random House, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan Publishers, and O’Reilly Media support the feature at launch. Google also partnered with 15 authors - among them Michael Pollan, Kim Scott, Steven Pinker, and Jennifer Wallace - to produce “Featured Notebooks” that each author has customised with additional source material and introductory letters. Titles that support the feature display a “Gemini Notebook” badge under “Tools” in Google Play Books.

Google Labs editorial director Steven Johnson demonstrated the tool generating a recipe book from Pollan’s Food Rules and using Scott’s Radical Candor to advise on a workplace conversation. Sharing protections prevent users from accessing book content they have not purchased; they see the title listed as a source but are directed to buy it. Google plans to extend Expert Intelligence to AI Mode in Search, the Gemini app, and eventually to scholarly articles, magazines, and newspapers.

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