翻訳待ち：Gemini Notebook can analyze your Google Play books now: 3 ways I use this feature

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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google.Google's Gemini Notebook helps you research and learn about different topics through AI-generated reports, slideshows, quizzes, audio podcasts, and more. To set this up, you can add specific sources of information to your notebook, such as websites, documents, images, audio files, and videos. Now, there's one more type of source you can include in your research, namely books from Google Play.This new capability works with books that you purchase through the Google Play store. For now, only certain books, authors, and publishers are supported. But the list is already a hefty one, with 100,000 titles from publishers such as Bloomsbury, De Gruyter Brill, Johns Hopkins University Press, Macmillan Publishers, O'Reilly Media, and Penguin Random House.Also: How to keep your conversations with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or Claude as private as possibleGoogle has also teamed up with more than 15 bestselling authors to create special featured notebooks that you can view and use by signing in to your Gemini Notebook page. These notebooks aim to supplement supported titles with additional sources and interesting details that let you explore the work of these authors.Integration with Google Play Books is the first step in the company's new Expert Intelligence initiative. The goal here is to help you better understand your favorite books, authors, and subjects, as well as incorporate them as sources in larger research projects. In the near term, Google plans to add more of its products beyond Play Books and support third-party subscriptions and textbooks."We've built the ability to add select ebooks you've purchased from Google Play Books directly to a Gemini Notebook," Google said in its blog post. "This makes it simple for you to ask questions about the book and receive responses grounded directly in that book. You can also use Gemini Notebook to help you understand books in new ways, for example, by generating Infographics, Audio Overviews, Quizzes, or more from the book."Since you need to own a book from Google Play to add it to a notebook, what happens when you share that notebook with another person? In that case, the book won't be available to them. Instead, the person will be prompted to buy their own copy to view and work with the content.How you can try thisYou can try this without purchasing any supported books by tapping into some of the featured notebooks. At your Gemini Notebook page, check out the featured notebooks at the top. Click View All to see more of them, and then select one that intrigues you. You can then explore the book and its subject matter by asking questions or adding them to a new notebook.As the next step, you might want to dive in with one of your own purchased books. OK, but how can you tell if a title is supported before you buy it? Here are a few ways.Also: How to get free Google AI Pro for an entire year - and save $240: 3 waysFirst, head to Google's Expert Intelligence page and scroll to the bottom. In the section for "Get started with an Expert Intelligence-eligible book," there is a carousel of supported titles. Just click on one that interests you to purchase it.Second, you can score one free book to kick off your collection. At the bottom of the same Expert Intelligence page is a limited-time offer for "Get your first book on us." Click the Redeem offer button. At the Google Play store, click Continue, choose your free title among the listed books, and then follow the steps to add it.Third, you're supposed to be able to tell whether a book is eligible on its page in Google Play Books. To do this, select a particular title to view its details page. Click the question mark on the Tools icon. If the book is supported, you should see Gemini Notebook listed. In my testing, however, this didn't work. Clicking on the Tools icon for several books that I know are supported didn't display any entry for Gemini Notebook. Perhaps Google is still in the process of updating Play Books with this information.Fourth, you can tell if a book is eligible through Gemini Notebook itself. Make sure you're signed in to your Gemini Notebook page. Create a new notebook or open an existing one. At the left sidebar, click the link to add a source. At the Sources window, select Play Books and then click the button to explore Google Play Books. Scroll to the bottom of the next page and select the image to find more books to add to Gemini Notebook. You can then browse the resulting page to look for compatible titles.Also: Google's AI can see your business data by default in Workspace - unless you disable itAfter you've bought some eligible books, go back to your Gemini Notebook page. Create a new notebook to explore or incorporate one or more of your purchased books. At the sidebar, click the link to add a source and then select Play Books as the source. Supported books appear at the top of the screen. Unsupported books appear below. Choose a book you want to explore, then click the button to add it as a source. From there, you can then ask questions about the book or incorporate it into your research.How I use Expert IntelligenceWith the new Google Play Books integration, I added a few books to my Gemini notebooks to research and explore them.1. Explore The Great GatsbyHere, I added F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic The Great Gatsby to a new notebook. To start, Gemini provided a summary of the book and suggested some questions I could ask. I posed one of my own questions, namely: "Delve into the relationship between Nick Carraway and Jordan Baker. Why is there this initial attraction between them, and why does the relationship eventually fall apart?" In response, the AI served up an interesting analysis of the interaction between the two characters.Next, I told Gemini to create a report based on its breakdown of the book. I could choose the format I wanted -- document, study guide, blog post, landscape analysis, narrative primer, or thematic guide. I chose the narrative primer. Here, the AI delivered a report that examined the motivations, social status, and outcomes of all the characters. 2. Explore Charles DickensNext, I wanted to explore the work of Charles Dickens through some of his novels. In a new notebook, I chose Play Books as the source and added seven books, including Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, The Pickwick Papers, and A Christmas Carol. Based on the novels I imported, I asked the AI to highlight and explain common themes in Dickens' work.Also: 5 ways I actually use ChatGPT Work in my small business to save time and moneyGemini described such themes as the cruelty and absurdity of incarceration and the legal system, the vulnerability and resilience of childhood and orphans, and institutional hypocrisy and perverted morality. I then asked it to generate an audio podcast, aka an audio overview, again telling it to focus on common themes in Dickens' work. In response, the conversation between the two AI hosts proved interesting and insightful, drawing on material from all seven of the books I included. 3. Explore our relationship with AIFor this one, I explored the topic of how we work with and relate to AI. First, I wanted to add some websites, so I searched for the topic of our relationship with AI and imported 7 online sources. Next, I added Word documents for several articles I had written about AI. Finally, I imported a Google Play book I had purchased, titled .After Gemini created a summary of the subject based on the sources, I asked it to explain the benefits and risks of emotional bonds with AI. In response, it succinctly and perceptively described the pros and cons of forming emotional attachments to AI.Also: Apple escaped Android's 'toxic hellstew' - now Siri AI is creating a new oneSince I enjoy the podcasts generated by Gemini, I asked it to create an audio overview, focusing on the Ethan Mollick book I had imported. I told it to describe the pros and cons of working with AI according to the sources but focus on the information in Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI. Here, the two AI hosts discussed the subject with an emphasis on the book, including passages and quotes from it. ZDNET's key takeawaysOverall, I enjoyed exploring specific books, authors, and topics through Gemini Notebook. With the sources I added, I was able not only to research different themes but also to see them in a new light.