Gemini Notebook Adds Hundreds of Free Textbooks to Create Study Guides and Quizzes
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Gemini Notebook, Google's AI notebook, is adding hundreds of textbooks at no cost to students. S Chand Publishing, OpenStax and Open Textbook Library, from the United States and India, are among the sources, and every answer rests on the chosen book with citations and links to its origin. From them, study guides, quizzes and flashcards can be generated.
Google has expanded Gemini Notebook, its AI notebook that works from the sources a user adds to it, with hundreds of free textbooks. The announcement, posted on the company's blog on October 29, is aimed at students who need material for their courses.
The books come from providers in the United States and India, among them OpenStax, Open Textbook Library and S Chand Publishing, and they cost nothing inside the notebook. When a book is added, the assistant's replies are drawn from its content, with citations in the text and links that lead back to the original source. The same material can also be turned into tailored study guides, practice quizzes, flashcards and other formats.
To find them, select "Add sources" in the notebook and then "Textbooks", where the catalog sits. Until now, compatible ebooks bought on Google Play Books could already be added. Google frames the change within Expert Intelligence, an initiative introduced the month before to work with trusted sources through its AI products. The post does not say which languages the books are in or whether more providers will follow.
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Until now, using a book in Gemini Notebook required having bought it on Google Play Books; with a free catalog, the starting point no longer depends on the student's wallet. The value is not the volume but that each answer points to a specific passage, which lets people check what the assistant says instead of trusting it blindly. The limits are also visible: the offer comes from two countries and the post does not detail languages or subjects, so anyone teaching in Spanish may find little usable material. An academy, a teacher or an in-house training team can try it with a textbook they know well, check whether the citations lead to the right place and decide what kind of notes it can be trusted to generate.
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