Key Facts

• Google Play Books' new Book insights feature uses artificial intelligence to help readers summarize chapters, clarify confusing text, and answer specific questions about their reading, available in select English titles on the Android app and web reader.
• The Book insights feature can be accessed by clicking the lightbulb icon or highlighting text in eligible ebooks, and it offers tools such as "Catch me up" to generate a recap of what the reader has already read.
• Book insights allows readers to highlight confusing text to see a few questions that will help clarify, and they can also ask their own questions in the "Ask Play Books" box to get spoiler-free answers.
• The AI tool is designed to give spoiler-free answers by only referencing the text up to the reader's current reading position, but it is experimental and may make mistakes.
• To celebrate the launch of Book insights, Google Play Books is offering a special promotion: earn 15 times the Play Points on any book purchases made between June 19 and June 21, regardless of the current Play Points level.