Kindle app now answers questions about the book you’re reading
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Amazon's new Kindle app feature, 'Ask this Book,' provides spoiler-free answers to questions about plot, characters, and themes by using only content from pages already read. It acts as an in-book chatbot accessible via the book menu or highlighted text, with authors unable to opt out.
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Amazon has launched a new AI feature in the Kindle app that gives spoiler-free answers to questions about the book you're reading and confirmed that authors can't opt out from the feature.
The company calls Ask this Book an "expert reading assistant" in its announcement and says that it's capable of answering questions about "plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements," all while avoiding spoilers by limiting its answers to content from the pages you've read so far. It's essentially an in-book chatbot, accessible from the book menu or by highlighting a passage of text you want to ask about.
Amazon spokesperson Ale Iraheta …