It has happened to all of us at some point that you put a book away for a while, and when you come back you don’t remember part of the plot, or who a certain character was. Searching the Internet is a bad idea, because you may find some spoilers. For these cases, The Kindle app launches an AI that gives you a hand.
If you use Kindle, you will be able to ask the artificial intelligence things about an ebook: who a certain character is, what happened in chapter 1, why a certain character did a certain thing, etc.
The best of all is that the AI only uses information from the beginning of the book to the point where you have readto avoid spoilers.
This is how the new Kindle AI works
At the moment this function, which is called Ask this Book (Ask this book)is only available in the Kindle app for iOS, and only with “a few thousand” books in English. But in the press release, Amazon clarifies that it will reach Kindle ebook readers, and Android, next year. Hopefully also in Spanish.
It is possible to select the function Ask this Book from the Kindle menu, or simply by highlighting a passage from the ebook.
«This feature acts as your expert reading assistant, instantly answering questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements without interrupting your reading flow. All answers provide immediate, contextual, and spoiler-free information,» Amazon says.
It is not the first use of artificial intelligence in Kindlesby Amazon. A couple of months ago it premiered the Summaries feature. It works in a very similar way to the “Previously on…” segment that appears before starting an episode in a television series.
This tool gives you a summary of the books you have already read in a series or sagareviewing the plots and character arcs. Very useful if you are a fan of Brandon Sanderson or another author of long sagas, you are going to start a book, but you want to review what has happened in previous installments.
Little by little artificial intelligence comes to Kindle devicesand it seems that this time they are really useful tools.