The Kindle app’s new feature will provide AI-generated tips to explain your book’s plot or how the characters relate to one another, though it’s currently only available on the iOS version.
Whether you’re reading dense, challenging 19th-century classics or the latest thriller, sometimes even the best readers lose track of what’s actually going on, such as who’s who or how characters relate to each other.
Now, Amazon is rolling out a new feature via the Kindle iOS app that uses AI to give readers answers about the books in their Kindle library—whether authors choose to opt in or not. Called Ask This Book, the new feature allows users to highlight any passage from a book they’ve bought or borrowed on their iPhone’s Kindle app and ask questions about what they’re reading without leaving the page. For example, it can fill readers in on plot details or explain who certain characters are.
Amazon didn’t disclose exactly how many books the feature is currently available for, but said “thousands” of bestselling English-language books have been enabled.
