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title: "AI Quick Tips 394: Gemini Notebook has featured notebooks built around popular books"
description: Gemini Notebook's new featured notebooks, enhanced with resources like podcasts and research papers, even for non-book owners.
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# [AI Quick Tips 394: Gemini Notebook has featured notebooks built around popular books](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/ai-quick-tips-394-gemini-notebook-has-featured-notebooks-built-around-popular-books)

 Written by [Damien Griffin](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/author/damien) | Oct 20, 2026, 6:45:00 PM

If you aren’t familiar with the name, [Gemini Notebook](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/tag/gemini-notebook) is what [NotebookLM](https://thoughtsbrewing.com/blog/tag/notebooklm) is called now…

The featured notebooks referenced in the title have the reference book (if you’ve purchased it on Google Play Books) AND multiple additional resources like -

- Podcasts with the authors
- Research papers
- Supplemental reading
- Etc.

Even if you don’t have the book, the notebooks can still be valuable just because of the additional resources. In most cases, they also have artifacts created and available (i.e. infographics, slide decks, videos, etc.)

You can spot the notebooks because they will have a book icon in the upper left corner of the notebook button (if you mouse over it, it will say “Full book”) -

There are at least a dozen in there so far, including titles like -

- The Lean Startup
- The Power of Habit
- Life at the Speed of Play
- Radical Candor
- Thinking in Bets
- Etc.

 

 

#### Watch the Video Demo:

 

 

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