<div id="readability-page-1"><figure> <img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/kindle-ask-this-book.jpg/query-Y3JvcD0wLDAsMTAwLDEwMCZxdWFsaXR5PTkwJnN0cmlwPWFsbA?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" width="1688" height="1125" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/12/kindle-ask-this-book.jpg/query-Y3JvcD0wLDAsMTAwLDEwMCZxdWFsaXR5PTkwJnN0cmlwPWFsbA"/> <figcaption> The tool avoids spoilers by drawing answers from the pages you’ve read so far. </figcaption> </figure> 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 &#34;expert reading assistant&#34; in its announcement, and says that it's capable of answering questions about &#34;plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements,&#34; 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 Irahe … Read the full story at The Verge.</div>

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Amazon has introduced a new AI feature in the Kindle app called 'Ask this Book,' which provides spoiler-free answers to questions about the book you're reading. This feature answers questions about plot details, character relationships, and thematic elements based on the pages you've read so far. Authors cannot opt out of this feature.

- Amazon has introduced a new AI feature called Ask this Book in the Kindle app, designed to provide spoiler-free answers to readers' questions.  
- This tool answers inquiries about plot details, character relationships, and themes based solely on the content the reader has already encountered.  
- Authors are unable to opt out of this feature, which functions as an in-book chatbot accessible through the book menu or by highlighting text.

Kindle app now answers questions about the book you’re reading