Amazon is including a brand new synthetic intelligence (AI) function to Kindle units that may assist customers rapidly refresh their reminiscence whereas studying a e-book collection. Introduced on Wednesday, the brand new function is dubbed Recaps, and it’ll present a brief AI-generated recap of the books already learn in a collection to convey the consumer up to the mark earlier than they learn the following e-book. The e-commerce big is at the moment rolling out the brand new function by way of an over-the-air (OTA) replace within the US. Notably, in November 2024, Amazon added an analogous X-Ray Recaps feature to its video streaming platform, Prime Video.

Kindle Units Will Now Present an AI-Generated E-book Recap

In a newsroom post, the Seattle-based tech big detailed the brand new function, which is being rolled out to Kindle customers within the US. The AI-powered Recaps function is designed to assist these readers who discover it troublesome to get again right into a e-book collection as a result of they don’t need to learn older books to recollect key plot particulars.

This situation significantly happens when a e-book collection is just not full and the reader has gone via the launched titles. By the point the following e-book arrives, the reminiscence of the occasions has light. Many readers decide to learn via a collection in continuity due to this situation, which has its downsides, akin to studying fatigue and style boredom.

Amazon’s newest function solves this drawback by offering readers a brief, AI-generated recap of the books they’ve already learn in order that they will transfer on to the following title with out a problem. The recap incorporates plot factors, a storyline abstract, and character arcs. The corporate warns that the recaps will include spoilers of the earlier books. At present, the function is on the market for less than English language ebooks which might be a part of a collection.

Notably, Amazon solely recognises these books as part of a collection that have been bought or borrowed from its digital retailer. So, even when books added from different sources are a part of a collection, they won’t present as such within the Kindle library, and the Recaps function won’t work.

Customers who’ve entry to the function can attempt it out by in search of the “View Recaps” button within the collection web page of their Kindle Library. Alternatively, it can be discovered as an choice inside the collection grouping three-dot menu. Updating the e-reader is important earlier than the function turns into seen. Amazon has not shared when the function may very well be launched in additional areas.