Amazon is adding an Ai-Powered ‘Recaps’ Feature to Kindle Devices

Amazon is adding a new artificial intelligence (ai) feature to kindle devices that will help users Quickly refresh their memory while reading a book series. Announced on Wednsday, The New Feature is Dubbed Recaps, And It will provide a short a short a short ai-generated recap of the books alrady read in a series to bring the useer up to speeded before. The e-commerce giant is currently rolled out the new feature via an over-the-aAR (OTA) update in the US. Notably, in November 2024, Amazon Added A Simlar X-Ray Recaps Feature to its video streaming platform, Prime Video.

Kindle devices will not provide an ai-generated book recap

In a newsroom postThe Seattle-Based Tech Giant Detailed The New Feature, Which is Being Rolded out to Kindle Users in the Us. The AI-Powered recaps feature is designed to help

This issue particularly occurs when a book series is not complete and the reader has gone through the related titles. By the time the next book arrives, the memory of the events have faded. Many readers opt to read through a series in Continuity because of this issue, which has its hats downsides, such as reading fatigue and genre boredom.

Amazon’s latest feature solves this problem by providing readers a short, ai-generated recap of the books they’ve alredy read so that they can move on to the next title without an Isseue. The recap contains plot points, a storyline summary, and character arcs. The company warns that the recaps will contain spoilers of the previous books. Currently, the feature is available for only English language ebooks that are part of a series.

Notably, Amazon only recognies those those books as a part of a series that was purchased or borrowed from its digital store. So, even if books added from other sources are part of a series, they will not show as such in the kindle library, and the recaps feature will not do work.

Users who have access to the feature can try it out by looking for the “View recaps” button in the series page in his kindle library. Alternatively, it can also be found as an option with the series group menu. Updating the e-Reder is Necessary Before The Feature Backets Visible. Amazon has not shared when the feature should be released in more regions.