Overview
- The feature is live in the United States on the Kindle iOS app for thousands of English-language titles, with access limited to buyers and borrowers of each book.
- Readers can highlight a passage to ask about plot details, character relationships, or themes, with responses constrained to their current reading position to avoid spoilers.
- Amazon says answers are non-shareable and non-copyable, and the assistant supports follow-up questions within the same chat.
- An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the tool is always on for enabled books with no way for authors or publishers to opt out, a stance drawing objections from industry voices amid broader scrutiny of AI use of copyrighted texts.
- Amazon plans to bring the capability to Kindle e-readers and the Android app in 2026, and outlets note accuracy concerns after the company previously withdrew error-filled AI video recaps.