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Amazon Introduces Ask This Book AI Feature for the Kindle App, Provides Spoiler-Free Answers
Amazon has introduced an AI feature called Ask this Book to the Kindle app on iOS. It lets readers ask questions about their current or past books and get spoiler-free answers. Users can query plot points, characters or highlighted passages without breaking their reading flow. The feature is currently limited to English books in the US, with Androi...
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Apple Books Digital Narration Announced, Will Let Indie Authors, Small Publishers Create Audiobooks
Apple has introduced digital narration technology for Ebooks available in the Apple Books store. The company has launched AI-enabled voice assistants that will read books for users. The feature is currently available for romance and fiction books only. Also, the feature is only available in English at present.
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Watch: UP School Teachers Couldn't Read In English During Test, Suspended
Two teachers of a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao were suspended for not being able to read a few lines in English from a book during an inspection.
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Blog: The growing distance between me and Assamese
For the past 10 years, I have earned a living by speaking before a camera and holding a microphone. So, it's not natural for me to get goosebumps when asked to speak before a live audience. I was invited by the National Book Trust to be part of a panel discussion at a book fair in Nazira, an oil township of Upper Assam. The topic was the role of ma...
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Nursery textbooks which read B for 'Bomb' and C for 'Chakoo' seized in UP
Following news reports, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has seized copies of a book of English alphabets for nursery students that carried violent words such as bomb and 'chakoo' (knife) and slapped a show cause notice on the school that had prescribed the book. UP Joint Education Director Vikas Srivastava led the raid to St. Marks School in Uday...
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Amazon Introduces Ask This Book AI Feature for the Kindle App, Provides Spoiler-Free Answers
Amazon has introduced an AI feature called Ask this Book to the Kindle app on iOS. It lets readers ask questions about their current or past books and get spoiler-free answers. Users can query plot points, characters or highlighted passages without breaking their reading flow. The feature is currently limited to English books in the US, with Androi...
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Apple Books Digital Narration Announced, Will Let Indie Authors, Small Publishers Create Audiobooks
Apple has introduced digital narration technology for Ebooks available in the Apple Books store. The company has launched AI-enabled voice assistants that will read books for users. The feature is currently available for romance and fiction books only. Also, the feature is only available in English at present.
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Watch: UP School Teachers Couldn't Read In English During Test, Suspended
Two teachers of a government school in Uttar Pradesh's Unnao were suspended for not being able to read a few lines in English from a book during an inspection.
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Blog: The growing distance between me and Assamese
For the past 10 years, I have earned a living by speaking before a camera and holding a microphone. So, it's not natural for me to get goosebumps when asked to speak before a live audience. I was invited by the National Book Trust to be part of a panel discussion at a book fair in Nazira, an oil township of Upper Assam. The topic was the role of ma...
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Nursery textbooks which read B for 'Bomb' and C for 'Chakoo' seized in UP
Following news reports, the Uttar Pradesh (UP) government has seized copies of a book of English alphabets for nursery students that carried violent words such as bomb and 'chakoo' (knife) and slapped a show cause notice on the school that had prescribed the book. UP Joint Education Director Vikas Srivastava led the raid to St. Marks School in Uday...
