How To Study A Book With NotebookLM In 2026 - Full Guide

0:00In today's video, I will show you how to study a book using Notebook LM. Very easy and very simple. If you find the video helpful, please give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel. Now, Notebook LM is part of Google Gemini, so you need to go ahead and log into your Gemini.google.com account. On the left side here, under notebooks, you want to click on this plus icon that says

0:24new notebook. From here, we are going to go ahead and type in my book number one, for example. Then, I'm going to click on study and learn or organize your ideas. It depends. Then, click on this little arrow here. It will take us to a new tab, and from here, what we are going to do is I'm

0:45going to click on add sources. Now, you want to add your book. If it's a I mean it's it's a PDF, for example, a Word document. Or if you have your book in your Google Drive, go ahead and click on add from Drive. Or if you have your book as a website URL, click on it. Or you can click on copy text, but this is not I mean possible. You cannot paste a book here unless it is very short. For the sake of this video, I'm going to click on upload files and use one of my books, one that I have

1:15personally created. And I go to my Discord and click on this one here, most common expressions. Okay, now it is processing or uploading our book. Once it is done, we are going to go ahead and move to the next step, okay? This will help you, for example, if you want to get information summarized, for example, analyze the book, get general ideas of that book or what it is talking about. I mean, it's going to be a lot helpful, okay? So, this is our source now fully added. I'm going to close this. Then, we want to go to the top right corner here and click on Gemini

1:50notebook. A new tab will open up. From here, we are going to choose what do want to make out of that source? Is it an audio overview slide deck, mind map, flash cards, infographic, reports, quiz, data table, or video overview, okay? It depends on what you want, so you want to go ahead and choose what best describes your goal. Here at the bottom, you have this chat box that you can go ahead and ask specific questions about the book, for example, and Notebook will get back to you with answers. For example, you can say, "How do I greet people and introduce myself in Moroccan Arabic?" This is part of the

2:27book. Let me click on it. And as you can see, it says, "Reading and searching our book." Now, it will give us the answer. Okay, reviewing greetings, blah blah blah, okay. So, it takes a little bit of time. And as you can see, actually, this is what's in my book. As I said, I have written this book myself, so this is what's in the book, okay? This is how to greet and check in in Moroccan Arabic,

2:51right? Okay. And once you have got an answer, for example, you can go ahead and save it from here. Save to note. Okay. As you can see, it is now added to our notes. You can add or you can ask other questions if you want. What expression should I use in Moroccan cafe, for example? It will go back and then scan your book and give you the answer. So, these are the different methods that you can use if you want to re to study, analyze, or I mean, let's say report a book using Notebook

3:30LM. As you can see, this is the answer. Let me click on save again. And the answer will be saved to our notes, okay? So, this is it, guys. I hope this video helps. Thank you for watching.