Kindle App for iOS New AI Features: Ask This Book, Story So Far, and Recaps Explained

Amazon has rolled out three AI reading tools to the Kindle app for iOS in the US, giving iPhone users access to features that are not yet available on most Kindle e-readers. The timing matters: owners of most Kindle models released before 2024 are locked out of two of the three tools on their e-readers, and the iOS app is now their only path to them. The tools are Ask this Book, Story So Far, and Recaps. Ask this Book is an in-book chatbot. Story So Far generates a summary of the current book tailored to where the reader has stopped. Recaps serve as a series refresher before picking up a new installment. All three are live for US iPhone users now. None are available on Android yet, and the two contextual tools are restricted to Kindle hardware released in 2024 or later. Amazon holds an estimated three-quarters of the e-reader market, Engadget reports. That share makes it notable when the company's newest reading tools land first on a competitor's platform rather than on the devices it