While using NotebookLM, I discovered that each source can have up to 500,000 words. So I compiled a collection of snippets that I’ve saved inside Readwise into a single notebook. I have more than 5000 quotes in a single notebook.
I capture hundreds of quotes every year by highlighting passages in books I read with Kindle or online in a browser window.
Then I organise those snippets into one notebook.
Readwise lets me “Export to Docs” in a format that works very elegantly inside NotebookLM. The author, title, and page number gets attached to each quote from 610 books.
Once Readwise creates the Docs, I add them as sources to my “Reading History” Notebook.
Then I let NotebookLM to to work as I ask questions and explore new ideas. The most remarkable thing about all this is NotebookLM is an AI that has effectively consumed everything significant that I have read already. And because all the work is hyperlinked, I can click on citations and jump back directly to the original quotes.