[HN Gopher] Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini...
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       Create personal illustrated storybooks in the Gemini app
        
       Author : xnx
       Score  : 25 points
       Date   : 2025-08-05 21:14 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
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       | xnx wrote:
       | The quality of the images, text, and layout was very high for the
       | simple prompt I tried it with.
        
       | bongodongobob wrote:
       | I can't seem to get it to work. It just summarizes whatever I
       | plug in.
       | 
       | Edit: Even without giving it context, at best, just get a single
       | picture and two paragraphs. Maybe they are slowly rolling the
       | feature out. It doesn't seem to get it.
        
         | xnx wrote:
         | Try this link: https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook
        
       | gigel82 wrote:
       | Damn... pretty good. Generated a 10 page booklet including high
       | quality graphics and cohesive story right on point with my
       | prompt. It would've taken me at least an hour mucking around with
       | LLMs and image generators to get the same result that it spit out
       | in ~30 seconds.
        
         | bongodongobob wrote:
         | Are you just asking it to make a Storybook? I can't get it to
         | work. Just an image and two paragraphs.
        
           | xnx wrote:
           | Try this link: https://gemini.google.com/gem/storybook
        
       | aeontech wrote:
       | The ending tag in the demo video is "For stories only you could
       | imagine"
       | 
       | That's... uh... a pretty bold description for a tool where you
       | are in fact outsourcing the "imagination" part to the machine.
        
       | slongfield wrote:
       | I asked it to create the kind of storybook my toddler would have
       | asked for ("create a storybook about a music truck and an ice
       | cream truck and a mailman and a carwash", inspired by his request
       | for a story last night), and the results were certainly...
       | interesting.
       | 
       | Obviously Gemini doesn't know that "music truck" is another name
       | for "ice cream truck", but more concerningly, the illustrations
       | it made for the trucks were this kind of eldritch amalgamation of
       | Cars-movie style cars and people driving cars. The story was just
       | OK, I don't think it would have kept my toddler's attention for
       | the whole ten pages. Plus, the mailman is barely involved.
        
       | bionhoward wrote:
       | gemini app is really funny because they ship ridiculously
       | complicated features like this before fixing the basic ability to
       | have a chat history with apps activity turned off
       | 
       | Imagine the meetings where they decide to add personal
       | illustrated storybooks before fixing chat histories
        
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