diff --git a/.github/workflows/test_latest_versions.yml b/.github/workflows/test_latest_versions.yml
index 30b7b3c..cc0d062 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test_latest_versions.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test_latest_versions.yml
@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ jobs:
           pip install tox
       - name: Test using tox environments
         shell: bash
-        # One invocation rather than two, so that the extension is compiled once and
-        # the resulting wheel is installed into both environments. Running `tox -e py`
-        # and `tox -e mpi` as separate commands would compile it twice.
+        # One invocation rather than several, so that the extension is compiled once and
+        # the resulting wheel is installed into each environment. Running them as
+        # separate commands would compile it once per environment.
         #
-        # Not --parallel: the two environments would then race to install the same
-        # wheel, and the MPI tests want the runner's cores to themselves.
+        # Not --parallel: the environments would then race to install the same wheel,
+        # and the MPI tests want the runner's cores to themselves.
         run: |
-          tox -e py,mpi
+          tox -e py,notebook,mpi
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2d82d7b..039b5d1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -31,10 +31,21 @@ dependencies = [
 ]
 
 [project.optional-dependencies]
-test = [
+basetest = [
     "pytest>=8.0",
+]
+test = [
+    "sbd-eigensolver[basetest]",
     "pytest-mpi>=0.6",
 ]
+nbtest = [
+    "sbd-eigensolver[basetest]",
+    "nbmake>=1.5.0",
+]
+notebook-dependencies = [
+    "qiskit-addon-sqd>=0.13.1",
+    "pyscf>=2.9",
+]
 
 [project.urls]
 Homepage = "https://github.com/Qiskit/sbd-eigensolver-python"
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index dee9a7c..75068c6 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tox]
 minversion = 4.4.3
-envlist = py{310,311,312,313,314}, mpi
+envlist = py{310,311,312,313,314}{,-notebook}, mpi
 isolated_build = True
 
 [testenv]
@@ -52,6 +52,22 @@ setenv =
 commands =
     mpirun -n {env:SBD_TEST_NPROCS} pytest --only-mpi {posargs}
 
+# Spelled out with the hyphen outside the braces. Writing this as
+# {,py310-,py311-,...}notebook does not work: tox expands numeric ranges in a section
+# name before splitting it on braces, so `py314-` parses as `py3` plus the range `14-`,
+# which produces junk environment names and never defines py310-notebook and friends --
+# those then silently fall through to [testenv] and run the unit tests instead. Nesting
+# braces is not an alternative either; it crashes tox outright.
+[testenv:{notebook,py310-notebook,py311-notebook,py312-notebook,py313-notebook,py314-notebook}]
+# nbmake runs each notebook with its own directory as the working directory, so the
+# relative paths the examples use to reach the vendored data resolve as they would for
+# someone running the notebook by hand.
+extras =
+    nbtest
+    notebook-dependencies
+commands =
+    pytest --nbmake --nbmake-timeout=3000 {posargs} python/examples/
+
 [testenv:slow]
 # The reference cases grow by roughly an order of magnitude in determinant count per
 # row of the upstream tables, and compute time scales worse than linearly in that, so