Application Description
All the books you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere you are.
Google Play Books is the ultimate app for buying and enjoying ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. Choose from millions of best-selling titles, including ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. Once you're finished, discover your next favorite read with personalized recommendations. Buy audiobooks and ebooks as you go – no subscription required.
Here's what you can expect:
- Vast Selection: Choose from millions of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics.
- Flexible Purchasing: Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go – no subscription required.
- Preview Before You Buy: Sample books before making a purchase.
- Exclusive Discounts: Get extra discounts on select bundles.
- Stay Updated: Receive emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and when your wishlisted books go on sale.
- Earn Rewards: Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, then exchange them for Google Play credit.
- Price Drop Alerts: Receive notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
- Discover New Reads: Discover new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across genres like romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.
Best-in-class reading and listening experience:
- Cross-Platform Access: Read or listen on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even when you’re offline.
- Seamless Syncing: Pick up where you left off on any device.
- Personalized Reading: Customize your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
- Track Your Progress: See what percent you’ve read and how many pages you have left.
- Organized Library: Organize your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre. View your shelves across Android, iOS, and the web.
- Storage Flexibility: Save to SD card. Choose to save your books to the device or an SD card, so you never run out of space.
- Enhanced Children's Books: Use reading tools in children's books to get kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or hear the book read aloud.
- Immersive Comic Reading: Use Bubble Zoom for easier comic reading on a mobile device. Tap the page and watch your favorite comic or manga come to life.
- Collaborative Note-Taking: Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
- Reading Tools: Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages while you read.
- Night Mode: Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.
What's New in the Latest Version 2024.10.4.0 (240976)
Last updated on Oct 14, 2024
Arriving in 2023.6.12
- Reading practice feature is now available in select books in Tools for beginning readers. The microphone needs to be turned on to hear you, yet won’t keep anything you say.
Recently added
- Multiple library improvements, including multiselect, improved filtering, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index to jump to a specific title or author.
- Navigation improvements to reach series pages.
- The wishlist tab.
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