All the books you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere you are.
Google Play Books is the ultimate app for those who cherish reading and listening. With it, you can dive into a vast collection of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga, all at your fingertips.
Explore a universe of content with millions of best-selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your choice to enjoy on the go. Once you're done, let our personalized recommendations guide you to your next great read or listen. And the best part? You can buy audiobooks and ebooks whenever you want, without the need for a subscription.
Here's what you can do with Google Play Books:
- Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription required.
- Preview samples before you buy, ensuring you get exactly what you want.
- Take advantage of extra discounts on select bundles.
- Stay informed with emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and when your wishlisted books go on sale.
- Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, which you can exchange for Google Play credit.
- Get notified about price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
- Discover new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across various genres including romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.
Experience a top-notch reading and listening journey:
- Enjoy your books on Android, iOS, or any web browser, even offline.
- Seamlessly pick up where you left off on any device.
- Customize your reading experience by adjusting text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
- Track your reading progress with detailed statistics on the percentage read and pages left.
- Organize your library into shelves using the new shelves tab, allowing you to curate your collection by theme or genre across Android, iOS, and the web.
- Save your books to an SD card to ensure you never run out of space.
- Enhance children's books with reading tools that offer kid-friendly word definitions, audio playback of specific words, or full narration.
- Use Bubble Zoom for a better comic reading experience on mobile devices. Tap the page and watch your favorite comic or manga come to life.
- Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
- Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages as you read.
- Enable Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness, or set the app to use the OS brightness for a comfortable reading experience.
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.
