Google Play Books is an e-book reading application launched by Google. It presents millions of e-books to users, including novels, magazines, comics, etc. It not only has a rich collection of books, but also provides various personalized functions and easy settings.Your reading interface, including bookmarks and note-taking functions, can be seamlessly synchronized whether it is your personal computer, tablet or smartphone, ensuring that you can continue your reading journey instantly no matter where you are.
Google Play Books Features
Choose from millions of popular e-books, audiobooks and comics
E-books and audiobooks can be purchased as you go, no subscription required.
You can try it before buying.
Some book bundles also offer additional discounts.
You can receive emails or notifications when new books by your favorite authors are available or when a book on your wish list goes on sale.
Every book purchase earns you Google Play points, which can be redeemed for Google Play credits.
You can receive notifications or emails when the price of a trial book drops, or when new books from your favorite authors and series become available.
Discover all kinds of new books on shelves, bestsellers, and personalized recommended books, including romance, science fiction, suspense and thriller, growth inspiration, religion, documentary, and more.
Other Google Play Books features
Read or listen to books on your Android device, iOS device, or web browser, even when you're offline.
Pick up where you left off on any device.
Customize your personal reading experience.Adjust text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background color.
Track your reading progress.View the percentage read and the number of pages remaining.
Use bookshelves to organize books in your library.Use the new Bookshelf tab to manage your library by topic or type.View Bookshelf on Android devices, iOS devices, and the web.
Save books to SD card.You can choose to save your books to your device or to an SD card, so there's no need to worry about running out of space.
Use reading tools in children's books to get kid-friendly word definitions, hear the pronunciation of specific words, or have your device read the book aloud.
Enjoy comics more easily with Conversation Magnifier on your mobile device.Tap the page to bring your favorite comics to life on the screen.
Added notes are synced to your Google Drive and can be shared with group members for easy collaboration.
While reading, you can look up definitions, get translations, save annotations, and bookmark favorite pages.
, turn on the eye protection mode to automatically adjust the background color and brightness, or set the application to use the brightness of the operating system.
The application is steady and fast while maintaining a small amount of books known to such professions academically inclined. Other then that, the reader is exception, better then all, I'm guessing not apple though. The deals channel an [dark] impulse to buy, it's not phenomenal, but the round figure is saving 'alot' of money. In certain desktop connectivity, multi-windows of the same app do not exist, the main problem, elsewise the desktop android, I believe, is superior then ubuntu, surprise!
As others have said, this used to be a good app. Now, it is unbelievably slow to load your library when opened. Seriously. Every time I open it I just think, wow, Google actually puts out a product in 2024 that can't do literally the only thing it needs to do in less than a minute. And recently it's even worse: when I try to add books, sometimes nothing happens. No error message saying it can't do this basic thing, just nothing, leaving me waiting until I realize that I'm wasting my time, again.
I was initially hesitant to use this app but it was preloaded on my tablet so I decided to try it and I'm glad I did. I love how many books are available. I feel like this app gives my tablet more function and saves me having a Kindle. I like the idea of the recommendations but I feel like this could be tuned in a little better. The comics & graphic novels have their own discount area but also show up in the others. I feel it's redundant and would like them to stay out of the other discounts.
Thank you for the update on the Read Aloud function. Now it sounds more natural when it's reading interrogative sentences. Love it! Also the dictionary really make it easier not to pop in or out the reading to check on other dictionary app. However, the reading often stops every few sentences then picks up after quite some time. Please fix it. Thank you!
So glad this exists. Can't even remember if I downloaded it or if it came with my new phone. But it allowed me to delete an old player that I kept simply because it was the only that did a very specific thing. This does everything I want it to and it does it well. My only issue is at some point the voice speed changed. Only two settings that affect the speed now, each is either too fast or too slow in my opinion. Add a speak speed setting and it's perfect.