Discover the joy of reading and listening to all your favorite books with Google Play Books, the ultimate app for enjoying ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. With a vast selection of millions of best-selling titles, including ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks, you can easily find and download your next great read or listen. The app offers personalized recommendations to help you discover new favorites, and you can purchase books as you go without needing a subscription.

Google Play Books provides numerous features to enhance your reading and listening experience. You can preview samples before purchasing, take advantage of special discounts on bundled items, and stay updated with emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and sales on wishlisted books. Plus, every purchase earns you Google Play Points, which you can redeem for Google Play credit.

The app ensures a seamless experience across devices, allowing you to read or listen on Android, iOS, or via your web browser, even offline. Pick up right where you left off on any device, and customize your reading experience with options to adjust text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors. Track your reading progress with detailed statistics on completion percentage and pages remaining.

Organize your collection using the new shelves tab, where you can curate your library by theme or genre, accessible across Android, iOS, and the web. Choose to save your books to your device or an SD card to manage storage efficiently. For younger readers, special tools in children's books offer kid-friendly word definitions, audio pronunciation, and read-aloud features. Comic and manga enthusiasts can enjoy the Bubble Zoom feature for a better mobile reading experience.

Enhance your engagement with the ability to take notes that sync with Google Drive, share them for collaboration, look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark favorite pages. Use Night Light to adjust the background color and brightness automatically or sync with your OS settings for a comfortable reading experience at any time.

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