Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Google LLC

In-app purchases

About this app

Dive into a world of stories with Google Play Books! Explore millions of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga — all in one app.

Key Features:

• Your library, anywhere: Enjoy books on your phone, tablet, computer, or even in your car with Android Auto. Plus, you can download books to read offline.

• Earn Google Play Points: Get rewarded with Play Points when you purchase books. Note: Play Points availability, award levels, and multiplier rates differ by country. Play Points isn’t available in all countries.

• Organize with shelves: Personalize your digital library with custom shelves to categorize your books by genre, author, or any theme you’d like.

• Smart notes: Jot down notes that sync with your Google Drive and can be shared for easy collaboration.

• No subscription needed: Buy only the books you want, when you want them.

• Kid–friendly reading tools: Let kids explore word definitions and listen to books aloud. Note: Reading practice tools are available in English only.

• Immersive comics: Experience Bubble Zoom for a specialized comic and manga reading experience.

• Preview before you buy: Check out samples to make sure it’s the perfect book for you.

• Hands–free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Google Assistant.

• Read your way: Customize your reading experience by adjusting the font, text size, brightness, and more.

• Book insights: Get more out of your book with recaps and insights – right from your page. Note: Book insights is available in select English language titles.

Millions of stories await on Google Play Books! Download now and start reading.

Ratings and reviews

This app was great. Then you got rid of the delete book option which was uncalled for. Today I've ran into a unique issue where alot of my older epubs won't open. Hundreds of books, all throwing an error when I try to access them. The newer files seem to be unaffected. Please look into this. I have loved and appreciated this app for 7 years but in the past year I feel the experience has gotten worse instead of better.

The thing that I liked the most is that almost every book is available on Play Books. I used it and its experience is impressive. It has features like offline reading, built-in dictionary and page turning animations get reduced difficulty while reading. But I want to give feedback to Google. We can't select a full line or a full paragraph to see its translation or definition. We can select only one word at a time. Google, please add the feature of selecting the whole page and translating it.

I use this app as a default ebook reader. Many a time, importing books take a lot of time, displays "processing". Most of the time, when I cancel it and import again, it might go well. Sometimes I had to abort the import and don't do it. Sometimes the alignment might not be good for imported books. Seems like the app needs more work on fixing bugs. Nice concept, though. Hope these would be fixed soon.

What’s new

New in version 2025.1.10

• Improved ease-of-use in ebook text selection menu

Check out these features

• Upload EPUB and PDF files and read them on all of your devices
• Download purchased ebooks and audiobooks (DRM-free if allowed by the publisher) to read on other devices such as Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo