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Kobo Books

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About this app

Your library, always with you:

Step into a world of words and voices with the Kobo Books App, your ultimate companion for reading and listening. Designed with booklovers in mind, this app transforms your device into your own digital library, capable of carrying millions of eBooks and audiobooks with you anywhere.

With access to browse millions of eBooks and audiobooks, there's something for every reader to discover and enjoy. Our growing collection spans every genre imaginable: from thrilling mysteries and captivating romances to insightful nonfiction, imaginative fantasy, vibrant graphic novels, classic comics, and enchanting children's stories. Explore our selection with ease and search effortlessly by author, title, topic, or genre. Enjoy a truly integrated library experience, keeping all your eBooks and audiobooks perfectly organized in one place.

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Discover more reading and listening with Kobo Plus:

Where endless reading sprees begin, Kobo Plus offers unlimited access to more than 3 million eBooks and 400,000 audiobooks. Discover exclusive originals and hidden gems you won't find anywhere else. Choose the perfect plan that meets your reading needs with plans offering limitless access to eBooks, audiobooks, or both. Enjoy total flexibility with zero commitments.

An app designed for your comfort and convenience:

The Kobo Books App was created to make every moment with your stories as enjoyable and effortless as possible:

• Tailor your experience by adjusting text size and style, or activate Night Mode to enjoy comfortable, eye-friendly reading. Choose to set your screen to portrait or landscape for ultimate comfort.

• Listen effortlessly with our intuitive audiobook player, allowing you to navigate, pause, and track your progress with ease. Plus, easily set a sleep timer for perfect bedtime listening.

• Pick up where you left off, without ever losing your spot. Your reading progress automatically syncs between the Kobo Books App, Kobo Web Reader, and your Kobo eReader, letting you read across all your devices.

• Enjoy reading books in your preferred language, with support for English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese.

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**Audiobooks available only in select countries. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.

Ratings and reviews

Unusable since last update. All annotations and bookmarks gone. Covers and titles from imported books are also gone. Customer support said to reinstall app so now all my books are gone from the app and I can only import one book back at a time. It did not even help the cover and title issues. Never had any issues before the recent update.

Highlighting parts of the text works poorly. Often text selection fails or the highlight is not saved. Flipping pages is also a poor experience as I often get the same page after going to the next page. Sometimes it even skips a page! Maybe these issues are related to the book I'm reading now but one would expect the quality of each Kobo book, bought in the store, behaves the same.

Let's be clear, I like reading with this app. However, it is fairly buggy. It doesn't seem to remember your custom settings, so sometimes you'll open it to a very bright screen. That also happens when the screen times out and you turn it back on. I don't like apps that override system brightness settings anyway. It switched to light mode when I put the system on dark mode, very odd. The widget often opens to a blank page, which is fairly useless. Once I'm reading, it's pretty good though.

What’s new

We’ve rebuilt the app from the ground up to make reading and listening more seamless, beautiful, and intuitive than ever.

What’s new:
 • Guest Mode: Browse and preview books instantly, no account needed.
 • Listen Bar: Your audiobook controls, always within reach.
 • Faster checkout: Spend less time buying and more time diving into your next great story.

Happy reading!