Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Google LLC

In-app purchases

About this app

Google Play Books is the one app you need to buy and enjoy ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga.

Choose from millions of best selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’re finished, find your next favorite from recommendations personalized just for you. Buy audiobooks and ebooks as you go - with no subscription required.


Choose from millions of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics
* Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription required.
* Preview samples before you buy.
* Get extra discounts on select bundles.
* Receive 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, then exchange them for Google Play credit.
* Receive notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
* Discover new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across genres like romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Best in class reading and listening experience.
* Read or listen on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even when you’re offline.
* Pick up where you left off on any device.
* Customize your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
* Track your reading progress. See what percent you’ve read and how many pages you have left.
* Organize your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre. View your shelves across Android, iOS, and the web.
* Save to SD card. Choose to save your books to the device or an SD card, so you never run out of space.
* Use reading tools in children's books to get kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or hear the book read aloud.
* Use Bubble Zoom for easier comic reading on a mobile device. 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 while you read.
* Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.

Ratings and reviews

The screen is way too bright. Even with brightness settings set to the minimum on my phone and on the app, with the black background and night mode on. Idk why, but if I use another app (Twilight) to reduce brightness, the contrast changes (only on Play Books) and you can't read the text anymore. I don't have that problem anywhere else on my phone. It's a shame cause the app has a night function and it's supposed to be enough but it is not. My eyes hurt. I'm using another app to read at night

Meets basic functionality of an ebook reader, but it stops there. The reader does not handle footnotes well, constantly dropping you into irrelevant pages with no obvious way back. Searching the store with an authors full name returns a bunch of irrelevant results. There's no way of getting from a book to a collection of works by the same author. Sadly it might be time for me to look elsewhere for ebooks.

One of the best books readers for the android. It helped me get in love with the digital books which can be customised by text, offline dictionary, background colour etc. But there are some things that lacks in it or else it will be the only best book reader and here are some: 1. It's not available on PC 2. It's dictionary is not updated and have bugs sometimes 3. There's always trouble uploading your own books which sometimes (after many attempts) doesn't show up in the books

What's new

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