Google Play Books & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
4.6
2.68M reviews
1B+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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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.
Updated on
Oct 14, 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region, and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.6
2.41M reviews
Polina Bikoulov
October 10, 2024
Used to like this app. Unfortunately, after recent update you can no longer delete uploaded books and files. You can only "hide them". This is very inconvenient, especially since I haven't heard of them increasing the limit of allowed books per account. It is not helpful in case you accidentally uploaded duplicate files. Have not found an option to access the "hidden" books, either. Very annoyed with this matter. Bring the "delete" button back!
23 people found this review helpful
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Google LLC
October 10, 2024
Hi Polina. Open the Google Play Books app. At the bottom, tap Library. Find the e-book or audiobook you want to remove. Under the cover, tap menu, then Remove Download. You can also tap ‘hide’ for books and audiobooks in your library that you don’t want to see on any device. Hidden items don’t appear in your library. Hope this helps.
Diana Petcheva
September 13, 2022
I love everything about this app (night mode, notetaking, organizing, etc), except downloading books. Some of my books are downloaded and stay downloaded, others are forever "downloading". Even when they finish downloading, refreshing the page, or setting my phone to airplane mode will say the book isn't downloaded. I've been having this issue for a few months now and I would love it if it could be fixed; I really wanna be able to read my downloaded books on the plane!
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Google LLC
September 14, 2022
Sorry you're having issues with your book, Diana! We'd be happy to help. Let's try these troubleshooting steps first: https://goo.gle/2Zsbssp. If these don't help, please contact us directly here: https://goo.gle/2QyJZSb.
A Google user
May 8, 2019
I can't take a book off my device and have it stored for me. Kindle does on their free app. Instead I have to keep it on my phone using up storage or I have to repurchase. Decided to try this again and was again infuriated. i tried searching a book title, first 50 generated titles were not even close to the actual title. Then I tried the author, nope that didn't work either. Absolutely useless!
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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