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.

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

Ratings and reviews

I have not only viewed, for "free," many "samples" of many books on Play Books, but I have also PURCHASED many of those exact same books. That said, why for "some" of those same Books that I had paid for, some I can copy and paste from with no restrictions, others, strangely enough, I can not, even though, in the end, I understand "copyrights" and so on and so on. My opinion: distracting, extra-burdensome, time-wasting--and, frankly, not a good way to keep one shopping at the same (ANY) store.

I’ve used Google Play Books for a long time and really like it overall, especially for uploading EPUBs, highlighting, and taking notes. But the Android app has a serious annotation sync issue. My highlights and notes are visible on Google Play Books web, even when opened from my phone’s browser, so they are clearly still saved to my account. But in the Android app, the same book shows none of those older highlights/notes after reinstalling or clearing app data. Reading position sync still work

the app is great for reading, but the organizational ability leaves a lot to be desired. you can make shelves but can't sort them into a custom order, which sucks because sometimes the titles have typos, so the predefined sorters just put it out of order anyway as a result. then there's the fact that the series tab is missing a lot of information. I own an entire book series, yet that tab stays completely empty, only showing it in my library.

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