Google Play Books & Audiobooks

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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

Highlighting feature has issues. For one, it doesnt have the magnifying glass that appears when moving an end, like Amazon Kindle does. The other iasue is that it seema like after you highlight, you cant change the bounds, only delete it. These two issues make it difficult to deal with in a way that compounds each other Plz fix! Dont let the warehouse slave owners beat you at this game

I cannot download the ebooks I have purchased for some reason. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app but it didn't work. It keeps saying "The book cannot be downloaded right now. Try again later." It's been like this all day. This is the first time I am having such an issue with google books. I can still download the samples of unpurchased ebooks though. This is very strange. Help. (april, 2025) issue seems fixed, not too sure how though, still a little slow, rating changed to 4 stars

Almost perfect (sometimes the UI has minor glitches) and I absolutely love the ability to upload epubs I bought elsewhere and have them available as part of my library. I'd love advanced library managing functions though, especially the possibility to create series from my books and browse by series instead of just shelves (which to me is more useful as genre-based organization).

What’s new

Arriving in version 2025.1.10

• An improved ebook text selection menu

Arriving in version 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.