Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Google LLC

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

What have you done with my favorite book app? It was easy to use, great selection of titles, and readily accessible functions to keep my extensive library in order. Now it's a real MESS! I want all my titles undownloaded in view and permanently delete each title as I finish each book. I almost never re-read. That used to be easy. Now titles download on their own. Can't delete download, opens wrong title, won't accept touch directions, selects mine plus a nearby as well. Pulling out my hair

The app flips through ebooks okay, with flaws. If you're just reading page to page, it's okay. But if you want to go back, and review a chapter, it's not so simple. The navigation to the front of the book table of contents is wonky. Supposedly you tap the screen, but what happens is when you tap the word highlights and dictionary appears. Please make a slider or ability to get to table of contents. Secondly, the read aloud capability is awful. It is way too fast, and natural is not natural

Limited customization. Would be nice if I can use the font style, size, color, and height as well as background color and scrolling modes of my preference. The current options are basic and boring. Also, it's extremely touch sensitive that it's obstructive. Accidental tapping turns the page, brings you to options menu, etc. It makes me dizzy. It's simple yet so inconvenient to use.

What's new

Arriving in 2023.04.17
* Multiple library improvements, including multiselect, improved filtering, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index to jump to a specific title or author

Recently added
* Navigation improvements to reach series pages
* The wishlist tab