Google Play Books

Google LLC

About this app

Google Play Books is the one app that you need to buy to 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’ve finished, find your next favourite from recommendations personalised 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 favourite 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 favourite authors and series.
* Discover new releases, best sellers and personalised recommendations across genres like romance, science fiction, mystery and thrillers, self-help, religion, non-fiction 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.
* Customise your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness and background colours.
* Track your reading progress. See what percentage you’ve read and how many pages you have left.
* Organise 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 that you never run out of space.
* Use reading tools in children's books to get child-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 favourite 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 favourite pages while you read.
* Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background colour and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.

Ratings and reviews

Update: It's even worse! Listening to an audiobook this weekend (cast to a Google TV) has resulted in the book totally restarting from the beginning multiple times and prompting me to "resume listening." Playback will "resume" hours off the mark. AWESOME NEW FEATURE: Now your audiobook will just skip and go quiet at random intervals, like a CD player in the backseat of a bumpy car. I don't know why this feature was added, but it affects downloaded audiobooks and it really, really sucks.

To me, the app is a great way to enjoy reading while waiting for an appointment or when carrying a real book isn't optional or lends itself to certain surroundings. There are very reasonable prices, and I've take advantage of free books offered to explore authors, with whom I'm not familiar. I have read great books that way. So, when a regular book isn't optional for all surroundings, Google Books work out well in most situations. I've recommended the app to other book lovers. Check it out!

absolutely outstanding. I'm listening to song of ice and fire right now. Do you know how ridiculous it is to read it? I'm reading the books. I'm in book four. it's only been a couple of years. buy a couple. I mean multiple. almost probably not. definitely 10 but could be now listening to it. on the other hand, also much easier to picture everything and q in on the important things and forget about all the fluff talk about living room furniture description

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 that 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