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.

• Organise with shelves: Personalise your digital library with custom shelves to categorise your books by genre, author or any theme that 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 that 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 specialised comic and manga reading experience.

• Preview before you buy: Check out samples to make sure that it’s the perfect book for you.

• Hands-free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Google Assistant.

• Read your way: Customise 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

The app ended up being pretty easy to use. It can still be a little awkward and slow to react. And it takes a little getting used to for knowing what's downloaded and where you are in some of the books, but for simple reading it works just fine. I set aside some time to configure book displays like I wanted (or as close as possible) and now it's good.

Google Play Books to me, is a great digital book, library edition for any reader on any device. Its interface is easy to understand. However, it can be challenging for some who may suffer from certain brain conditions. The outside looks have a brand emblem that's crisp in colors. Now, I have to be candid, but I have bought some of my fav authors' books, samples, etc. But honestly, I don't like to read and I'm a writer, published. Yikes, I said that out loud! 🙊 Great Book Library, Google. 💯

It works well for the most basic of use cases: reading. But it lacks a lot of features that other reader apps have. For instance, if you want to highlight text on multiple pages... nope! can't do that! Compare this to what Kindle app offers, or even some of the smaller apps offers, it's very bare-bones. At least the book prices are somewhat competitive!! And syncing books and progress across multiple devices works well.