Kobo Books - eBooks Audiobooks

Kobo Books

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About this app

Join millions of booklovers across the globe and access your very own portable reading world. Go shelf-less and take your reading adventures on the go. With over 5 million titles to choose from, there’s something for every type of reader and listener.

Introducing audiobooks from Kobo—our brand new expertly curated collection. Discover the best deal on audiobooks when you subscribe. You earn Kobo Super Points every purchase. With all your eBooks and audiobooks together, the Kobo App is all you need.**

The Kobo App allows you to browse our growing collection of the world's best eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels, and children's books, to enjoy instantly on your smartphone or tablet. Search by author, title, topic or genre to discover your next great read.

Check out Kobo’s free eBook selection to discover a new favourite.

Take a look at our most popular and trending eBooks, updated hourly!

Browse now on the Kobo website.

The Kobo App makes reading even more comfortable and convenient:

• Customize the way you read. Enjoy crisp, clear text in the size and style you prefer. Try Night Mode to make reading easier on your eyes before bedtime, and lock the screen in portrait or landscape mode.

• Our beautifully designed, easy-to-use player makes it simple for you to move through your audiobook with a single touch. Never worry about losing your spot, and see how much time is left at a glance. Schedule it to turn off after a set amount of time—perfect for listening before going to sleep.

• Discover recommendations just for you for eBooks and audiobooks we think you’ll love. Read thousands of free eBook previews or listen to audiobook samples to help you find your next favourite.

• Start reading on one device and pick up on another. The Kobo App always remembers where you left off, so you can keep reading across all your devices.

• Rate and review the books you’ve read or read reviews from booklovers like you!

• Read in English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, or Japanese.

**Audiobooks available in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. You can listen to audiobooks on smartphones and tablets running Android version 4.4 or higher.

Ratings and reviews

I took a subscription to kobo plus audiobook a few days ago. The app does what it's supposed to do, most of the time. Keeping my place in the audiobook is somehow an issue, the only one, tho it is major in importance... I reopen the app now and then to find my spot has jump 10h + onward. It's a nightmare, really. I'm going to cancel my subscription.

What's the point? It doesn't work offline. So not possible to read books on a plane, subway, remote locations etc. Utterly useless. Kobo tell me it's just a bug that will be fixed. I'm not sure I believe them 🤔 If it was just a "bug" why does a very clear text box appear stating that you need to be online? Edit. I have no idea what's changed, I've not done anything, not updated anything, but it now works. I'm happy ! So rating changed.

The app is clunky and not very responsive. After you add a book to your library you can't cleanly get back to where you were and often have to completely restart your search. It's not easy to nav from a book to the author or other books in the series. It needs a lot of attention on the UX. Unfortunately, the app experience is much better than navigating directly on the Kobo EReader. :( Also, I set up a Kobo Plus trial but the app and reader both constantly prompt me to upgrade to Plus anyway.

What's new

We continually update the Kobo Books app to improve on its reliability and performance.

For our final release of 2023, we've fixed some bugs and made general improvements.

Thanks for reading with Kobo Books!