Application Description

Discover all the books you love, whether you prefer reading on the page or listening out loud, with Google Play Books. This versatile app is your go-to destination for ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga, ensuring you have access to your favorite stories anytime, anywhere.

Dive into a vast selection of millions of best-selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. With Google Play Books, you can download your chosen book and enjoy it on the go. Once you've finished, the app's personalized recommendations will help you find your next favorite read or listen. Plus, you can purchase audiobooks and ebooks as you go, with no subscription required.

Key features include:

• Buy ebooks and audiobooks as you go - no subscription required.
• Preview samples before you buy to ensure it's the right fit for you.
• Get extra discounts on select bundles, making your reading experience even more rewarding.
• Stay updated with 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, which you can exchange for Google Play credit.
• Receive notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
• Explore new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations across various genres such as romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Google Play Books offers a best-in-class reading and listening experience:

• Enjoy your books on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even when offline.
• Seamlessly pick up where you left off on any device.
• Customize your reading experience by adjusting text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
• Track your reading progress with percentage read and pages remaining.
• Organize your library into shelves using the new shelves tab, curating by theme or genre, accessible across Android, iOS, and the web.
• Save books to an SD card to ensure you never run out of space.
• Utilize reading tools in children's books for kid-friendly word definitions, listening to specific words, or hearing the book read aloud.
• Use Bubble Zoom for an enhanced comic reading experience on mobile devices, bringing your favorite comic or manga to life with a simple tap.
• Take notes that sync with Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
• Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages while reading.
• Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness for comfortable reading in any environment.

What's New in the Latest Version 2024.10.4.0 (240976)

Last updated on Oct 14, 2024

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 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.

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