Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Dive into a world of endless reading and listening pleasure with Google Play Books, your all-in-one destination for ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. With a vast selection of millions of best-selling titles across various genres, including romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, and nonfiction, you're sure to find your next favorite read or listen.

With Google Play Books, you can:

• Purchase ebooks and audiobooks as you go, with no subscription needed. Enjoy the freedom to buy what you want, when you want.
• Preview samples before making a purchase, ensuring you invest in content that captivates you.
• Take advantage of extra discounts on select bundles, making it even more rewarding to build your library.
• Stay updated with emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and special sales on your wishlisted books.
• Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, which you can later exchange for Google Play credit, enhancing your overall experience.
• Receive timely alerts for price drops on your samples and new releases from beloved authors and series.
• Explore new releases, best sellers, and personalized recommendations tailored to your tastes, ensuring you never run out of captivating content.

Experience the best in class reading and listening:

• Enjoy your books on Android, iOS, or via your web browser, even without an internet connection, ensuring you can indulge in your stories anytime, anywhere.
• Seamlessly pick up where you left off across any device, ensuring a smooth transition in your reading or listening journey.
• Customize your reading experience with options to adjust text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors to suit your preferences.
• Track your reading progress with detailed insights into the percentage completed and pages remaining, helping you stay on top of your reading goals.
• Organize your library into curated shelves using the new shelves tab, accessible across Android, iOS, and the web, making it easy to find your next read by theme or genre.
• Save your books to an SD card, ensuring you never run out of space for your growing collection.
• Utilize reading tools in children's books to enhance the learning experience with kid-friendly word definitions, the ability to listen to specific words, or hear the entire book read aloud.
• Enhance your comic reading experience with Bubble Zoom, making it easier to enjoy your favorite comics and manga on a mobile device.
• Take notes that sync with Google Drive and share them with a group for collaborative learning and discussion.
• Access a range of in-app features like looking up definitions, getting translations, saving highlights, and bookmarking favorite pages as you read.
• Activate Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness for a comfortable reading experience in any lighting condition.

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

Last updated on Oct 14, 2024

Arriving in 2023.6.12

• A new reading practice feature is now available in select books within Tools for beginning readers. This feature requires the microphone to be turned on to hear you, but rest assured, it won't keep any of your recordings.

Recently added

• Multiple library improvements, including multiselect functionality, enhanced filtering options, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index for quick navigation to specific titles or authors.
• Improved navigation to reach series pages, making it easier to follow your favorite series.
• A new wishlist tab, allowing you to keep track of books you're interested in purchasing in the future.

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