Google Play Books & Audiobooks

All the books you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere you are.

Google Play Books is your ultimate destination for enjoying ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga in one convenient app.

Dive into a vast selection of millions of best-selling ebooks, comics, manga, textbooks, and audiobooks. Download your chosen book to read or listen to it on the go. Once you're done, easily discover your next favorite from a selection of personalized recommendations tailored just for you. Purchase audiobooks and ebooks as you go, with the flexibility of no subscription required.

Explore a wide range of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics:

• Buy ebooks and audiobooks on-demand without any subscription.
• Preview samples before making a purchase.
• Take advantage of special discounts on select bundles.
• Stay updated with emails or notifications about new releases from your favorite authors and when wishlisted books go on sale.
• Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, which you can later exchange for Google Play credit.
• Get notifications or emails for price drops on your samples and new releases from your favorite authors and series.
• Discover new releases, bestsellers, and personalized recommendations across various genres including romance, science fiction, mystery & thrillers, self-help, religion, nonfiction, and more.

Experience the best in class reading and listening:

• Enjoy reading or listening on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even offline.
• Seamlessly pick up where you left off on any device.
• Customize your reading experience with adjustable text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
• Track your reading progress, seeing the percentage completed 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 manage your device storage effectively.
• Enhance children's reading with tools that provide kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or have the book read aloud.
• Use Bubble Zoom for an enhanced comic reading experience on mobile devices, bringing your favorite comics and manga to life.
• Take notes that sync with Google Drive and share them for easy collaboration.
• Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark favorite pages while reading.
• Use Night Light to automatically adjust background color and brightness or set the app to follow the OS brightness settings.

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

Last updated on Oct 14, 2024

Arriving in 2023.6.12

• The 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 it 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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