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New in version 2025.1.10
• Improved ease-of-use in ebook text selection menu
Check out these features
• Upload EPUB and PDF files and read them on all of your devices
• Download purchased ebooks and audiobooks (DRM-free if allowed by the publisher) to read on other devices such as Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo
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.
• Organize with shelves: Personalize your digital library with custom shelves to categorize your books by genre, author, or any theme 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 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 specialized comic and manga reading experience.
• Preview before you buy: Check out samples to make sure it’s the perfect book for you.
• Hands–free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Google Assistant.
• Read your way: Customize 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.
I was getting back into an old series favorite so I wanted to read some old ebooks I had purchased as a refresher, but they're suddenly "not available in my region," and there doesn't seem to be a way to switch to the version that IS available in my region without paying for those books a second time. Other than that, I have no issues, but I lost a solid portion of older books that I purchased.
I have not only viewed, for "free," many "samples" of many books on Play Books, but I have also PURCHASED many of those exact same books. That said, why for "some" of those same Books that I had paid for, some I can copy and paste from with no restrictions, others, strangely enough, I can not, even though, in the end, I understand "copyrights" and so on and so on. My opinion: distracting, extra-burdensome, time-wasting--and, frankly, not a good way to keep one shopping at the same (ANY) store.
the app is great for reading, but the organizational ability leaves a lot to be desired. you can make shelves but can't sort them into a custom order, which sucks because sometimes the titles have typos, so the predefined sorters just put it out of order anyway as a result. then there's the fact that the series tab is missing a lot of information. I own an entire book series, yet that tab stays completely empty, only showing it in my library.
Even works well on Android TV if you can sideload it. With the redesign a few months ago, you can now browse, purchase, and read books using just your TV remote, no mouse needed anymore. All my books on the biggest screen I own. Please enable this app for TVs in the Play store, so I don't have to sideload it anymore.
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