Google Play Books & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
4.7
2.59M reviews
1B+
Downloads
Content rating
Teen
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About this app

Google Play Books is the one app that you need to buy to enjoy eBooks, audiobooks, comics and manga.

Choose from millions of best-selling eBooks, comics, manga, textbooks and audiobooks. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’ve finished, find your next favourite from recommendations personalised just for you. Buy audiobooks and eBooks as you go – with no subscription required.


Choose from millions of popular eBooks, audiobooks and comics
* Buy eBooks and audiobooks as you go – no subscription required.
* Preview samples before you buy.
* Get extra discounts on select bundles.
* Receive emails or notifications about new releases from your favourite authors and when your wishlisted books go on sale.
* Earn Google Play Points with every purchase, then exchange them for Google Play credit.
* Receive notifications or emails for price drops in your samples and new releases from your favourite authors and series.
* Discover new releases, best sellers and personalised recommendations across genres like romance, science fiction, mystery and thrillers, self-help, religion, non-fiction and more.

Best-in-class reading and listening experience.
* Read or listen on Android, iOS or your web browser, even when you’re offline.
* Pick up where you left off on any device.
* Customise your reading experience. Adjust the text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness and background colours.
* Track your reading progress. See what percentage you’ve read and how many pages you have left.
* Organise your library into shelves. Use the new shelves tab to curate your library by theme or genre. View your shelves across Android, iOS and the web.
* Save to SD card. Choose to save your books to the device or an SD card so that you never run out of space.
* Use reading tools in children's books to get child-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words or hear the book read aloud.
* Use Bubble Zoom for easier comic reading on a mobile device. Tap the page and watch your favourite comic or manga come to life.
* Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.
* Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights and bookmark your favourite pages while you read.
* Turn on Night Light to automatically adjust the background colour and brightness or set the app to use the OS brightness.
Updated on
1 July 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
No data shared with third parties
Learn more about how developers declare sharing
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Financial info and 6 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted
Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

4.7
2.33M reviews
John Li
2 July 2024
Hello! I was typing suggestions in the app pop up, then my alarm app popped up and I lost everything I typed. Frustrating! That's why I'm putting it here. In short, please make the book reading app more like kindle lol.... Sync pages, go to page, zoom out of where I am in the book, a quick info tab with word count, look up definitions when I highlight a word, not another button. Be nice to have a tab for notes and highlights where table of contents and bookmarks are to see them in full screen.
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Naeem chuhan
2 July 2024
Google Play Books has mixed reviews on the Play Store. Users appreciate its vast library of ebooks and audiobooks, the ability to download content for offline reading, and syncing capabilities across devices. However, some users find the browsing experience lacking and the text-to-speech feature underwhelming. Here's a summary of what users say about Google Play Books: Pros: * Large selection of ebooks and audiobooks * Offline reading.
8 people found this review helpful
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Smiley Reviews
21 June 2024
I often listen to audiobooks in the car when I'm going to work or on the way home. If I stop for whatever reason and get back into the car, 9 times out of 10 the app won't start playing my book again, a problem YouTube Music doesn't seem to have. The app often crashes or just pauses for no reason. There's no watch support to speak of, even for Google's own watch. The whole experience is just poor and if Google wants me to keep overspending on these audiobooks, the experience has to be better.
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Google LLC
22 June 2024
Hi there. Sorry to hear you're having issues with your app. These steps are for the Play Store but should also help with your Play Books app: https://goo.gle/2tPy0rx. If not, please contact us directly: https://goo.gle/2QyJZSb. Hope this helps.

What's new

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 that 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