Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Discover a world of literature at your fingertips with Google Play Books, the ultimate app for indulging in your favorite reads. Whether you're into ebooks, audiobooks, comics, or manga, Google Play Books offers a vast selection of millions of best-selling titles, textbooks, and more. Download your chosen book and enjoy it anytime, anywhere—whether you're reading or listening. Once you've finished, let our personalized recommendations guide you to your next literary adventure. With no subscription required, you can purchase books as you go, making it easier than ever to build your digital library.

Dive into a diverse catalog featuring millions of popular ebooks, audiobooks, and comics:

• Buy ebooks and audiobooks at your convenience—no subscription required.
• Preview samples before making a purchase to ensure it's the right fit for you.
• Take advantage of extra discounts on select bundles.
• 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 each purchase, which you can then convert into Google Play credit.
• Receive alerts for price drops on your samples and new releases from beloved 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.

Experience the best in class reading and listening features:

• Enjoy your books on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even without an internet connection.
• Seamlessly pick up where you left off across any device.
• Customize your reading experience with adjustable text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
• Track your reading progress with indicators showing the percentage read and pages remaining.
• Organize your library into themed or genre-based shelves using the new shelves tab, accessible on Android, iOS, and the web.
• Save your 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, word-specific audio, or full book narration.
• Enhance your comic and manga reading with Bubble Zoom on mobile devices.
• Take notes that sync with Google Drive and share them for collaborative learning.
• Access definitions, translations, save highlights, and bookmark favorite pages as you read.
• Activate Night Light to automatically adjust the background color and brightness or sync with your device's settings.

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.