Google Play Books & Audiobooks

In-app purchases
4.5
2.75M reviews
1B+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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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
16 Dec 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

4.6
2.47M reviews
A Google user
8 January 2020
It is handy but less so since a couple months ago. It suddenly started to loose track of the page it was reading out loud when you returned to the app. So you would not know on which page you were left, which can be annoying. It did not do that a year ago. Also it would be handy to be able to sort your ebooks in different maps (e.g. based on school or genre). The read out loud function is really great!
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Jason
6 January 2025
Would've been good. This narrator is now AWFUL!!!!! 😐 It was read at a regular speed, in male voice, the entire story, until I just purchased the entire ebook; hit play, to continue listening, and now it sounds like a chipmunk... on speed. I cannot find an option Anywhere in the settings, to fix this, other than turning off *read aloud* altogether; this kinda defeats the point of purchasing... Please tell me how to fix this, ASAP! Thanks in advance! Ebook purchased -my vampire system
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Justin Reyes
21 December 2024
No options to adjust powerful 'Read Aloud' feature inside the app, relies on system OS which makes sense but can be confusing at times, they should make a shortcut to simplify the process in the app, especially annoying when you're looking to try out multiple voices at a time. Otherwise it's a great e-book reading app, I would say even superior to any I've used before including Apple Books and Kindle Reader, once it's configured right at least. Excellent app, 3/5 recommend. 2 stars 4 audio issue
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Google LLC
22 December 2024
Hi Justin. Our product team greatly appreciates feedback. You can submit it via: The Play Books app > Profile Icon > Help & Feedback. Appreciate it.

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