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Choose from millions of books on Google Play including new releases, New York Times® bestsellers, textbooks and free classics. Easily adjust font size and customize even more of your reading experience. Read online or offline and pick up where you left off on your phone, tablet, or computer. Get started reading today!
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* Read offline
* Bookmark pages, highlight text, and add notes
* Elegant 3D page turns
* Bookmarks, notes, and reading positions are synced across your phones, tablets and computers
* Search within books, use dictionary, find geographical information, discover web results, and wikipedia right on the page
* Select fonts, font size, and layout for flowing text books
* Choose day, night, and sepia reading modes
* Listen to books with text-to-speech when publisher allows
* Upload PDF or EPUB files to your library

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Reviews (26)

Cri. D. Apr 3, 2022     

I used it for more than fourteen years and it worked great. My high-speed internet works perfectly, was well. Lately, reading books allowed started taking frequent breaks, mainly if 'more natural voice' is toggled. They are quite annoying as I'm not used to them. I should get what I bought. Put a refresh button or fix it one way or another, I'm sick of downloading several times each book I'm reading...

Thi. T. Apr 2, 2022     

This app is useful, but it could easily be a lot better. What I love is that it saves my notes and highlights to Drive and syncs them across devices. Some things I hate about this app: (1) You can't adjust play speed in the app. (2) No pause, play, or skip buttons on the main screen. You have to use the pull-down menu. (3) You can't highlight something that starts and ends on separate pages. You have to make two separate highlights. (4) It won't read PDF books aloud.

Mar. R. May 7, 2022     

After trying out a few other apps, I ended up giving Google Books a chance. After all, how good could a free app really be?! I was very surprised how much better this app was for epub files than some of the for-purchase/subscription apps. The two pages view is flawless. I was specifically looking for that feature for children's picture books. Other apps struggled with that feature. I am very happy now.

Roy. Y. May 1, 2022     

Decent app but very basic. Frankly I expected more from Google. I like that highlights and notes are stored in Google drive so they don't need to be exported but I've found the highlighting feature to be very buggy. Half the time when I'm highlighting a sentence the app will continue the highlight onto the first word of the next sentence. Once a highlight is placed it can't be adjusted without deleting it, including any notes attached to it. Can't extend a highlight across multiple pages.

L. D. May 20, 2022     

Really, really, REALLY feature-poor. Google just keeps putting out official apps that are worse than the worst free alternative. Can't change font, colors, can't change from pages to continuous scrolling. It's almost impressive that they've managed to make ebooks just as inconvenient and uncustomizable as physical print.

Ric. W. Apr 26, 2022     

Translation is broken. This would be a great app to read foreign language books in, but each time you select a word it seems to make a random guess as to what language you are reading and gets it wrong at least 50% of the time, resulting in much scrolling to reselect the correct language. Not sure if this is a bug or a 'feature' to show off google's ability to detect languages, but it is incredibly annoying, books do not change language every paragraph, so pls let me select one fixed langauge

Rob. P. May 18, 2022     

One of the best apps I have. I've downloaded dozens of books over the years. An amazing access to copies of rare books from the 1800s and earlier and most are FREE. Recent changes to allow downloading to a SD card has saved me several gigabytes on my hard drive. I collect old books and this app allows me to review many of them before I decide to purchase.

ste. N. May 15, 2022     

Been using it for years n never had any issues with it working. Love the new search system it has. Nice to be able to search for the free books by genre now. My only complaint is I just don't like the notification stuff that pops up now when I'm on my home page instead of it being my usual library of recently read books

Ari. M. May 19, 2022     

If there is 0 star rating, I would like to give that. Amazon Kindle is much more better than this app , Now I'm thinking why I uselessly spent so much money to purchase books from here. 1. Whenever I'm highliting the texts then trying to translate the same highlited part, it's translation is showing but after transliteration the highlighted texts suddenly disappearing. 2. While using from another device, if I'm editing something, it's taking a long time to upload in the other devices.

gia. z. Apr 11, 2022     

Very happy that there's no ads but if there are ads I didn't even notice it. I love it! The only thing that I hate is the search function. The search is so saturated that I had to check the publisher on the official site website to find the other books that they have. I suggest that you add more search functions, and also like in the play store to be able to see the publisher's books that is available in the playstore.

And. Y. Apr 27, 2022     

Audiobooks pause and cut in and cut out. Even downloaded audiobooks pause and cut in and cut out. Have to close up and we start it to get start working again. Works maybe 5-10 minutes before it starts to cut in and cut out again. My phone is up to date the app is up today I don't know what is causing it but it is very frustrating.

Jef. S. May 6, 2022     

This used to be a fantastic app due to it's read aloud functionality on any epub book, but recent updates have made this feature use a default voice that can't be sped up despite my read aloud and voice assistant settings being set for faster speech. If I can't trust updates from Google's own apps, what updates can I trust? Otherwise the app is not nearly as easy to use as it could be and books rarely go on sale to warrant buying through it specifically.

Cou. C. May 5, 2022     

Help section tells me I can do things like download books, but doesnt tell me how. I want to read the book I purchased, but the app is not working and keeps closing. I've already had issues with this app due to not being able to scroll while reading (makes reading harder for some of us with learning disabilities), illegible font, having to change layouts (which moved the text and made the book harder to read). I paid for my books, I want to read them but can't cos your app won't work correctly.

Ros. M. May 24, 2022     

the app was great, up until I installed the latest update and it didn't allow me to either download the offline dictionary or upload new books to the app; keeps telling me upload failed, check your internet connection, even tho I'm pretty sure my connection to the internet has no issues. what do I do to fix this? thanks

Mat. C. May 8, 2022     

Simple, clean aesthetic. Accepts e-pub and pdf, stores all your library in a digital folder which you can view and curate via the web. I wish the book shelves were better, I wish you could edit author details and series so as to be able to easily filter and search. Excellent dark mode and adaptive brightness with a blue light filter for night.

xy. m. Apr 27, 2022     

I'm having issues inregards with the book covers. Some of the covers becomes small and when I tried to reload the app, it changes back to normal. But after opening the app and/or closing my books, the book covers were small again. It's fixed now thanks!

spr. May 18, 2022     

This is horrible! I spent 15 bucks on an audiobook and it continually stops playing. Just abruptly stops. Unlock the screen and it plays again. Put phone in pocket, book plays for a minute or so, then stops, open phone it plays automatically, lock screen, put in pocket, a moment later it stops again and again and again and again. No answers from support .

Pla. May 13, 2022     

This app lacks the basic ability to access existing ebooks. It lets you define a shelf, but has no way to associate that shelf with a device folder or discover existing ebooks. If you're looking for a good reader for owned ebooks, choose something else (e.g. Readera is great) until Google addresses this major UX fail. 12/17/21: no change with update. Re reply: Basic UX fail, not a feature req. and *YOU* should forward this feedback to the team. 5/13/22 - +5 months and no fix for this issue.

Bob. P. May 14, 2022     

Until recently the app would allow a single page in landscape mode but it stopped. Trying to read 2 pages on a small screen is uncomfortable. Is there any chance a toggle can be added to switch between single and double page views.

Ted. K. May 12, 2022     

You got a 50/50 shot of the search icon showing up when you open a book. Synching is only reliable if you close the book back to the menu every time. Otherwise you'll be spending a lot of time looking for whwre you left off.

Jai. M. May 10, 2022     

I like using this app but the read aloud feature refuses to work. What do i mean by this? Well it only uses a default female voice that sounds like dogshit and despite other google apps using the voice i have set. google books doesn't and google support refuses to acknowledge that its a problem on their side and blames it on my phone. The thing is it doesn't change voices on any phones me or family own.

Sar. B. H. May 13, 2022     

Very difficult to navigate. For example, to zoom in on a page or move around on a page. The annotation is terrible. Not easy to use, highlights darker sometimes and is difficult to figure out how to change.

ROD. A. D. May 21, 2022     

This app is very useful for me as an e-reader. But, i suggest that you can add more colors (pastel colors) on the highlights so we can have more choices and we can enjoy annotating ebooks even more.

Ang. H. May 8, 2022     

Buying and listening to audiobooks with this app is fantastic, however the automated voice for the read aloud option for eBook is awful! I would pay for a better voice but I cannot find a way to instill it to the app. The tinny horrible ladies voice gives me a headache and makes me feel seasick. Google please update a new voice soon.

Bre. C. Apr 24, 2022     

A large amount of playback issues. Restarting my phone usually fixes it, but the audio with either remain the same despite volume changes, or it'll cut in and out constantly. Other audio apps do not have this same issue on my device. Poor performance considering this is a Google made app.

Cry. P. Apr 11, 2022     

It's good app just needs some tweaks, one make it so that if you upload books it tells you the ones you already uploaded and let's you choose whether or not to download them again. If the book doesn't upload properly save the notification, so I can go back and try to upload the book another way. Also I should be able to change the name of the book if I am the one uploading it.