Discover the joy of reading and listening with Google Play Books, your ultimate destination for ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga. With a vast selection of millions of bestsellers, textbooks, and more, you can dive into your next great read or listen wherever you are. No subscriptions are needed—just buy as you go and enjoy personalized recommendations tailored to your taste.

With Google Play Books, you can:

• Buy ebooks, audiobooks, and comics without any subscription.
• Preview samples before making a purchase.
• Benefit from 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 every purchase, which can be exchanged for Google Play credit.
• Get alerts for price drops on your samples and new releases from authors and series you love.
• Explore new releases, bestsellers, 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:

• Enjoy your content on Android, iOS, or your web browser, even offline.
• Seamlessly continue reading or listening from where you left off on any device.
• Customize your reading experience with adjustable text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors.
• Track your reading progress, knowing exactly what percentage you’ve read and how many pages remain.
• Organize your library into themed or genre-specific shelves, accessible across Android, iOS, and the web.
• Save 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, specific word listening, 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 purposes.
• Look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages as you read.
• Activate Night Light for an automatic adjustment of background color and brightness, or sync with your device's OS settings.

What's New in the Latest Version 2024.10.4.0 (240976)

Last updated on Oct 14, 2024

Arriving in 2023.6.12:

• A new reading practice feature in select books under Tools for beginning readers. The microphone must be enabled to assist you, but it won't retain any recordings.

Recently added:

• Multiple library enhancements, including multiselect, improved filtering, an unshelved shelf, and an alphabetical index for quick access to titles or authors.
• Improved navigation to reach series pages more efficiently.
• A new wishlist tab for easy tracking of desired books.