Google Play Books & Audiobooks

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About this app

Dive into a world of stories with Google Play Books! Explore millions of ebooks, audiobooks, comics, and manga — all in one app.

Key Features:

• Your library, anywhere: Enjoy books on your phone, tablet, computer, or even in your car with Android Auto. Plus, you can download books to read offline.

• Earn Google Play Points: Get rewarded with Play Points when you purchase books. Note: Play Points availability, award levels, and multiplier rates differ by country. Play Points isn’t available in all countries.

• Organize with shelves: Personalize your digital library with custom shelves to categorize your books by genre, author, or any theme you’d like.

• Smart notes: Jot down notes that sync with your Google Drive and can be shared for easy collaboration.

• No subscription needed: Buy only the books you want, when you want them.

• Kid–friendly reading tools: Let kids explore word definitions and listen to books aloud. Note: Reading practice tools are available in English only.

• Immersive comics: Experience Bubble Zoom for a specialized comic and manga reading experience.

• Preview before you buy: Check out samples to make sure it’s the perfect book for you.

• Hands–free reading: Control your audiobook with your voice using Google Assistant.

• Read your way: Customize your reading experience by adjusting the font, text size, brightness, and more.

• Book insights: Get more out of your book with recaps and insights – right from your page. Note: Book insights is available in select English language titles.

Millions of stories await on Google Play Books! Download now and start reading.
All the books you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere you are.
Updated on
Nov 11, 2026
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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 5 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
  • You can request that data be deleted
  • Independent security review

Ratings and reviews

2.91M reviews
A Google user
November 13, 2018
It works well for the most basic of use cases: reading. But it lacks a lot of features that other reader apps have. For instance, if you want to highlight text on multiple pages... nope! can't do that! Compare this to what Kindle app offers, or even some of the smaller apps offers, it's very bare-bones. At least the book prices are somewhat competitive!! And syncing books and progress across multiple devices works well.
1,244 people found this review helpful
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A Google user
October 24, 2019
Everything you need plus all the essentials all in one app! That's great! If you are not a regular reader of books, get into it with use of this app. Nothing to hold a reader back, from beginning to end! You can go anywhere in the world in unlimited settings! That's how my mother described reading any book to me, when I was in my early years. She could complete any huge book in a day, lots in one afternoon! And that's a small way a person could put themselves into a book & be there!
263 people found this review helpful
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Nae Allie
July 21, 2022
Originally 5 stars for the free read along. But you can not set a timer, so sometimes I will fall asleep and wake up to the book finished. This app also has a hard time catching up to the read along. Sometimes, the book will say I am on page 40, but the read aloud is reading page 120..it doesn't always synch. (This could also be my older phone. I still love this app, though, and I have found myself using this over my kindle more and more
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What’s new

New in version 2025.1.10

• Improved ease-of-use in ebook text selection menu

Check out these features

• Upload EPUB and PDF files and read them on all of your devices
• Download purchased ebooks and audiobooks (DRM-free if allowed by the publisher) to read on other devices such as Nook, Sony Reader, Kobo