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Google Play Books offers a best-in-class reading and listening experience. Whether you're using Android, iOS, or your web browser, you can enjoy your books offline. Seamlessly pick up where you left off on any device, and customize your reading experience by adjusting text size, font type, margins, text alignment, brightness, and background colors. Keep track of your reading progress with percentage read and pages remaining. Organize your library into shelves using the new shelves tab, curating by theme or genre, and access your shelves across Android, iOS, and the web. Save your books to an SD card to ensure you never run out of space.
For children's books, use reading tools to access kid-friendly word definitions, listen to specific words, or have the entire book read aloud. Enjoy Bubble Zoom for an enhanced comic reading experience on your mobile device. Take notes that sync with Google Drive, and share them easily for collaboration. While reading, look up definitions, get translations, save highlights, and bookmark your favorite pages. Enhance your reading comfort with Night Light, which automatically adjusts the background color and brightness or uses the OS brightness 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