Google Play Books & Audiobooks App Reviews

VERSION
6.5.2
SCORE
4.4
TOTAL RATINGS
9,414
PRICE
Free

Google Play Books & Audiobooks App Description & Overview

What is google play books & audiobooks app? All the books you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere you are.

Meet Google Play Books for iOS: the one app to enjoy ebooks and audiobooks from Google Play.

Dive into a great book today with millions of titles from Google Play on your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad. Download your book to read or listen on the go. When you’re finished, find your next favorite from recommendations personalized just for you.

LISTEN TO A GREAT AUDIOBOOK ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
●       No monthly subscription required
●       Navigate chapters with real chapter titles - not track lists
●       Pick up where you left off on all your devices, including in the car with CarPlay
●       Siri Shortcuts: Just say, Hey Siri, play my audiobook

MILLIONS OF EBOOKS AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
●       Preview samples from our catalog of millions of books
●       Read your books, comics, and textbooks even when you’re offline
●       Tap the page and watch your favorite comic book or manga come to life with Bubble Zoom
●       Take notes that sync with your Google Drive and share them with a group for easy collaboration.

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App Name Google Play Books & Audiobooks
Category Books
Published
Updated 19 January 2024, Friday
File Size 78.24 MB

Google Play Books & Audiobooks Comments & Reviews 2024

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Decent ebook reader. Decent ebook reader. Easy to sync ebooks through your Google account, or by purchasing the ebooks. Feature Request 1: Vertical scrolling. Flipping through pages is fine and all, but for faster readers, vertical scrolling makes the reading experience much more pleasant. Feature Request 2: List by Author should only show authors. For those with a lot of ebooks, the most logical sort method is by authors. However, the ebooks, while sorted by authors, still lists every ebook. When you sort by authors, it should only list the name of the author and not the individual books. Click the author’s name to expand and view the books under the author. This would make searching for a particular book faster.

Broken - not a quality app. App will not download or display books comprised of images (comic books). The app will show the download is complete, but all pages will be “image not downloaded.” Until recently, deleting a bad download and trying again would sometimes fix this issue - but not anymore. Application has options “delete download” and “delete from library” right next to each other in the menu. If you accidentally delete from library, you lose the book - permanently. Google can’t restore the original purchase, they can only give you a refund - you have to contact support directly for this. Until the refund is processed, you cannot purchase the accidentally deleted book again, either. The app used to work for comics, but no longer. You are probably better off trying to purchase and read comics via the comic publishers own apps. Hopefully Google fixes this issue with either the content or the app soon.

Downloaded books get deleted after switching to another account.. Downloaded books get deleted after switching to another account. I have been using play books for years and personally it’s my favorite book reading aap . On previous versions of this aap the user could download books on different accounts and the books won’t get deleted after switching the accounts but this update deletes books after switching account . I will give 5 stars once this issue is fixed.

Really easy to delete books. I read a book using this app and that experience was fine. Nothing to write home about but it got the job done. What really is annoying is how quickly I ACCIDENTALLY (and yet *permanently*) deleted the book I had JUST FINISHED. Gone forever and I’m going to have to rebuy it. How did I manage to do this, you might ask? I was poking around the app for features and saw that you can create “Shelves” – basically a way to categorize your collection. The … menu next to a book goes (in this order!): - Remove Download - Delete from your library - Add to shelves Yes, the options are next to each other. So you can imagine how easy it is to accidentally click on the delete option. And if you are already in a cadence of adding books to your shelves, how easily it is to tap delete, thinking you are confirming which shelf you’re adding the book to. I looked up how I could get the book back and it turns out I’m going to have to REBUY IT. I had just finished it and annotated it and everything. I have two unread purchases that I will read first, but I’m not going to use this app and really won’t recommend it to anyone either.

Speak screen app unresponsive. When I leverage the accessibility feature in iOS of “speak screen” the app reads the current page but then becomes unresponsive at the end of the page. The only way to revive the App is by killing it first and then restarting it. This needs to work like other e-book applications like Kindle and iBooks work to speak screen should be able to turn pages and continue reading. Play books used to be my favorite app but no more.

App icon unrelated to reading. Great app, my main one for reading ebooks. But guys, I’ve been using this app for years, and I still forget this is the app I use because the app icon doesn’t look like a book, nor anything related to reading. It’s just a triangle, and if you get out a microscope you can see a tiny bookmark on it. Since bookmarks are used by web browsers too tho it’s hardly a direct association to reading. I don’t use google play much so I don’t recognize the triangle from google play. Google has rebranded all of their main app logos like gmail like 6 times this year, could y’all do that for google books? Seriously

Highlights messed up. The book reader does fine, however the display often messes up. I do a lot of highlighting, in various colors. When reading a chapter I previously used some highlighting on, sometimes I’ll turn the page and the entire page is highlighted one color, turn the page the entire page is highlighted another color, turn the page and things are back to normal. If I click anywhere on the page that’s completely highlighted, and hit delete the entire page’s highlighting disappears, but I don’t know if what I wanted to be highlighted also disappears. I hope they fix this bug.

DONT PICK this if Other Option Exists. Been using this to read a bestseller technical book for the past 3 months. I've observed the following issues so far: 1. Highlight colors mismatch: I use both web browser version and iOS to read for convenience. When I highlight using blue or red in web browser, the highlights are displayed as green or yellow in iOS app. This is really annoying because I highlight a different category of things in green/yellow. This mixes them up. This is a really small but obvious and disturbing friction for users. 2. Images disappear: I paid $33 for the ebook, the same price as its paper copy. This I'm expecting the same content. However, certain images are not available in iOS app. 3. Highlight "wiggles": countless times when I highlighted, either a word or a sentence, the highlight would wiggle. For example, if a word appears in both the subtitle and the paragraph, when I highlight the one in the paragraph, the highlight would show up on the subtitle. When I highlight a sentence, the highlight will be displayed off by several words or even characters. 4. Highlight disappears: when the highlights don't wiggle, they would sometimes disappear. They'll still show up in the list of notes, but they stay invisible on the page. They GHOST you. 5. My thumbs are too tired to type more but I'm sure I observed more... I rarely rate apps, let alone writing a review this long, but 4.6/5 is beyond inconceivable.

Great app but I want more. The UI is perfect and simple. I read and listened to dozens of books and audiobooks. However, I just want one feature added so I can read anywhere. One place I find it hard to read is on buses or cars when I’m a passenger. My iPad or phones shakes way to much when I’m reading. Can developers add a feature to like book stabilize when I’m reading a book? So if I shake my phone the book I’m reading is not interrupted from vibrations. It’s kind of like the video stabilization on a GoPro. Be super awesome. Thanks for a great app so far.

Thank God for Google. I'm so thankful that Google decided to digitize and preserve the writings that may have been lost in this digital era. Their work has been a treasure trove for people like me who feel that the only true way to have a complete picture of our past is to continue to read the writings of those who have preceded us. And if we don't know our history we are sure to repeat the worst parts of it. Thanks, Google. Now I can take thousands of interesting and thoughtful people with me in my relatively tiny purse.

No Images. All my purchased books have no images. Anytime there is supposed to be an image, it just says “image not available”, including on all the covers and photo inserts. When I download a sample, it does display the image! Does not make sense to me, and this just started only two days ago. I will wait to purchase any more books on my list for google play books until this is fixed. Other than this, it is (was) the highest quality of all the ebook apps. UPDATE: I thought it was fixed as I was getting images there for awhile, tried downloading some more books and “image not available” is occurring again! Please fix so I can always see the images when I open the book, I wii wait until this is finally fixed before making amy more purchases. Other than this glitch, all is good.

Good enough I guess. (TLDR: no page forward from left side of screen) Pros compared to native iBooks: - text size, font, spacing far more customizable - text fills to the edge of the screen (finally!) - navigation to the "bookstore" is hidden in the left toolbar (no more tapping 4 different bottom-row icons by accident when I just want to read books from my library) - interface just "feels" more updated/streamlined Cons: - NO OPTION TO PAGE FORWARD WHEN TAPPING THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. This is my biggest issue with the app. If you don't mind, then you'll probably really like the app. It might make it almost unusable for me - no ability to sort books into folders (while convenient in iBooks, the fact that they force an "all books" main screen instead of just uncategorized books makes it worthless to me, so in that regards it's not a big issue that play books doesn't have it) I only use it to read uploaded epubs so I don't know how everything looks for purchased books. However, I would like the opportunity to customize the blank cover that shows up with uploaded books, with my own image or text. That alone would entice me to use this app even without the ability to page forward from the left of the screen.

Simple Review. I would never lie and say I am an avid reader, but there are some things that catch my interest. This app's library has not let me down yet! I am extremely impressed by what they consider to be a "sample". There idea of a sample is pretty lengthy and almost to the point that you forgot that you will need to actually purchase the particular book you are reading to complete it. The options to bookmark, easily navigate through the book & highlight makes this a great electronic option for those who prefer or choose to go this route.

Useful and useless. The app is very nice for reading books from Google's scanned library of very old books. I use Google books for this sort of thing frequently and thus do not need to travel all over the world for access to library's that contain them. So positive points there. However, why no search feature for a given book? I have to use my BROWSER to log into Google Books to search for key words and phases as opposed to using this app. Apple Books, I might add, has this feature and it is immeasurably useful.

Caveat emptor. Select titles stop opening or cut off text. Google tech support personnel untrained to resolve problems with google play books app on iPhones. Malfunctioning titles deleted from google play books library on iPhones are not replaceable. Requests emailed to google customer service to receive a functioning copy of a malfunctioning title are ignored. Google customer support drops calls. Google automated refund system rejects valid refund requests and requires manual override by customer support personnel. (To obtain my refund for a malfunctioning title, I had to call customer support three [3] times. Customer support had to call me back three [3] times.) Tone of service of google customer support personnel is very good; but google customer support personnel lack the training and tools to resolve problems after the sale. Buyer beware.

This App is a Sick Joke. I don’t know what made my experience with this app so much different than everyone else’s, but I’m over it. I rented a textbook for school on this app, and I was excited that, if this worked out, I could start doing this for all my texts! No. I will never do this again. I’ll never put anyone I know through using this app. The table of contents and page numbers are totally messed up, and I often find myself flipping through the same pages over and over? In addition, I can’t get past page 32 using this app on my iPad. I wish I could get back the money I paid to rent this book on here, as well as the hours of my life I’ve spent sorting through this garbage.

Saisfied customer. Update: Still very happy with this App, glad that it has been kept simple and easy to use. Maybe a filing system would be useful for some. All told very good and recommended. Previous comment Apart from lacking a good filing system I am very satisfied with this App. Does most things Kindle, Kobo & iBooks do, you just need to look for them, every reading App is different. Pricing of books is very competitive and should also be considered, PlayBooks is way out in front in this respect.

Can’t purchase books in an app for books. I’ve had a love-hate relationship with Google Books over the years. I used it some years ago for school, but quickly switched to Books when I got my first iPad. A few months ago I went back to this app to purchase a book in another language. I love that there’s a specific button for translation, but that’s about it. Sometimes notes show up, sometimes they don’t. Sometimes they move. And, being in the margin, they’re difficult to retrieve without turning the page, if it opens at all. Also. I don’t know what happened between when I purchased the book (summer 2020) and now (winter 2020), but now purchasing books in the app is disabled. The prices aren’t even listed. I’ve noticed that the Google/Android model involves needing different apps for functions that could be done by one app, but not being able to purchase books in an app designed for reading books seems overwhelmingly defeatist.

SOME concerns and fixes. I was told you could sample books? No button or anything to give me a sample. You don’t know anything about the book. Also you have to go out of the app then to chrome or safari if your on a mobile device (like me) go to play website find the book then buy it! It’s absurd, overall once I got a book and figured it out the reading experience was ok, it kicked me out a few times. I still don’t know if it was connection or the app. Please fix these minor problems to make a better experience for future readers

Download Issues unable to Contact Support easily. The app has been great for me up until the most recent update. For some reason I am only able to read the sample and it will no longer allow me to purchase the entire e-book. Instead I am getting an error stating “books already purchased are available to read in this app.” I have not purchased the e-book at this point, what is the meaning of this? I have tried reinstalling and using the troubleshooting info, however, nothing has worked and it is extremely difficult finding an alternate way to get support.

So Unhappy I’m Crying. Sat there for hours waiting for a book to release. Refreshed for hours and hours and hours. The book didn’t charge to my account even though I preordered it way back on announcement day. Your app doesn’t show the cost of a book or the purchase button on the books store page, for some reason you can only see it on a computer. For years I’ve been struggling with having to switch to a desktop to buy books. After hours and hours and hours trying to refresh to get to my book, I tried my computer and found out the books I preordered didn’t purchase and were sitting there waiting for me to buy again. I’ve been sitting here. Waiting. And your app didn’t even tell me that my order was cancelled AND I couldn’t see that the book was ready for me to buy because your app doesn’t tell you that. Im so unhappy that I’ve been sitting here crying in frustration and I can’t even bring myself to read this book I’ve been waiting on since 2011 now that it’s in my library. What a horrible experience. I don’t care why you don’t have the purchase button in the app and I don’t care why you didn't send me a notification that my preorder was cancelled or didn’t go through, this app is completely ruined for me. Used to be a proud user, now I’m hateful and frustrated and it’s ruined my experience for this book in particular.

Google update ruined this for apple users.. I love this app, but after the last update a couple days so, I can't read any book. It try's to load and just spins and spins and spins. I have deleted play books and re downloaded twice. Still won't work. Help! UPDATE: Called support, they told me to do everything I already did. Even though there all numerous complaints on here since PlayBooks last update...they say it is an Apple problem. Looks like they don't care to resolve the problem with Apple users. Anyone have a suggestion of a replacement app for apple users?

Eh.... I’m giving this four stars because in some cases it seems to work well. My biggest complaint is getting samples of books. I like the ability to view a sample... but once a sample, always a sample... in the app anyway. I purchased the full book and can read the entire book on the browser but as soon as I go back to the app it’s a sample again. I’ve tried deleting the download and even removing the title and then going back to the full book on the web browser and clicking “view in app”. Even if I’m in chapter one on the browser when I click to view in app, it goes back to the introduction and says none of the chapters are able to be viewed. Like it’s still a sample. So I’m annoyed with that but otherwise the app seems okay.

Background downloads hopefully includes Resume downloads. I was just about to give it one star, but then saw the latest update includes background downloads. I have ‘lost’ several nearly complete audio book downloads because of the lack of the app being able to resume downloads. This is highly annoying when you are on a slow and limited data connection. Download resuming is a basic function and should have been in the first version. Hope that background downloads includes this function, but it didn’t get a mention and I haven’t been able to try it yet.

I guess it works because you can read books. Other than that, forget it. Forget sorting your books, looking up word definitions or doing searches for words outside of the app. The search function used to work until Google ‘fixed’ it in an update. Now the search function just loads your web browser to the Google home page. Thanks Google! The bookmarks function is clunky at best. Translation rarely works as expected. Pages often get cut off at random, or the app sticks on a page and has to be rebooted. Google really should take a page from the Kindle app, which has far and away superior functionality on all of these fronts. I only use this app to read the books my partner has downloaded to it, otherwise I avoid it because it’s seriously frustrating.

It’s good but I have some concerns.. I do most of my digital reading on this app on the iPad Pro. My one major concern is that why can’t I make purchases through this app? Every time I want to read a new book I have to leave this app, hop onto google, buy it there, and then go back to the google play book app. It would be nice if could just purchase from the app instead, and save me a trip! Also why can I only put a book mark on the right side only? I should be able to put a bookmark on the left side too. One time I put a bookmark and it appeared all they way in the right side, when in reality it should’ve been on the left side because that is where I actually stopped reading. Then, some time later, when I came back to pick up a where I left off in my book, I forgot that I wasn’t actually done with the left hand side, so I continued on reading only the right hand side. That whole page had a lot of detail, and I was lost in the book for a few seconds only to realize the error that this app has. I wasted like 10 minutes figuring out where I actually was.

The Bane of My Existence. Let me start by saying that this is easily the worst reading app I’ve ever used. I’m amazed at its inability to perform even basic functions. It doesn’t recognize my pressing and dragging to highlight, so anything I’m reading as research takes 2-3 times as long. It randomly freezes and crashes, and pages take long seconds to turn. I’ve rage quit countless times and feel like a total idiot for buying 3 Google Books having not tried the apps. This app has now become the bane of my existence. Reading has become a giant source of frustration. Please do not make this mistake and buy their books if you rely heavily on reading apps!!! I honestly never write reviews but this product is so bad I had to say something.

Horrible on highlighting. I use this app all the time and I have noticed that there’s many times the app decides it doesn’t want to keep certain highlights in my notes! Ot just simply deletes them as soon as I create them! This is getting annoying! Especially when I have created notes and they just disappear, i mine as well use another app just for note keeping! What happens when you put a lot of thought into your note and it just deletes itself? The devs need to fix this! Are there any other apps that read google books I can use!

Great stuff. There is no other app for reading old, obscure works (for free in most cases) but Google Play. With it, I've read Joseph Priestley's "Disquisitions relating to Matter and Spirit" and I'm partway through his "Corruptions of Christianity." Also, George Berkeley's "Alciphron." Now I've moved on to Sir Humphrey Davy's "Elements of Chemical Philosophy," books that no one in their right mind would spend time on, but still so much fun. This is only augmented by the ability to highlight in five colors and to make your own footnotes. You can define most words in the text or else search for them on the web. I highly recommend this for any fan of dead authors.

Poor highlighting. I read a fair amount of technical books and like to highlight passages, etc. This is the first Google Playbook I’ve purchased, and highlighting is a nightmare. The actual act of highlighting is not difficult. However, if you highlight a line on the left page, you can not highlight anything on the same line on the right hand page. Worse still, after highlighting, then returning to previous pages, the highlighting is all over the place. Words highlighted that were not originally, passages “double” highlighted - a REAL MESS. Also, there is no way to write notes in the margins. If you intend to read and highlight, don’t buy a Google Playbook!!!

Great Reader App. As a reader app it does the job solidly! I can easily read any book I have purchased through Google however the browsing abilities of the app are severely lacking. I don't want to peruse articles as much as I want to look for more books I might find an interest in. When opening the app there is a decent "recommended for you" list but with no way to change or extend the list, search a new list or simply refresh the list without going through a "build your interests" type form. Obviously, I can browse on a desktop or laptop but that isn't as convenient as being able to do it from the same device I just finished reading from. It could also benefit from manipulating the screen timer. It's quite frustrating to constantly have to unlock the phone because the screen times itself out on every page.

Effective reader app crippled by lack of sync across devices. Forgetting about the fact that you can’t make purchases in the app - because that’s Apple’s fault - the real issue is that this app does not sync progress correctly across devices. Worse! Whatever point you’ve read up to on one device “sticks” and all other devices will reset back to it if you try to read there. Meaning if I’ve read to page 100 on one device, read to page 150 on another, when I sign into a third device it moves me back to 100 without asking, then moves me back to 100 on all devices! I have to keep a separate notepad of what page I’m on in every device in order to read through something. You would really, really expect Google to figure this one out.

Google is usually great - but not here. This is one of those time you wish the justice department would enforce anti-trust laws. The first issue is, the book has no internal search feature. The second issue is that i kept getting an error that my book was open on another device - only i don’t have another device. It is conceivable that someone in the world hacked me and opened this very obscure book on Indian corporate governance - but unlikely. The worst part is the customer service. Or should i say the lack there of. And now the link doesn’t even work - at least they are honest. Let’s just hope their automated cars have better customer support.

Worst app ever. I have never ever ever once been able to read a book i’ve downloaded to Google Play. I downloaded a few free ones (just to make sure it works before I pay for any e-books). The app just spends and spends and spends and never loads. I go back to the app days later there is an image of the book I click on it and it spins and spins and spins and never opens. Each time there’s an app update I update the app in hopes then I can read in the book in Google play but no I click on a book and it spins and spins and spins and spins and never opens. You would think it being Google, you could trust it would be a top notch product, but this app has taken Google down a few notches in my estimation. 😡

Could be much better. I only use this for audiobooks so far (I’m on my third book), and it is competent on this function. Especially, I like how it will go back to the start of a sentence whenever you begin playback, which means you are never lost about what is being discussed. HOWEVER. The inability to buy books through the app is absolutely baffling. So much can be done through mobile these days; how can a company such as Google completely hollow out this app’s potential by making people go buy books on a desktop, just to listen on mobile. This seems like such a blatant omission that there must be some explanation for why it’s not included, but it definitely hurts the user experience. Do better Google

Books disappeared!? 😡. Got on here to read my book that I was in the middle of while I eat breakfast before I go to work, like I always do. All of my books are missing, including the one I was in the middle of and all of my purchased books. What is going on?? I need this fixed immediately!! Some of those books I paid for!! Update: several days later I finally got a response but the issue was fixed rather quickly. I do enjoy using this app and have for years. I will now upgrade from a 1 star to a 4 star

☹️ bad update. I love this app as depending on the system you use you can listen to your books which is a feature I love. I wish it read PDF books as well however, for some reason the latest update has every book regardless of form errors out. All I get is a message saying there was an error uploading the file. Just to be on the safe side I have tried to re-download one of my previously downloaded books from my IF app (Instafreebie) and I still get an upload error message. Outside of this first and only issue I have had with this app I would give it five stars however the fact that it’s not working for any new books I buy or books from the authors I review for I have to give it 1 star as I am now forced to use other reading apps rather than the one I want to use.

What changes??!. The last week I have been having issues with table of contents not working properly. I tap on psalm 60 and it takes me to psalm 1. I used a different Bible I have on the app. And it took me to psalm 5. Bibles are very hard to navigate on apps. This issue is making it very unpleasant to use. So I have to hand flip pages through 60 chapters to get where I want to go. This was not the case a couple of weeks ago. What happened?

Don’t Use for Audiobooks Yet. I gave Google’s new Audiobooks support a chance, because I own Google Home products. Playback constantly fails, and then it will not remember the last playback location, returning to the one before it failed. This happens when using voice commands with your Google Home or when casting from this app. The only way playback won’t fail is you either play it locally on your phone or use Bluetooth, which is what I was doing before (and will now return to doing) with Audible. So for ebooks? Sure, go ahead and get it. But if you’re looking to start using this for your new audiobooks purchases, I must suggest you hold off until Google works out all the kinks and it doesn’t feel like a beta feature anymore.

Great app that is far more better than other apps but still more to do. I found this app great, still there are lot of things to improve to make it better. The great thing is that it has best 3d flipping animation while turning pages and it also syncs book to its drive, it can read both pdf and epub though it would better if it could read azw3, djvu, mobi, etc. it would also be better if i could put on some notes in it also it has some issues to be fixed while, i turn on voice for book it shuts off while going to another page simply it could read only a page at a time. i cant edit highlights i've previously made, to edit those highlight i should have to delete whole selected highlight and should be made again. To make this app better if user could make folders to separate different files. It would be great and i would be so thankful if the above issues and features would be upgraded. Thankyou for listening me.

Wish there was more. I much prefer the Apple Books app. It has a section to put books that I want to read so I have an ongoing list. All of the available books & audio books to purchase are in that same app too. To use the google books app you have to go on google play (which is not an app) & go through movies & tv on there as well. The google books app would be much better if they at least had google play in an app instead of going on chrome & typing it in & ultimately if they just had the available books in the books app itself.

Great for text books!!!. I am a college student and I just love how easy it is to upload PDF versions of textbooks to google play on my computer and then view the on my phone. Google play automatically compresses the textbooks and lets me download them for offline viewing on my phone. I can then access the textbook from any device with either the google play app or any computer through their website. The yellow (blue light removal) feature is also great for late night study sessions.

Annotation Features are limited and extremely buggy.. While highlighting text in a book on iOS app, I experience two symptoms repeatedly: when I attempt to highlight a sentence or 2, the highlight spontaneously highlighted the entire page when I didn’t want it to; and when I selected that (now) highlighted page to delete the highlight I didn’t want in the first place, the annotation controls do no appear so I can’t delete it. My only recourse is to keep rebooting the app and or my phone OS just to get this feature to work. After the most recent update for bug fixes, the ability to highlight/annotate has completely disappeared. Now, this app is essentially worthless.

Very Confusing ( ! ). This app seems to allow me to have access to a lot of very nice books, but I can’t figure out how to buy them. Apparently I have to go to the Google App website, but I can’t seem to find that either, and in comparison, the Kindle Reader app on my iPad doesn’t allow me to buy books through it either — although I can download Kindle Unlimited Books through the app, I have to go to the website to actually buy them, so I figured that out, but I can’t figure out this Google Books app website access point ( ? ) I don’t understand why these apps make it so difficult for me to actually buy these books ???

Do you want easy then this is the right one?. My daughter recommended this app because both of us were taking a course that required lots of reading, questions, & class participation. Extra research was required to complete the course. I used other books but I couldn’t under line or add notes to references attached to the original text. So I finally listened to her & switched to Google Play Books. WOW!!!!! Immediate results: my concentration was greatly improved & studying time was decrease drastically. Thanks So Much!!!!!

No feature to keep audiobooks playing in background. Seriously?. I recently decided to give Google audiobooks a try. I just downloaded a Google audibook. I started playing it, then navigated away from the app so that I could check email. Once I navigated away from the app, the audiobook stopped playing. Seriously? How far behind the times do you have to be? Audible, Kobo book audibooks, Nook audibooks. What do they all have in common? As long as you didn’t press the stop button, the audio continues playing after you navigate away from the app. Google Books needs to be update ASAP to allow for background audio for audiobooks; meaning, as long as you don’t hit the stop button, the audibook keeps playing even after you navigate away from the Google Books app.

Love the app but…. I would have given the app 5 stars, however after the latest update I can’t change my font. The text is so small I can hardly ready it. Hope you can fix this soon because I really wanted to read the series I have from Lacey Weathersford. Please fix this quickly. Just in case you readers what know about the series the first book is Trouble with spells.

Works well but UX/design under par. This app works well enough to allow me to simply read my books and take notes… but that’s really all it is. The design interface is bare minimum with no real features to write home about. Compared to the features and usability of Apple’s Books app, this one is pretty basic and under performs what I’ve seen Google put into their other applications and products. Additionally, I am unable to purchase books through it (is this an Apple issue?) which isn’t convenient by any means. This app just feels like it’s due a well deserved refresh and overhaul.

Good but could be better. The app is fine, and while I do like it over the one I had before I still prefer this one over it. While I say that, I can't discount it's mistakes. The epubs that I mainly use Google play books for doesn't have a cover page to it, and I have to go by the names instead. There isn't any shelves to organize your stories by, at least not in the iPhone version which is something that the iBooks (apple's version) has over them, and I plead that they will change it in the near future. You also can't rename any of the epubs, another thing that iBooks let's you do.

Problems with this ap. I have written and written to Google Play Books about my issue, to no avail. Nobody answers my questions or addresses my issue, which is a MAJOR one!!! Often, in the books I buy, the words from one page to another do not correlate!! There are missing sentences, missing words!! I have to try to DECIPHER the meaning of pages that don’t have all the sentences on them that the author writes!! You make it impossible to contact you, and you don’t care to fix your issues!! Also, bought a sample, but the book won’t download. REFUND ME!!! Disgusted and fed up, having spent too much money on books I cannot read for you! Respond, or I will keep giving you awful reviews, which you deserve.

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Darrin Rogers. Great app for keeping and reading my digital library. Easy to use and has every thing one might need. Love It. 5 Stars

The Shepherds Hut by Tim Winton. Winton is a master storyteller and this book is beautifully written in the vernacular and the plot is strong As the stories unfold from the two lead characters, you get an insight into the imaginative richness of Winton's mind. Highly recommended.

Loved it till it broke 😭. I love this app but for the last two weeks it opens up and completely freezes after about 5 seconds. I have lost access to all of the books ive paid for - heartbroken!

Why????. When this app updates it kills all the books you have, you then have to download them again and again. What is most annoying is that the art work from most of the books I have paid for has now gone. Stop it Google make apps properly please.

Throw away your money. Just bought my first audio book, received the receipt and account debited but cannot access the book on the app. Should have stuck with Apple books and Audible. Feel ripped off. No support or answers to my queries.

Not Great. Dull highlighter that doesn’t show up at all in night mode and only works sometimes. Relatively few settings. Kindle, it ain’t. I’d forgotten why I rarely bother with Google books- this would be why. I’m only using it now because Google was the only vendor offering the ebook I wanted.

Love play books. The range of books available is awesome!!

Terrible App to Navigate. Such a terribly designed app. You think they would want you to buy books but it’s a series of puzzles to try to get to the screen where you can pay.

iBooks. I've only been a member for a short while but so far I have been happy with the books 📚 on offer. 🌻🌻🤠

Love it. There has been problems with upload ePub files to the cloud as well as the power consumption quite high. Other than that, I totally love it!

Great, but always crashes. I love that I can read my books on both my iPhone and my PC with this app, but one thing that's really annoying me is that this app keeps crashing whenever I try to download or open a book on it.

So don’t get me wrong but,. This app is amazing! But, I would really appreciate it if you guys could add a shuffle bookshelf option, its simple, I know but it makes the app a bit more sophisticated. I also would appreciate a customisation option for the home screen its not a requirement or anything but just because its white and bland to me and I truly believe it would make the application pop, instead of being slightly empty. I hope you read my review and take what I say seriously. Thanks!

Tiffany DD. Very convenient. Just a problem with the last few lines not shown with some pages. Have to shift the screen from horizontal to vertical to try see the bottom lines of words.

Excellent App. Excellent App and so easy to use. Great selection of books to choose to buy and read, a book lovers paradise.

Text missing from the bottom of the page. Text missing from some pages, because the page size don't fit on the screen, someone is see half of the line at the bottom. On the front page doesn't show the cover photo of the downloaded books. The previous version was awesome this current one have poor quality.

Good selection, lousy software. I’ve been able to find a selection of books on Play that I’ve not been able to find elsewhere. Sometimes, too, they’re cheaper. By contrast, the reading app is basic, though, with poor selection and highlighting one of its clumsiest features. Books are often scanned books that are highlighted unevenly i.e. there are highlight gaps between words in a highlighted sentence. Selection is for words only, not parts of words. Dashes between words makes individual words unselectable. You can’t select directly up because the colour selector box is plonked in the way. The product actually feels abandoned by Google, I wonder if it’s to be axed?

Terrible App - with NO Technical support!. What a terrible app! I listened to a sample of an audio book by David Sedaris. I decided to purchase the book. I paid the amount. It was debited from my bank account, but the book has not appeared in my library. I have tried everything. Wish I NEVER tried Google Play. They take your money, but don’t deliver the goods! Anyone considering using this app, beware and be prepared for an exhausting and frustrating experience!!!

Good app but needs a vertical scrolling option. Links well between phone and iPad but prefer vertical scrolling option. If this feature was added would be 5 stars.

Dreadful. I have never had an easy purchase. Latest purchase hasn’t appeared in my library and have spent 3+ hours trying to get it. NO button to download and no phone number to check. Internet help useless - keeps going round and round and then sent to a website that required me to pay to sort out the problem - which I refuse to do as it will cost more than the book. Has been suggested that I sign out of the app but no where to do this even in settings Even tried to remove and reinstall app without success.

Books not displaying. Just bought a book to read but it’s not loading up. Was reading the sample pages just fine before deciding to buy. Can you fix this?

Great app. It would be incredible to be able to hide the progress (the pages left/percentage complete), or have it on the lower bar so it disappears after some time. Every time I see it, it pulls me out of what I’m reading, cause I never think of reading like this.

Status bar is alway there. Make status bar for time and date hide when reading books. It’s annoying always seeing clock when reading

Star rating. I love the shelf concept, but i feel like you guys really need star ratings visible when browsing books. It makes it way easier to do a quick scan of something to read. Dates would be sweet for tech books but I can see how that’s not relevant to all categories. That’s all!

Awful app. I cannot play anything or view anything on this app whatsoever. I’ve tried troubleshooting and have had to give up. Listening shouldn’t be such a bore! The app seems to stall/freeze on me. Not at all happy. Have also uninstalled and reinstalled. Still the same issue. I give up

Excellent cross platform app. App is really easy to use and is able to sync my books to any device unlike iBooks.

When you reach the end of a sample, you should be presented a link to buy the book. Having to go the website and find the book all over again just isn't intuitive, considering you can download samples within the app

Google play book. Hi, I enjoyed the app very much,although I feel it misses a function (or I can't find). I can't differentiate the book have read with not read yet. Some kind of archive function would be great.

Good app. Can access all my books on iOS. Good options for reading. Changing between black and white backgrounds, text size, dictionary lookup etc.

Frequent problems. Works along much the same lines as other e-book apps except there are frequent problems when logging in to read a book and it wont load the book. Frustrating.

Great for existing books. Works great and it's existing books in your library and syncs well Shame you can't buy new books in the I version

Who said change is not good? If you don’t change I guarantee you will be left behind. Read this book until you know it word for word. It will improve your life. Thanks Ryan Tuckwood for giving me this book.

Currently struggling. I have loved the play books app in the past, but this one keeps freezing and doesn't sync up between devices and won't even let me read on my computer.... this is actually a really big issue because I have my uni textbooks on google play books and I need to be accessing them for class. Really not happy right now

Play Books. Excellent app.i enjoy Google play books but lately it is not working on my IPad, freezes all the time,very frustrating, trying to decide whether to uninstall

Good app.. Great for 100 nights of reading with my son, all the books in one place for many more nights to come. Would be good to get a freebie every now an then.

Great for ios users. i was given a google play voucher and was wrapped that play books was available for us apple users. Books are easy to find and read but it would be better if the read books are easier to distinguish from the not read ones yet

A dogs breakfast. In the latest version the list of bookmarks selectable from the menu gives no indication where they are and clicking on them does nothing. If text is highlighted it is invisible in the text but appears listed in the notes tab in the menu. Clicking on highlights in the list of notes tab sometimes takes you to that page, at other times it takes you to a different page. Likewise after adding a note to a section of text it is invisible and only appears in the list of notes selectable from the menu. Thus reading through text you have annotated heavily you have no indication where you have made notes and have to engage in guesswork by selecting the note list from the menu.

It just like reading a normal book. It is a book

Good working with this App!. I will give it 4 stars as it works for those books and articles I need to read. A little annoying all the other books included I am mostly not interested in. I know this is part of their commercial brainwashing I find it a pain.

Sample to purchase doesn’t work. For too long now it’s been necessary to re-find a book that you’ve read the sample for in order to purchase it. The “would you like to read more” is meaningless and irritating when it doesn’t do anything useful. It is way past time that this was fixed.

An enjoyable app. I do like this app and enjoy using it. I just would prefer if every book was available to be read as it is presented in it is original form, with the original page numbers included. That's my preferred way of presentation of the books. All-in-all this app is easy to use.

Page numbers. I have problems with page numbers constantly changing. It’s very difficult to navigate and find where I was up to because the chapter links don’t go where they are supposed to, and the same page shows up as a different page number every time I open play books. It takes me at least 2 minutes every time I open it to find where I was up to.

Good app. Only downside is not being able to purchase books via the app, but still definitely recommended

Play books white out. Hi, a message to the program writer. I find the program has a white out every three to four times I open it to continue reading my books on my Ipad Air2. The only fix at present is to delete the app from the ipad and reinstall. Hope you read this review. Thanks.

Happy with Play Books. I am happy with Google Play Books, especially now that it is more fully featured. Have had no problems reading ebooks bought and the range of books and prices are good. Still the same 4 years on from original post.

Disappointing. Crashes repeatedly, absolute junk of a product. I am truly underwhelmed and horrified that Google are proud to slap their brand onto this piece of trash. All I require is a sleek, seamless experience but I couldn’t even get past the first page without the screen blacking out. The absolute worst and most dysfunctional app I have ever used, definitely does not set to do what it claims. Not sure if actual reader or frustration simulator...

Decent reader. Devs seem to have fixed the most annoying bug, so thank you!! This app is decent, it’s still a shame you can’t purchase books inside the app though. Quite annoying. Old review: App bugs out almost every time you try to re-open it after not reading for a little while (like an hour or more). You just get a spinning wheel and can’t get out of the book or see any text. Forcing the app closed and reopening is the only way to fix it I can find, which is a pain to do if you read in frequent short bursts. Also, you can’t buy books within the app. That’s just basic.

Could use a few adjustments. Love having cheap ebooks! Certainly makes it easy to acquire good books! My only issue with the app at the moment is there isn’t a scrolling mode for reading. I usually download my spins from the play store and use the iBooks app to read them for the scrolling function. Honestly that is the only reason tho would love to see that put into the app!

Just a really great app. Nothing less than what you would expect from Google. Upload books you own in .epub format and read anywhere and on anything.

no purchase button. There is no option to buy and download book, only button”How to read this book”, and when I press it it’s says “ in this app you can read book which you purchase in google play” , that’s it, no purchase button

Issues loading new books. Basically, if nothing is loading and reinstalling doesn’t help you need to go into your phone settings and enable mobile data. Bruh, this took me way too long to figure out. Will make it 5 stars once a warning for disabled mobile data is added!

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Highlights issue. Highlights not slowing up right away. Huge delay and inconsistent.

Hyacinth in customer service is terrible. I had an issue I need help from customer support and the rep hyacinth was horrible. He told me to ask for help in again in 90 days and is asking me to wait 90 days to submit my request again which is a long time. Do they not realize 90 days is a long time for a customer to wait?

Mediocre for comics. First off I’ll say that I’ve only used this app for comics, so if you want to read books this review isn’t for you. As a comic reader it is serviceable but not great. The biggest issue is a complete lack of a zoom function. On my 12.9” iPad that isn’t a dealbreaker, but on something smaller that would be a pain. They try and make up for it by having a feature that makes the bubbles of text pop big in the order you should read them, which makes the small text easier to read. This works ok, but I found that too often it covered art I wanted to see, and toggling back and forth never felt super comfortable. It’s a neat option, but it does a poor job of replacing pinch zoom. Really, if you want to read comics, you’re better off using Apple Books, Madefire, or ComiXology. This is only worth using if you get a good price or the comic isn’t available elsewhere.

Goes to first page. When I come back from another app, first page of the book is opened. Happens every time. Very annoying.

Missing some features. It can’t handle ToC with multiple levels, and doesn’t allow me to adjust the margins. Otherwise it would be great.

Terrible for study. I had expected something ease and straightforward- but I can highlight only one word at a time and when I get back the highlighted words are gone!!!!!! Complete waste of time studying on it. Really? What is the purpose?

App just sucks. The purchases/uploads filter just won’t work while it works on the web version.

Does not Keep my Place Across Devices. Other than that Mrs Lincoln... When I go from one device it does not show my place on another device! Perhaps this is because I use Apple or perhaps because it's a preview but frankly that would not change my rating, Google has no excuse for that feature not working perfectly alll the time.

Log in failure. I tried logging in and since I forgot my password I had a code sent to my email. I used it and wasn’t able to change my password and log in and I tried three times. Deleting the app now

Informative book. This book is very informative on the process of qualifying for a mortgage. Great real investment plan for Canadians without all the motivational hype. There is also a link to the author’s brokerage team I highly recommend it for all Canadian real estate investors.

Better than Apple iBooks. Way better than the stock books app. The way it seamlessly syncs amongs devices and the functions are so good.

Getting error frequently. Cannot highlight

Google services is dying?. All is now just video right ads and ads revenue right. The eBook App is sluggish page turn on ePub files struggles and freezes every 3rd page turn. Besides that the app now pushes buy content and folders for my own content no longer allowed, it’s all PDFs and ePub files now together. Have 1000 files and quite impossible to manage. They ending the audio app so wonder how long will keep this alive.

Good but could be better. Good customizable reading options for font, size etc however I wish the background/page colour selection could be further modified especially when viewing on a desktop, the computer white background is a little too bright for me.

Great app. Enjoy to read whenever and wherever I want to

Lost my money while buying books overseas. Since the books can be purchased only in the currency of the country where the email is registered, I lost my money in failed transactions which were deducted from my account but never acknowledged by google. Contacting the play store did not help either.

Shelves??. The app is great, but why can't I access the shelves I make on the desktop app?? It would be great to organise books the way I would like to.

Awful app. In comparison to ibooks this app is ridiculous!

Not working. From an iPhone 13 purchased a month ago, the app is frozen

Question is: why don’t they fix it??. The complaints about this app have not changed. Dinosaur, buggy, constantly freezes, not customizable even in humblest most technologically insignificant ways. They ask for feedback. I’ll wager the feedback hasn’t changed in a decade, because people keep reporting/asking for the same things that are never improved. I use this only when there is no other option for an ebook, and without fail, it is an unpleasant experience every time. Why don’t they fix this monstrosity?

I hate it so much. Partial payments are not allowed so I will have this $8.50 in google play gift card for the rest of my life, since I cannot purchase anything at that exact amount. Reading series like manga or graphic novels is an awful experience, since the series don’t stay together. The app acts like a bookstore, where everything is individual, so that would make sense, if you could purchase products from the app itself. So if this is simply a reading app now, instead of a marketplace, why is it so difficult to view products together? You can place items on a shelf but you can’t make them go in chronological order all the time. My Skip Beat shelf goes 1 2 3 11 10 16. It would be so nice for a reading app to move seamlessly into the next book in a series, and be smart enough to know it’s in your library. I know apps don’t have that yet, so it’s not strictly a Google Play problem, but it would be nice. Now it just says « you’ve reached the end of the book. There are more on the Google Play website ». No link, so go do it yourself! Every time, for all 45 volumes I have in my library. You can’t even tap on the name of the author so search them directly. Maybe even a playlist function would work. Like Peloton does now. There must be some really strict rights agreements that make it so you can’t purchase books from any reading app anymore…

Definitely need to have. Works great!! :)

cannot purchase. Why would I even use the app to GAIN NEW KNOWLEDGE if the option of NEW books is not avaliable?

Bookmarks are broken!. The bookmark functionality is broken. When you create a bookmark, it goes to a random page.

Shelves. Shelves should allow you to add books from within the shelf instead of one by one.... classic google, taking ages to put out features and doing them halfassed. Thank you for adding shelves to the app. This was a long asked for feature!

DRM Enabled Copy. Play books is DRM enabled. I have a major concern. At the rate at which many of the Google services are shuttering how would we have offline access to the books that we have purchased. Even if we have access to a copy we would not be able to read it on another software or device unless the DRM protection is lifted from our copy. This becomes a major hassle for those of us who would like to future proof our purchased copy so that we can read them in the future as well, in any case that the company shuts down. Please respond to urgent concern. Thanks.

Bad for adding notes to readings. On ipad, I find the app not so user friendly for adding reading notes and navigate through them despite of having those option. However, it’s fine for stocking ebooks from different sources.

Huh??. I looked up wof then I got into the ebook but it wouldn’t let me read!!

Books gone. I’ve purchased new books yesterday and they loaded to my library. When I went to start reading in the evening not only the new books but everything in my library is gone an I didn’t change account. Very frustrated!

Shuts down. Every time I’m reading a book after about 2 or 3 chapters I can’t get into any following chapters I’m always faced with a white blank.

Glitching issues. I purchased a text book for this app and every time I highlight a sentence or a paragraph it automatically jumps to a different sentence that i did not highlight. Same with the page turning it skips pages It’s very frustrating! Pls fix this!

Constant glitches. This app worked great on my galaxy S8 but switch to the iPhone 11 Pro Max and the highlight feature works 3/10 times. Even after closing the app and reopening it, it happens as well.

Workable, but basic. Glitchy on iPhone.. Why does this app jitter and flash every time I tap the screen? I guess because Google doesn’t support iOS very well. I wish I could do a full text search of all my cookbooks with this app. Strange that Google, the king of search doesn’t allow searching multiple books at once. Note that is possible in Google Books via the browser. I wish I could adjust the margin size.

38 books disappeared. Fun fact, any books you buy through the google play bookstore can potentially disappear randomly and the chat help/ support is useless. If you depend on this app to study and or get your work done DON’T. I have hundreds of dollars worth of books I cannot access and all of my studying and work is on hold until ??? who knows when, considering the support staff didn’t know either. Wasted hours of my time trying to troubleshoot for nothing.

Always many months late. Always many many months late on releasing the newer entries of the book series that I am following where as amazon is almost always on time. Kepp this up and I’m leaving for amazon for good.

Ripped me off, non negotiable, just use Amazon. The book I purchased was formatted to look like a novel, but it was just a reader’s guide, and Google was unwilling to refund or exchange the item for me. It was foolish for me to stop using Amazon, I just liked the way Google formatted its pages. But if you read covers very carefully, this won’t happen to you.

Maybe more colours for highlighting?. I love the app but it always lags a lot as soon as I open it (but maybe that’s because I downloaded so many books with it). Anyways, it’s very helpful but if possible could there be more than 4 colours to use when highlighting?

2010. I’m going out

A lot of bugs. I used this app for many years and never had a serious issues. But for the last couple weeks it started to crash during load. Sometimes you need to start app few times until you will able to open the book. Also, when it crashes during the reader it doesn’t allow to open same book again pretending that this book already open on your a other device. Fix it or i will have to switch my favourite reading app to kindle or ibook

Why????. Why take away the ability to buy books through the app? If I have to use my computer to buy books I won’t be using this one to read or buy a book when I can use amazon, the app or on a computer to buy books. Same reason I quit using iBooks except I can only use the app for that one now, not the computer.

Technical issue. The app has worked great until a couple weeks ago now when I open an ebook the app kind of blinks or flashes when I touch the screen. All my other apps work great and the app works great for my iPad the issue is on my iPhone only. I’ve also done all available updates for the app and phone as well

page doesn’t load. sometimes i turn the page and it’s just black!!

Highlight feature doesn’t work.. I’m so disappointed, I was so excited when I first downloaded the app. Everything worked fine for a minute but now I can’t highlight anything. I even tried deleting and redownloading the app and reinstalling my e-book but it won’t work. Please fix the highlighting issue.

I like it. I like this app because it let’s me read for free but I have no Internet but I still like it and my favourite thing to read is dying of a pug.💞💘💝💓💕💗💖🥰😍😘

Not free. You have to pay money to actually read the book

The app is not compatible with my iPhone 11 Pro Max.. I use google playbook on my iPhone 11 Pro max. I bought the NIV devotional men's bible a while ago. The app on this phone will not let me highlight bible verses or make note on specific pages. It is very frustrating and disappointing. Can you guys fix this ? It was working perfectly on my previous iPhone 8 Plus until I swapped phones in October.

Bugs. The bugs in this app are insane. Come on Google please give us a good app. You can do better: Pages are slow to flip Books take forever to open Highlighting is a nerve racking experience Forget about taking notes I am using an iPad Pro.

My favourite reading app. No lag, always saves page where left

Sucks that purchases don’t show up. Wasting my time troubleshooting why this crappy app doesn’t sync purchases with my play books purchases.

Awful. Never had an app so frustrating and awful to work with

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update broken. Google Play now only works (doesn't freeze completely) in airplane mode. Iphone and two ipads with different ios versions. This happened at the same time for all three devices. Clearly Google is at fault here, but they refuse to provide support. Use Kindle, Audible, Nook over this failed app. Should be Zero stars. There is no need to go through a long updating books every time you start this app. It should open up in my library instead of trying to sell books. No more Google book purchases until they get back to the previous level of functionality.

Zero help from customer support. The 2 stars are just for the various choices for books - I just can’t get at them. Despite “buying” the latest book from there, and the app being on my phone, I cannot “load” the book to read it. I tried all their troubleshooting tips to no avail. I finally asked for my money back (what’s the point of havjng purchased a book I can’t read?), but the form emails I got back just said no. I guess they are punishing those of us who now have iPhones?! Anyway, I will never spend another dime buying books with this app.

All my books have disappeared. In the past couple days I had updated the app because of a buffering problem when swiping pages. The screen would blink every page I swiped on. Today I open the app and every book I bought has vanished. I tried troubleshooting the problem from someone else who had the same problem on the Google support page. I was instructed to remove my account and sign back in. Still the issue is not resolved.

Best book app + one suggestion. Great book app. My one suggestion is to enable highlighting across multiple pages. I found that it stops short of what’s on the next page (unlike the kindle app). With this one change this app would be flawless in my eyes.

The Internet Is Upon Us. In today's world we now have the feature make books with the help of the internet. Years ago you couldn't have this feature which meant that you had to write on paper and all that other stuff! I expect Google to do good on this app!

Warning: books disappear from library.. Warning. Unlike the competitor, books disappear from your library and it is up to you to not only figure out why but do all the work yourself to get them back. Sometimes you succeed, but I’ve ,ost two completely. The company suggests that I deleted them despite a warning but my proof against that is that I cannot repurchase them since they’re still listed as being in my library. The absolute worst suggestion from Google Play was that I should return my device to "factory settings"! I’m not going to do that, so I’m waving goodbye to the $22 I spent on those two books.

What’s going on?. Hello! I have been using playbooks on my iphone for some time, I love the app so much and it’s very convenient and easy to use, the problem is It seems I can no longer see how many pages I have left in a chapter reading a book! Only the number of pages left out of the whole entire book This feature was unique and unfortunately somehow it isn’t available for me? How can I fix this?

You can’t search specifically what you’re looking for anymore. I used to be able to search the word “Alien” and some books and comics would pop up and I could browse between which one I’d want to look at. Now when I type in “Alien”, the ONLY thing that pops up is romance novels and other random books that I have no interest in. And even then the results are limited to maybe 20 books. The library used to seem endless. Am I doing something wrong? I really want to search for more comics but absolutely none are popping up when I use the search bar to look for them.

Feature Request. I absolutely love this app. I read all my books on here. **Request**: please make it possible to right margin notes on here with the Apple Pencil (or any other stylus). We already have the ability to type notes and highlight. I just want to be able to write the note with the stylus.

Google Play Not Compatible with Ipad. Downloaded purchased book and find that it is challenging to read on ipad. The text jumps back to the intro making reading impossible. I can chapter to chapter but it jumps back. Please fix developers — the book I purchased is so hard to find and I hope you will explore this further by playing with it yourselves. Thanks for listening.

I’ve always loved this app. I’ve always loved this app nhave been buying book for a few years now but I switched over to an I phone n it won’t allow me I but the book any more n it says I have to go to the google play store, when I do that it makes me download google pay! Why can’t I buy my last 3 books of this series threw the google books app

Highlighting is buggy beyond belief!. The highlights feature is poorly designed and totally buggy. You have to select a single word, and then use selection bars to extend the selection. The highlight menu often gets in the way of the area you want to select into. You can’t extend selection across column or page boundaries. Once you have the selection you want, it often takes several presses on the color to get it to highlight. Then, there’s a 50/50 chance that the highlight gets saved correctly. If you rotate the page or leave the app, the highlight may be over a totally different piece of text, or it may no have been saved at all. Then, apparently, there is no way to retrieve the highlights. You can get a document with links to them, but not the highlighted text itself. Otherwise it’s ok. So, fine for bubblegum reading. Avoid if at all possible for serious reading.

Love this app. I am an avid reader & I love being able to pull up an app very easily & start right where I left off whenever I get the time. There is so many book choices to choose from, never have any problem finding what I need! Such a great app that I’ve had for years & I will always continue to use it!

2024 and still far behind Kindle. I'm reading on a 4th gen iPad, I read using both Google Books and Kindle. Kindle has far more features like saving and naming settings, definitions are looked up immediately when you highlight a word, can display the reading progress three different ways, option to hide clock, etc. C'mon Google! I'm going to buy books on Kindle instead of Google Books 😁...

Crashes now. I'm giving it a three because this is a really great e-book app. It's much easier to use and I prefer it a lot better than the iPhone's iBook app for sure. But lately it keeps crashing on me, I tap on it and it goes to open but then crashes. I've uninstalled it a couple times, install it again and it's the same problem. And I'm getting extremely frustrated. It was working well until two weeks ago when it started doing this.

Great on a large screen. Most of my reading is on my tablet which has a larger screen than my phone. I think the tablet is just mix of size and weight. The google books app is well set up for that usage. I recommend it. I use it for textbooks, novels, and the occasional graphic novel. I've had no problems with any of those formats.

The Moments Between. This was definitely a good read & hard to put down. Cristina Thompson’s writing was both superb & compelling. The hidden mysteries peaked such an inquisitiveness I wanted to keep going. This rather esoteric journey of one young woman’s pursuit of truth proved real & moving. I would have to say reading this book was like an encounter with the true nature of the giver of life itself. Ms. Thompson’s creativity is absolute genius.

Terrible experience.. The biggest problem with this app is that it doesn’t keep your place when it crashes. The words “network error” might not be the apps fault, but the fact that I can’t go back to where it left off is. Also, I cannot seem to get it to download the audiobook. The network error, I’m sure, would be resolved if it would just download the book, but it won’t. Even on my Wi-Fi doesn’t seem to want to download the book in the background, and gets continues network errors. Once these issues are solved, it’s a very nice looking app. But, it is currently barely functional.

APP HAS TONS OF BUGS LATELY. The app keeps freezing, I can only read one page after opening a book cause it freezes and I can't turn the page. I can't exit the book, bring up the chapters menu, the book settings, nothing. I force close and reopen the app, but it keeps on freezing. Also, something that REALLY bothers me is that I haven't been able to upload the epub books I buy for about a year now. I've contacted the developer about this and posted it in a review, to both of which I've received NO RESPONSE. I've been VERY DISAPPOINTED in Google about the production of this app for a long time now.

Would be better with more features. I enjoy having all of my books located in the Google sphere. However, I do agree with reviews listed years ago that it would be nice to be able to purchase books from the app and not just online. Plus with the added technology of the Apple Pencil, it would be great to have the ability to highlight & take notes to be able to look back on at a later date.

Indispensable for research. Google has digitized books that you will never see unless you pay hundreds of dollars to buy a print copy or live close to a major library and are allowed to look at a print copy briefly. Many of these volumes you would never see otherwise. I'm not sure if there is a better use of the technology.

Doesn’t update previous left of place on different devices!!!. Not sure what happened but lately it hasn’t been tracking right the previous place where I was previously. So annoying!!!! Plus I wish you could edit the color of text. My Samsung tablet has an awesome feature that changes the settings at night and changes the font to orange to pop more but it’s not an option on other devices.

No translation available. Be aware that if you’re buying foreign language ebooks, google claims that it translates, but that is only via a temporary pop up window and only with limited text. My attempt to insert notes with the translations of various phrases failed to be accessible after the fact. The translation feature works great with the occasional foreign word or phrase here or there, but that’s it.

Horrible and broken.. If you can find a different way of downloading and reading a book, I suggest you do so...the application bookmarks do no work. Changing direction from portrait to landscape ALWAYs kick you back to a default random same bookmark. Extremely unproductive and unprofessional app. The tap area to bring in the bookmarks is extremely fickle and it sits and spins on a downloaded book for what seems like no discernible reason. The book I bought was a waste of money because I can't share it with another app that actually works ( iBooks or Kindle).. STAY AWAY.

Highlight suggestion. I’m using an iPad and I wish I can highlight certain parts of the reading easier and smoother. There is not much freedom in terms of highlighting, side-noting, or even just writing on the pages. For example, I need to hold and drag the lines to highlight but sometimes it does not register or sometimes it just flips the page in the middle or dragging. I think having a highlighter option separately might solve the issue. Other than that, I’m fairly satisfied with the app.

Pages freeze when using speak screen.. When using speak screen once the page is finished reading the app freezes. It doesn’t turn to the next page and continue reading like in other apps. Really would like this fixed. Overall great app, just that minor issue I’ve come across. Update: turned off page animations then it started working fine.

Love it. I love that I can read my google books on my iPhone. It does take a while to download the books which is quite annoying. I thank God I don't have to have two devices to read on different platforms. I wish apple would catch up and allow iBooks on others devices.

Cross platform!. Better than iBooks or Kindle in the fact it's cross platform. Has there standard features you'd expect from a modern e book reader. Can be a bit buggy regarding downloads for offline reading but overall works great all things considered. I just wish it was compatible with an actual e-ink reader.

Disappointed. The whole reason I enjoy audio books is because I travel A LOT! They keep me awake. Most apps allow you to download the book and play it at your convenience. With this app, you purchase the book but can't download. You have to stream it. That works fine if you are driving around town, except I don't need it then. Most of the time, I am driving in the middle of nowhere with no cell service. There are gaps of 30 - 45 minutes where I can't listen to my book. Quite frustrating. Will not buy anymore books from here.

Deleting content. The catalog is great and the fact that they offer audiobooks is also great but the app has two major problems (for a while now): I lost the count on the Number of times I have made all my purchases available off-line and then when I switched to my other account the app simply DELETES ALL MY CONTENT!!! And the second issue is that on lower speed internet connections the app simply won’t download content. It keeps informing the same error that it wasn’t possible to download the files. Sometimes I have to try for hours to download some of my purchases.

Where are my books?. Cannot see my library even though I'm logged into the correct account. It just says that something went wrong and the try again button does nothing. It would be really nice if I had the option of disconnecting my account from just this one app instead EVERY GOOGLE APP ON MY PHONE so that I could try and fix the problem without it being a huge headache. I'm really starting to understand why google stopped using "do no evil" as their mission statement because their apps are getting more and more f%*cky with every update.

Updated review. My previous review was very negative. I thought that if you tapped on a note too close to an edge or top or bottom of a page, it would turn the page, (or insert a bookmark) and while that’s true, I just learned that you can type in the middle of a sentence to see the note.

Lacking. I love the app. And I love having all the abilities it does have BUT I do not love not being able to tell which books I’ve read, which I have not and other things. Having the ability to move them between folders would be pretty amazing. It would help out in so many ways that you can keep track of things. I use this app for my books, children’s books I read to my girls. And having to ability to sorta through them instead of having to browse SLOWLY would be very welcome.

Could be Better. This is an okay app but it takes a while for one of my books to download. I mean the only reason I have this app is so I wouldn't have to buy all the books I have again in the Apple bookstore. I was hoping there was a way to transfer them but there isn't. I am hoping they fix the time delay soon.

Great Reading. I have read more than forty books on playbooks. If I change from my i-phone to my laptop, it tells me what page I was on on the other device, and takes me to that page. I can change the size of the type -- something you can't do with a print book. Great program!

Not good for text books.. After purchasing two text books on Google Play Books for the current semester, I’ve come to realize that this is not a good app for students. There are good things: the search is powerful, as one would expect from a Google product, and the navigation is easy. Unfortunately, problems make the app unusable. The syncing of those highlights from the web version shifted by a word or two. The highlighting process is slow and resets the view to the top of the page after each highlight. But most frustratingly, the app regularly freezes and shuts down when navigating notes and highlights. This particularly frustrating when attempting to reference notes that have already been taken. This is a well-reviewed app, and I’m sure it’s great for casual reading, but if you would like to have your textbooks on your iPad, don’t rely on it. You’ll only be left angry and wanting to throw your iPad out the window.

Please restore the old page animation. Small detail but it makes a big difference. The old page flip animation in landscape mimicked turning a page in a real book. The new animation is like you have a xerox copy of a book (2 scanned pages per piece of paper). It is really distracting while reading because the page animation is too long. Please return to the old page flip animation style. If you are going through the effort to mimic a real page turn make it look like turning a page in a real book!

Even with Apple, I can't switch. I started using this app 4 years ago, and I switched to Apple 2 years ago. I kept using Google Play because 1) I already purchased books 2) They have ebooks great for school and 3) it's a good app. I give it a 4 because the books are sometimes wacko or the free books don't have all the content so you have download another free version of the book. But the app never crashes, and it's easy to use.

A book worth multiple reads. Got this book originally for free was so hooked I’ve paid for each of the remaining series, plus joined the Facebook fan club. Best books I’ve read in years. Jodi doesn’t use “fillers” aka retale the story in each next book to the point your eyes go crossed like some authors do now. The story is for females and males and young and old. Something for everyone!

Awesome ability to switch accounts. I had purchases on two different accounts, not realizing the account I had it linked to during purchasing. It's awesome to be able to switch between the two google accounts to access these different books.

Feature request 🙏🙏🙏🙏. Google Play Books for iOS has basic reading functionality but there’s still room for improvement. Below are some features that will help: ✅ Instant lookup: Please allow users to download offline dictionaries and display definitions instantly when they select a word or phrase (no need to hit the Translate button) ✅ Text-to-speech: Read selected text/paragraphs (or the whole book) out loud with iOS’s built-in TTS voices. ✅ Better popup window for Translated text (it’s quite small currently) ✅ More annotation options: underline, edit bookmark titles, etc. ❕Overall I prefer the reading experience on the iOS Kindle app for now. However the book selection on Google Play Books is better (I like foreign-language books). Hopefully the app will improve with future updates. Thank you for your hard work ❤️ // I’ll change the rating to ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ as soon as there’s a feature upgrade

Love the app. But on iPads without a home button the top bar that houses the multitasking dots, clock and battery as well as the bottom navigation bar does not vanish when book open like it used to. This makes it kind of distracting to read a book please fix. Other then that no issues and glad Google still has this app available to iOS and iPad OS devices

Slow as molasses, not for musicians.. It's OK, but page turns takes over a second to happen. No highlighting capability, no real navigation features. Not my first, second, or third choice in readers. I'm a piano player and was forced to download new music from the publisher in this format. Not happy about it. I need pages to turn quickly and not have the bookmark bar pop up instead. Other programs I can write on the page, zoom in, highlight, etc.

Not working. I have been using this app for years and it has always been a wonderful app. Till today when I got a ARC from a author and I tried downloading to put in google books says “something went wrong with the download” I have tried all day and it wouldn’t download. I love google play books because of the text to speech option and I can see all my books on all my devices and keep me on the page I am across all devices. But now it’s not working.

Buggy implementation of a good idea. I like the app in theory: Syncing notes automatically to Google Docs is awesome, a really killer feature. And the ability to upload and sync hundreds of epubs between devices for free is great. The problem is that the app is simply too buggy to be usable. Lots of rendering problems. Images and sometimes whole pages just won't display. Memory leaks cause the app to use hundreds and hundreds of MBs while constantly losing my downloaded books. You'd think displaying some HTML in an app would be easier for Google.

Fixed!. Nice app. The newest update fixed my unreadable books. Old review: The app doesn't make it clear how to purchase books on Apple devices. You have to buy the books on the website, then read the books in the app. I like the night reading function. I can't view any of my purchased books in the app. It freezes whenever I attempt to open them. I have an iPhone 6. Ripoff.

Thanks for bringing definitions back. Thank you. Now if you want you can make it even better by being able to tap on any word and have the definitions pop up right under the text. No pop up screens nothing intrusive, just a quick definition or translation under the selected word.

more fonts pleaseeee. PLEAAAASE please let me use a downloaded font on here Or like, let me upload a font on here I want to use a dyslexia friendly font so bad ALSO My downloaded books keep undownloading themselves and like, it's not the worst thing in the world, but i use it for traveling and it's super annoying when I want to read a book and it's telling me that I have to download it again. Like sir I am in the middle of the ocean wdym "download it again" ??? AND THEN I would love it if I could set up my viewing preferences if that makes sense? Like my phone is in dark mode but I don't want to read in dark mode, and it's a smidge annoying to have to keep manually switching to warm lighting everytime I open something

Frustrating. I’m not often moved to write a review of an app, but i feel i should here. It crashes anytime I turn my iPad from landscape to portrait orientation. When I zoom in on a scanned page (they’re all scanned) I have to unzoom in order to turn the page; this seems like something that should be easy to fix. I gave it two stars because they have books on it that are unavailable on all other electronic platforms. Aside from that, 👎🏻.

Needs continuous highlighting feature.. Highlights have to first be selected then chosen instead of a quick highlight feature as in kindle. Highlighting is also confined to only what can be seen on the page. Continuous highlighting across multiple pages needs to be added to make highlighting more practical. I've been requesting this feature within the app feedback for over six months with no improvement. Highlighting and notes also have various other bugs that keep getting overlooked.

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Language English
Price Free
Adult Rating 4+ years and older
Current Version 6.5.2
Play Store com.google.GoogleBooks
Compatibility iOS 16.0 or later

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The application Google Play Books & Audiobooks was published in the category Books on 06 December 2010, Monday and was developed by Google LLC [Developer ID: 281956209]. This program file size is 78.24 MB. This app has been rated by 9,414 users and has a rating of 4.4 out of 5. Google Play Books & Audiobooks - Books app posted on 19 January 2024, Friday current version is 6.5.2 and works well on iOS 16.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.google.GoogleBooks. Languages supported by the app:

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