Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Mark Rehberger

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

Roy Young

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

Kevin L

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

Cristian DRAGHICI

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

Angelika

Okay app if you can tolerate reading on your phone. Wouldn't recommend if you prefer listening to your books instead. I would use it but the text to speech voice is so unnatural it's hard to listen to. Listening to books is much easier for me. I have so many books in my library but I don't use the app bc I can't listen to my books. If the voice options are ever changed I'd use the app but until then I won't really be using it.

Fabiano Melo

It works just well for my needs, but it's not perfect. I use it mostly to read PDFs, so if the double-touch zoom feature could remove only the borders of the document and fit the text to the device's screen area instead of applying 200% zoom like it does now, it would be awesome. Similar to what happens with some web pages when we double-touch the screen (it fits the text to the screen area of the device).