Google Play Books & Audiobooks 4+
Books and audiobooks
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- Free
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Description
All the books that you love. On the page or out loud. Anywhere that 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 favourite from recommendations personalised just for you.
LISTEN TO A GREAT AUDIOBOOK ANYWHERE, ANY TIME
● 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 catalogue of millions of books
● Read your books, comics and textbooks even when you’re offline
● Tap the page and watch your favourite 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.
What’s New
Version 6.8.1
* Feature improvements and fixes
Ratings and Reviews
Good
Pretty darn good
Brilliant
A lot of books cheaper than Kindle
Highlighting on iPad Pro trackpad does not work
The most important feature for me is highlighting text in books. When however using an iPad Pro 11” (2022) with keyboard & trackpad - highlighting with the trackpad doesn’t work. Right after selecting the text to be highlighted (using the trackpad), the highlight options disappear automatically. In other words, they cannot be clicked.
This seems like a unintended bug since there are other, although more cumbersome, ways to get it working on the same device.
Highlighting does work on the same iPad Pro when I:
- Use my fingers directly on the iPad screen
- Open Google Play Books in Safari and try highlighting with the iPad Pro trackapd there (this works just like expected!)
- Start highlighting text with the iPad Pro trackpad, but then press & hold CTRL on the keyboard. This for some reason ensures that the highlight options don’t disappear automatically and can now be clicked. If you do it in any other order, the highlight options disappear again.
If you adress this issue I will revise my rating as this would make the app work for me again.
App Privacy
The developer, Google, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contact Info
- Contacts
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
- Other Data
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- Search History
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Provider
- Google LLC
- Size
- 77.8 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Afrikaans, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Google Inc.
- Price
- Free
Supports
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Siri
Get things done within this app using just your voice.