Google Play Books APK Download for Android

Google Play Books

A book is your best friend and this fact cannot be denied. Although the world is going digital and there are many ways to kill your time and to get knowledge, such as watching videos, listening to audios etc. But the importance of books cannot be ignored.

But with the latest advancements in technology, book reading is also going digital. Nowadays, you can keep a whole library in your pocket in the form of your smartphone. Google Play is such an app which behaves as a digital library for you.

Google Play Books allows you to buy, download and read E-books. It offers you some useful features which you don’t normally get with other similar apps.

Key Features of Google Play Books

Explore Tons of E-Books

You can explore tons of E-books available on Google Play. It includes all the famous books by renowned writers. I have searched for Masnavi & Shahab Nama and luckily I found both of them.

Hence, you don’t have to worry about the availability of books as you will get most of the books in Google Play Books.

Comfortable Reading Experience

Google Play Books provides you a very satisfying and comfortable reading experience. It offers you several controls while reading that includes:

• Highlight Text: You can highlight the text while reading and it offers you 4 colors to choose for highlighting; red, yellow, green and blue.
• Search a word: You can search any word in the whole book. You just have to long press the word and choose the search icon.
• Add Notes: A complete book reading experience cannot be completed without the ability to add notes. Google Play Books lets you add notes anywhere in the book.
• Change Text Style: You can change the text style, change its font style and can adjust alignment.
• Change Page Color: You can even change the color of the page. It lets you choose between three colors; white, light caramel and black.
• Night Mode: Google Play Books gives you a night mode feature to make your eyes comfortable.
• Add Bookmarks: Adding bookmarks is necessary while reading books and a great reading experience has the bookmarks feature. Google Play Books also offers you a bookmark feature.

Listen to the Book

Feeling lazy and don’t want to read the book? No worries, you can listen to the book. The app uses Google text-to-speech engine to read aloud the book so that you can enjoy the book even when you don’t have the mood to read.

Know the Definitions

Google Play Books offers you a really useful feature to display you definitions. When you long press on a word, it displays its definition.

This feature comes really handy when you don’t know what a word means.

Translate any Word

When you long press on a word or select a sentence, there is an icon to translate it. By clicking it, you can translate the word or sentence to any language.

Summary

Pros

• Live translation
• Live definitions
• 50-page sample of paid books
• Have all the basic tools
• Can read books offline

Cons

• Most of the books are paid
• Not available in some countries

Is There Any Alternative

There are many alternatives for Google Play Books:

• ReadEra
• Scribd
• Audible
• Kobo