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Google Play Books

Discover a vast library of books to search, preview, and buy, read free public domain books, sync page positions, and back up purchases online for a seamless reading experience across multiple devices.

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Cost / License

  • Freemium (Pay once)
  • Proprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Chrome OS
  • Android Tablet
  • iPad
  • Android Auto
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Features

  1.  Built-in Dictionary
  2.  Catalog
  3.  Book search
  4.  Built-in translation
  5.  File Search

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Comments and Reviews

   
Top Positive Comment
Nico Parker
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It's a great place to find all kinds of ebooks.

Top Negative Comment
Sorin Sbarnea
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It has no ability to share your books or even to make the list of books you have visible to others.

vinaykumardoddamani
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It can translate old books written in French, Latin or other languages from the integration with Google translate app ( for offline use).

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AppStores & Other Links

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What is Google Play Books?

Google Play Books lets you search, preview, and buy millions of books using Google Book Search. Books in the public domain and certain copyrighted books can be read and downloaded in their entirety for free. You can buy ebooks for reading on your computer, Apple device, Android device, Nook, or Sony eReader in the Google ebookstore. All purchased eBooks are backed up online, and your page positions are automatically synced between devices.

Google Play Books information

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  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    One time purchase (perpetual license) + free version with limited functionality.

  • Rating

    Average rating of 2.7

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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Afrikaans
    • Arabic
    • Bulgarian
    • Catalan; Valencian
    • Croatian
    • Czech
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Estonian
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Hebrew
    • Hindi
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Latvian
    • Lithuanian
    • Malay
    • Norwegian Bokmål
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Serbian
    • Chinese
    • Slovak
    • Slovene
    • Spanish
    • Swedish
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Ukrainian
    • Vietnamese

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