Compared with paper books, we can read ebooks any where. Play ebooks also provide extra features like read aloud, Bubble Zoom for Comics, add notes and bookmarks, search contents or notes in the book, translate and etc which makes it more fun and easier to read books.
Read along by Human
Try the following free books which are read by human:
- The Chef Who Loved Potatoes
- The Not So Scaredy Cat
- The Tired Alien
- Ara the Star Engineer
- We’re Amazing, 1, 2, 3! (Sesame Street)
Read aloud in Android Device(including Chromebooks)
Read aloud are enabled for many books, you can check whether Read aloud is supported at the additional information section. Try these books:
- I Don’t Want to Eat Bugs: Free
- Children’s Classic Stories: $1.99 but discounted as $0.25.
Read comics with Bubble Zoom
For comic books with Bubble Zoom feature enabled, we can double tap a speech bar to enlarge it, use volume keys to turn pages and tap the edge to move between bubbles and turn page.
Check the comic book One Piece to experience it. Check Bubble Zoom on Google Play Books: Machine Learning for Comics for the demo.
Use tools to make children’s books easier to read
- Hear a word spoken out loud
- Find the definition of a word
- Listen to a book read out loud
- Example: https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Google_The_Not_So_Scaredy_Cat?id=_An5DwAAQBAJ
Price drop alerts
You can get price drop alerts about books in your samples or wishlist. You can opt-in to receive price drop notifications from the Play Books android app at Play Books Settings -> Notification. If you opt-in to Keep me up to date with news and offers from Google Play., you will also get emails whenever a price drops in your samples or wishlist.
Integrated with Google Assistant
- Read me a story
- Read me a story about Cinderella
- Read my books: Dracula.
- Hey Google, tell me a Quidditch story
Integrated with Google Maps’s Assistant Driving mode
We can also play my books in Google Maps’s Assistant Driving Mode.
Earn money on Google Opinion Rewards
We can earn rewards on Google Opinion Rewards by just answering some surveys once in while. The rewards can be used at Play store to buy movie, music or ebook, can be used at Stadia.
Free Audiobooks in Non-Fiction in Google Play
Free Audio Books in Google Play
- I Don’t Want to Eat Bugs
- The Chef Who Loved Potatoes
- The Tired Alien
- Sleeping Beauty
- Cinderella
- Snow White
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- The Princess and the Pea
- Beauty and the Beast
- Little Red Riding Hood
- The Grasshopper and the Ants
- Swan Lake
- The Golden Goose
- The Emperor’s Dream
- Father Anansi
- The Firefly Princess
- The Fox and the Crow
- The Cat’s Elopement
- The Rat and the Elephant
- The Old Man and the Figs
- The Tortoise and the Geese
- Kissa the Cat
- Twas the night before Christmas
- Hansel and Gretel
- The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
