Google Play Books is a service for Android devices that provides access to a wide variety of electronic and audio books. The library includes fiction and science books, comics, textbooks, etc.
The interface is very reader-friendly. There are day and night reading modes with a warm color filter. It is possible to read in sepia mode. Pages are leafed through by pressing the volume buttons. You can adjust the font, line spacing, alignment, background color. Provides for adding notes, text highlighting in color. To read books does not require an Internet connection.
While reading the user can use dictionaries and Wikipedia, look up geographical information, find the text fragments you want. Options for comfortable listening to audiobooks: search for a chapter by title, the "smart" pause. Books can be shared with family members, creating a family library.
Features of Google Play Books
- large selection of books in the catalogs;
- preview function;
- the ability to download files to the library;
- 3D page turning effects;
- synchronization between different devices with the ability to start reading on one device and continue on another;
- ability to accelerate the playback of audiobooks by 3 times and slow them down by 2 times;
- speech synthesis function;
- ability to make bookmarks;
- russified interface;
- does not require a large number of resources of the device;
- easy and convenient installation.
Disadvantages of the program
- there is no filtering of books by topic;
- lack of scrolling from top to bottom of the entire chapter;
- Sometimes there are problems when opening books.
