# Ebook Reader

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Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.ebooks.ebookreader](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.ebooks.ebookreader)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.ebooks.ebookreader`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** eBooks.com Pty Limited
- **Category:** BOOKS\_AND\_REFERENCE
- **Downloads:** 11,541,621
- **Rating:** 3.96 / 5 (91,859 ratings)
- **Version:** 5.2.10
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-19
- **First published:** 2011-07-07
- **Publisher country:** AU
- **Size:** 29 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-20
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ebooks.ebookreader)
- **Website:** [http://www.ebooks.com/](http://www.ebooks.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://www.ebooks.com/information/privacy.asp](http://www.ebooks.com/information/privacy.asp)

## Description

eBooks.com's Ebook Reader is a free Chrome extension optimized for Android devices that allows you to read your favorite books anytime, anywhere. It supports the Epub3 format, user-created collections, and features easy navigation like tap or swipe page turning. The app remembers your last reading position, offers lockable landscape or portrait modes, and includes a night-reading mode that's easy on the eyes.

With Ebook Reader, you can search text within books, adjust font size conveniently, and sync your bookmarks, notes, highlights, and reading progress across all your Android and iOS devices through your eBooks.com account. It also supports 3rd-party book imports, provides immediate access to free classics, and allows you to shop for New York Times bestsellers, technical, professional, and academic books directly within the app. Plus, your online bookshelf is backed up, ensuring your library is accessible whenever you get a new device.

## Rankings

- #12,425 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_AD_ID`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_ADSERVICES_ATTRIBUTION`
- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.DOWNLOAD_WITHOUT_NOTIFICATION`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_DATA_SYNC`
- `android.permission.FOREGROUND_SERVICE_SPECIAL_USE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.POST_NOTIFICATIONS`
- `android.permission.WAKE_LOCK`
- `com.ebooks.ebookreader.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.google.android.c2dm.permission.RECEIVE`
- `com.google.android.finsky.permission.BIND_GET_INSTALL_REFERRER_SERVICE`
- `com.google.android.gms.permission.AD_ID`

## Review summary

Users consistently praise the app for being easy to use, reliable, offering a good book selection, cross-device access, and affordable prices. The main drawbacks are that the app can sometimes fail to work, especially with purchased or DRM-protected books, and DRM restrictions limit what content can be read. Overall, strong usability and library access are balanced by occasional functionality and DRM-related issues.

### Pros

- Easy to use, intuitive, and easy to navigate
- Reliable and responsive
- Cross-device access / syncing via account
- Large selection of books
- Affordable books

### Cons

- App sometimes does not work / cannot read purchased books
- DRM restrictions limit reading to DRM-protected content or purchased books

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