Google Play Books
Choose from over 4 million books on Google Play and take your favorites with you for reading offline.
What is Google Play Books?
Google Play Books is a Chrome extension, offering a vast collection of over 4 million books. With this, read anything, anywhere using any device, even without Internet connectivity. It enables font and layout customization, in-book searching, text highlighting, and note-making. It also facilitates automatic page position syncing across devices. Its digital cloud ensures unlimited storage for your books. In addition to providing access to a multitude of categories including NYT bestsellers and classics, it offers free books and preview pages.
Stats
Users:
N/A
Rating:
3.62
(4,996)
Creation date:
2017-02-08
Risk impact:
Low risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version:
2
Permissions:
Size:
46.37K
Stats date:
Chrome-Stats Rank
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154441
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Summary
It’s time to set your reading free. With Google Play Books for Chrome, you can use just about any device you own to read any book, anywhere.
Great Reading Experience
- Make your books available for reading even when you are not connected to the Internet
- Change font and layout, search within the book
- Highlight text, add margin notes and select words to find definition, to translate, or to search online
Discover Millions of Titles
- Over 4 million books in every imaginable category, from the New York Times ® bestsellers to favorite classics
- Millions of free books available instantly
- Free preview pages
- Unlimited storage of books in the digital cloud
Syncs With Your Google Play books library
- Find books at https://play.google.com/store/books and add them to 'MY BOOKS' to sync
User reviews
Doesn't display most of the books correctly; there's a lot of missing text and images.
No support for touch or pen! 😦
If you highlight a selection some words are skipped and remain unmarked.
There is no way of editing a selection once you've made it. Same with notes and highlights.
Highlights get the hand cursor, but they are not clickable.
There is no way to zoom, not with trackpad nor touch (using the trackpad to pinch-to-zoom you actually scroll the pages, using the touchscreen does nothing).
If you select a single word there is no way to highlight or add a note to that selection.
No dark theme
Safety
Risk impact
Google Play Books is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.
Risk likelihood
Google Play Books has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.
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