Reading ebooks on Android used to be just okay.
Now it’s awesome.
Supports phones and tablets.
Sync bookmarks, notes, and reading position across devices/platforms.
Read books from Google’s servers, or download for offline access.
Customizable display options, including font size, brightness, line height, day/night/sepia mode.
Large store with wide selection of books for purchase or rent.
Upload your own ePUB/PDF books to personal library, sync across devices.
Get definitions, Wikipedia articles, and search results in-app.
Text-to-speech on some books (per publisher approval)
Bookmark pages, highlight text, and add notes.
Search within books for text.
It also syncs your bookmarks, notes, and annotations across devices.
This gives it an edge over standalone readers like Aldiko and Moon+.
On top of all of this, Play Books has some of the best built-in research tools.
Long-press an unknown word to highlight it and get a quick definition.
If it’s not an ePub or PDF, you’ll need to convert it.
Fortunately, it’s prettyeasy to change formats, and you could evenconvert books purchased from other stores.
Play Books more or less guarantees you’ll always be reading on a bright, light-emitting screen.
The Competition
The primary competition comes in the form of our previous pickAldiko, as well asMoon+.
Aldiko has some great features for organizing and sorting your library.
Moon+ similarly has some nice customization options, but where it really shines is in file format support.
And, of course, there are the other bookstores includingAmazon Kindle,Nook, andKobo.
Library selection varies between companies, though manually adding books is a difficult, if not impossible process.
