Google Play Books & Audiobooks Reviews – Page 5
4/5 rating based on 379 reviews. Read all reviews for Google Play Books & Audiobooks for iPhone.
Google Play Books & Audiobooks is free iOS app published by Google LLC
Buggy implementation of a good idea
Vaebnkehn
I like the app in theory: Syncing notes automatically to Google Docs is awesome, a really killer feature. And the ability to upload and sync hundreds of epubs between devices for free is great. The problem is that the app is simply too buggy to be usable. Lots of rendering problems. Images and sometimes whole pages just won't display. Memory leaks cause the app to use hundreds and hundreds of MBs while constantly losing my downloaded books. You'd think displaying some HTML in an app would be easier for Google.
Highlighting won’t stick
NY-NL
I’ve tried deleting and re-downloading both books and the app. Syncing is enabled, and yet when I highlight something, it often won’t become visibly highlighted, or the highlight will disappear after I move to another page and come back.
Needs one more feature
Mavin Stemsy
Please support vertical scrolling in both portrait and landscape modes.
The Bane of My Existence
KatyMajor
Let me start by saying that this is easily the worst reading app I’ve ever used. I’m amazed at its inability to perform even basic functions. It doesn’t recognize my pressing and dragging to highlight, so anything I’m reading as research takes 2-3 times as long. It randomly freezes and crashes, and pages take long seconds to turn. I’ve rage quit countless times and feel like a total idiot for buying 3 Google Books having not tried the apps. This app has now become the bane of my existence. Reading has become a giant source of frustration. Please do not make this mistake and buy their books if you rely heavily on reading apps!!! I honestly never write reviews but this product is so bad I had to say something.
DONT PICK this if Other Option Exists
LydLydLyd
Been using this to read a bestseller technical book for the past 3 months. I've observed the following issues so far: 1. Highlight colors mismatch: I use both web browser version and iOS to read for convenience. When I highlight using blue or red in web browser, the highlights are displayed as green or yellow in iOS app. This is really annoying because I highlight a different category of things in green/yellow. This mixes them up. This is a really small but obvious and disturbing friction for users. 2. Images disappear: I paid $33 for the ebook, the same price as its paper copy. This I'm expecting the same content. However, certain images are not available in iOS app. 3. Highlight "wiggles": countless times when I highlighted, either a word or a sentence, the highlight would wiggle. For example, if a word appears in both the subtitle and the paragraph, when I highlight the one in the paragraph, the highlight would show up on the subtitle. When I highlight a sentence, the highlight will be displayed off by several words or even characters. 4. Highlight disappears: when the highlights don't wiggle, they would sometimes disappear. They'll still show up in the list of notes, but they stay invisible on the page. They GHOST you. 5. My thumbs are too tired to type more but I'm sure I observed more... I rarely rate apps, let alone writing a review this long, but 4.6/5 is beyond inconceivable.
Wishlist missing!!!
JP1075
I like the app for my books, but on the website, my wishlist has suddenly disappeared! My wishlist shows up in the app, but on the google website it’s gone. Explanation please!
What does it do with disk space?
Eisenspiel
It’s a nice convenient app, I can upload a book from PC and continue reading it on iPad, but why does it consumes so much space for books? When I start to read a book that weights less then 2 MB, this app downloads 800 MB! 800 MB OF WHAT?
Inaccessible to visually impaired
Sugakane_01
I can’t use the read aloud feature like I can on my Android phone and I can’t figure out how to make it auto scroll like Kindle does. To leave visually impaired users out is a huge, inexcusable and intentional oversight. Android managed to get it right but Apple can’t?