Google Play Books & Audiobooks

Considering how many hacks work for Google, and how rich the company is, there is no excuse to NOT have a text-to-speech reader.

I just want to buy a book 😭 This is the weirdest request Google spitefully refuses to let me do and they give exactly zero elaboration, leaving me to assume they’re angry I got an Apple product after tiring of the “let whoever pays us make our OS as annoying and bloatware filled as they want” philosophy of Android that Google themselves did by choice. There’s a mention of buying on a website but I refuse to jump through hoops just because Google feels like being petty

Your help section spouts nonsense about using voice over to read the book aloud for me since you guys are to lazy to include a read aloud button by default. You don’t even need to use your own voices. Just default to my device default it’s all set up. I hate having to flip pages I just want it to read the books I paid for to me while I’m busy working. Instead I have to read literally anything else with much better reader apps but that’s the part that is making me mad all the money I spent on my good play books library is going to waste since it doesn’t work for what I need it for at all with my iPhone. This alone is enough for 0 star from me but sadly you have to pick at least 1

It seems after the latest update that it’s become unusable. It’s gone from great to agonizing on my iPad 6th gen. I’ve even reinstalled it to no avail.

Horrendous search functionality unable to refer back to pages by text search.

建议图书可以加入手写做笔记的功能，这样可以增加购买图书的想法，因为读书想要做笔记。谢谢。

I like that app you need to download now

This is a lame excuse for a working ereader application. Don’t offer on App Store if you will not develop decent user experience. Thnx

All of my purchased audio books have disappeared. I bought another one today and it is not showing up. I am so frustrated.

This app won’t let me use read aloud