After all, Google Music was just a pre-cursor to All Access.You have all books to read and all audio books tooįind Audio Books and eBooks on this site. Maybe the quiet rollout means Google is keeping quiet about the service until they’re ready to reveal some cool extra feature. It’s nice to have, of course, but may only be useful to a niche group of e-book lovers. Right now this feature doesn’t seem like much. Hopefully it will roll out to everyone soon. This update hasn’t caught up to all Google accounts yet (we saw the Upload option on one of our accounts but not all three) and all the Help documentation isn’t even in the system yet. If the font is small, you have to zoom in and then move the page back and forth yourself to read.
The PDF file we tried synced as well, but there are no advanced PDF tools at hand, so the text won’ reflow.
Then hop over to your phone or tablet and refresh to see the new content. The DRM-free EPUB file we uploaded synced without issue and looks like a Google Play book. To add EPUB and PDF to Play Books you can upload from a computer or add files stored in Google Drive. We like that Google lets you sync the book and the data associated with it across devices. Files added to the Nook this way don’t sync to the cloud, that’s a more Amazon Kindle idea. The idea being to give customers a chance to put all of their e-books in one app or interface and cut down on having to hop around. Barnes & Noble long ago added a My Files section to the Nook tablets and the Nook app for outside EPUB files without DRM. But we don’t know anyone who would do that. This feature is likely for that segment of the population that buys non-DRM books from the few e-bookstores that sell them or directly from publishers like Baen or Tor that don’t put DRM on their books. What’s the point, then? EPUB files from major bookstores – Barnes & Noble, Sony, Kobo – all have DRM. We couldn’t even delete the book from the interface. If you upload one, it will stay stuck at the processing stage forever and won’t sync. The biggest is that e-books with DRM won’t work. Other than the 1,000 file cap there are other restrictions. You can add bookmarks, highlights, and note the apps will save and sync it all (including progress) across devices. Files uploaded to Play Books act just like native e-books. Play Books acts as a cloud locker for e-books and PDF documents, allows downloading to smartphones and tablets, but doesn’t give users a way to re-download to the desktop. The concept is similar to the way Google Music worked at launch.
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