anGadgets EditorsWithin the huge catalogue of applications that exist in the App Store and Google Play, we have reviewed all kinds of proposals, from those for watching series and movies on the mobile, to those for listening to the radio or simply listening to music. Today we are going to stop at another form of entertainment that we can carry out at any time and place: reading.
After having gone through some applications to listen to audiobooks on the phone or tablet, we are now going to compile a few proposals for to carry all those works in your pocket and be able to enjoy a good read anywhere.
Google Play Books and Apple Books
Let’s start, of course, with the Google and Apple reading applicationsThese are pre-installed on Android and iOS devices respectively. In both, it is possible to access a huge catalogue of books and audiobooks through a single payment.
In other words, you pay only once and you can read or listen to a work as many times as you want from any device where you have your iTunes or Google account set up. You can also buy one or more books without paying a monthly subscription, and access a sample to see if you like it before you acquire it. Apple Books is only available for iOS, but Google Play Books has apps on both platforms.
Google Play Books
- Developer: Google
- Price: Free
- Download it in: App Store
- Download it in: Google Play
- Category: Books / Books and reference works
Apple Books
- Developer: Apple
- Price: Free
- Download it in: App Store
- Category: Books
Kindle
The official Amazon application is the easiest way to turn your cell phone or tablet into a Kindle because all the books you buy on the e-commerce platform will appear directly on it. In addition, Whispersync synchronizes the titles between all your devices, so that you can start reading on one and continue on a different one at the same point where you left off.
It offers access to more than 1,500,000 books from the Kindle Store, including new releases, bestsellers and more than 1,400 free eBooks, such as “Don Quixote” or “The Gardener’s Dog”. There is an option to subscribe to Kindle Unlimited for 9.99 euros per month to access all of them for free.
Kindle
- Developer: Amazon Mobile LLC
- Download it in: App Store
- Download it in: Google Play
- Price: Free
- Category: Books / Books and reference works
StoryTel
After the 14-day free trial period, by means of a monthly subscription of 12.99 eurosIf you want to know more about the history of the city, you can access a huge library with thousands of books and audiobooks in Spanish, Latin Spanish and English.
Among the possibilities of Storytel, the downloading audiobooks for offline listeningThe new features include the ability to change the playback speed to make the narrator go faster or slower, and the option to add a timer that will cause the app to close after a certain time.
Storytel: Audiobooks and Ebooks
- Developer: Storytel Sweden AB
- Download it in: App Store
- Download it in: Google Play
- Price: Free
- Category: Books / Books and reference works
Kobo Books
It has more than five million titles to choose from, including eBooks, audiobooks, graphic novels and children’s books from around the world and in several languages. It allows search by author, title, subject or genreand has a Night Mode for reading before bed.
It also offers a selection of free books, personalized recommendations and a system for rating and reviewing the titles you’ve read. In addition, synchronizes reading between devicesSo you can start reading in one and continue reading where you left off in another.
Kobo Books
- Developer: Kobo
- Download it in: App Store
- Download it in: Google Play
- Price: Free
- Category: Books / Books and reference works
Wattpad
Wattpad connects to an international community of 70 million readers and writers from around the world, so that you can not only read original stories, but also write them for others to enjoy.
Wattpad Studios discovers talented untapped and unsigned writers on Wattpad and connects them to global media entertainment companies. In fact, this platform has produced stories like “The Kissing Booth” on Netflix, “Light as a Feather” on Hulu or the series “After” by Anna Todd, a New York Times best seller. And of course, you can read them all.
Wattpad
- Developer: Wattpad Corp.
- Download it in: App Store
- Download it in: Google Play
- Price: Free
- Category: Books / Books and reference works
The Total Book
This application offers us a streaming library with thousands of classical works in the public domain and contemporary works authorized for non-profit broadcasting. It is free of advertising, 100% free and has more than 50,000 books and audiobooks, as well as multiple dictionaries in different languages.
In addition to listening to the books narrated by natural and professional voicesIf you read the same book in different versions and languages, you can compare them page by page. It also includes thousands of images, comments, notes and music composed around the literary works.
Free books and audiobooks – The Total Book
- Developer: SYC S.A.
- Download it in: App Store
- Download it in: Google Play
- Price: Free
- Category: Books / Books and reference works
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