Google Play Books VS GoodReader

Google Play Books

Google Play Books lets you search, preview, and buy millions of books using Google Book Search.

GoodReader

With GoodReader on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad, you can read virtually anything, anywhere.

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2018-10-10

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Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Google Play Books and GoodReader)

GoodReader

eBook Reader

91 91%

eBook Reader

9% 9

PDF Editor

0 0%

PDF Editor

100% 100

Ebooks

100 100%

Ebooks

0% 0

eBook Manager

100 100%

eBook Manager

0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Google Play Books seems to be a lot more popular than GoodReader. While we know about 106 links to Google Play Books, we've tracked only 4 mentions of GoodReader. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Google Play Books mentions (106)

Tell HN: Correct Result for "Google Books" in Bing but Not in Google
Searching for "google books" in google leads to https://books.google.com/ which no longer allows you to read any of your books. https://play.google.com/books is the site to read your purchased books now. Google search does not show https://play.google.com/books in its results at all. Thought it was some weird personalization quirk, but seems others have had the same issue:... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago
Engineer Bob Novak talks about UFO propulsion and anti-gravity in a 1963 recording
Please use google https://google.com , https://groups.google.com , news.google.com/newspapers, books.google.com, scholar.google.com , https://archive.org https://yandex.com (the only image reverse search which actually works, google's got broken). Source: 5 months ago
Google Only Giving Book Results After Update
I have no idea why, but ever since this new update, Chrome has become completely unusable. Every single search I make only retrieves books.google.com links. Nothing near relevant to what I want. I am not sure how to fix this issue. All help is greatly appreciated! Source: 6 months ago
The Battle over Books3 Could Change AI Forever
Like these guys? https://books.google.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
The Curious Case of Jeff Nadu
Now I think the “Jeff reads Wikipedia” criticism is a tad bit too far, but the problem of his reliance on books (that we should definitely not read) and some surface-level sources manifests itself perfectly in that video. Ralph Natale made an ass out of himself by publishing that book. It contains untrue stories that take away from his credibility and “mob resume”, and for some bizarre reason, didn’t include... Source: 8 months ago

GoodReader mentions (4)

Anyone made the jump from books to PDFs? And how did it go?
GoodReader allows you to open multiple PDFs and switch between them. Source: about 1 year ago
Chuck's Guide to the AH-64D Apache
Goodreader pdf reader app (iOS) has a mobile view feature that shows any pdf in a more mobile friendly way (strips out text etc to be scrollable). There might be others that do this. https://goodreader.com/. Source: over 1 year ago
Decisions, decisions? (Advice wanted)
Sure. Just don't read goodreader.com, they just tell lies to get clicks, we hate them lol. Source: almost 2 years ago
Are all HOM pens the same?
I have the A5X. I've always ordered direct from Ratta so I cannot speak to goodreader.com 's service, but the HOM pen for the A5 and A6 series is the same as the one for the X series (unless some knows otherwise). Source: over 2 years ago