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Google Play Books VS KOReader

Compare Google Play Books VS KOReader and see what are their differences

Google Play Books logo Google Play Books

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

KOReader logo KOReader

An ebook reader application supporting PDF, DjVu, EPUB, FB2 and many more formats, running on...
  • Google Play Books Landing page
    Landing page //
    2018-10-10
  • KOReader Landing page
    Landing page //
    2022-03-18

Google Play Books

Categories
  • eBook Reader
  • Ebooks
  • eBook Manager
  • eBook Converter
Website books.google.com
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KOReader

Categories
  • eBook Reader
  • Ebooks
  • eBook Manager
  • Tool
Website koreader.rocks
Details $

Google Play Books videos

Google Play Books Review | Is Publishing on Google Play Worth It?

More videos:

  • Review - Google Play Books for Android Review
  • Review - Pros and Cons of Google Play Books

KOReader videos

Kobo Aura One KOReader PDF Review

More videos:

  • Review - Kobo Aura ONE PDF reader vs. KOReader reflow

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Google Play Books and KOReader)
eBook Reader
67 67%
33% 33
Ebooks
71 71%
29% 29
eBook Manager
64 64%
36% 36
Digital Publishing
100 100%
0% 0

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Social recommendations and mentions

Google Play Books might be a bit more popular than KOReader. We know about 106 links to it since March 2021 and only 96 links to KOReader. 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: 5 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
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KOReader mentions (96)

  • Conversion from epub to kepub, and related Calibre use
    I only read kepub files on my Kobo Clara 2E (kobo stock). I use KOReader to read PDF, CBZ (comic files) and epub. Source: 5 months ago
  • First E-reader. I am thinking of buying Kobo Libra 2?
    You can easily modify it (like adding KOReader). Source: 5 months ago
  • Calibre – New in Calibre 7.0
    It doesn't try to solve the same use cases that Calibre does, but I built an open source (EPUB only) manager / reader / statistics tracker called AnthoLume [0]. It mostly stemmed from me reading in KOReader [1] on my Kindle, and not having the ability to sync the progress to my iPhone / iPad. It's got metadata matching, support for multiple users, and statistics tracking which allows me to have a "Leaderboard"... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
  • Show HN: News2reader – Readable articles from HN and Pocket on your e-reader
    Hi! I recently became the owner of an e-reader, and wanted an easy way to get web articles from Hacker News and my bookmarks onto the device, on-demand, for easy reading. I'm using KOReader (https://koreader.rocks/) on my device, and like lots of e-book readers it allows browsing online catalogs of books (e.g. From sources like Project Gutenberg) using the OPDS protocol. News2reader is a self-hosted Node... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
  • Is the pocketboom era the right choice for me ?
    No I don't have any special lag. But I also don't use the default reading app, I use Koreader. I think the normal reading app also doesn't have much lag. Most modern eReaders have much less than 5s lag. Source: 10 months ago
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What are some alternatives?

When comparing Google Play Books and KOReader, you can also consider the following products

Amazon Kindle - Amazon Kindle software lets you read ebooks on your Kindle, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, BlackBerry, and...

calibre - Ebook manager, viewer & converter

FBReader - FBReader is an e-book reader for various platforms. Features:

Librera Reader - Librera Reader for Android

Cool Reader - Fast and small cross-platform eBook reader for desktops and handheld devices

ReadEra - Read book files in EPUB, PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, TXT, DJVU, FB2, MOBI and CHM formats.