Google Play Books Adds a Host of New Features

Google Play Books has added some new features to its Android app, designed to enrich the online reading experience.

The app now includes word translation, highlighting, note-taking functionality, as well as pop-up info cards for definitions and geographical information. It also now features a sepia-toned display option, and lets users read Japanese books the way they're meant to be consumed -- turning pages from right to left and with text in a vertical, right-to-left layout.

The new additions will "help you better explore your books and understand what youre reading," Google Play product manager Xinxing Gu wrote on the official Android team blog introducing the features.

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