Why it's worth it to move to Google play and books.

S anyone keeping track with my blog will know I just finished reading Peter Pan. I did this using Google play - Books. The obvious reason great thing and draw back of reading digital books it battery. However, I'm plugged in most of the time so it wasn't a big issue for me. Your situation might be different. In my line offend a lot of time on the road. It was great for me when my partner was driving to be able to pull out my phone and instead of opening of the drama of Facebook, I opened up a "page" on my phone with the Play Books app.

The app is rather nice. You can read online or save books to your device. All your Play books are available and you can easily switch to the Play store from the menu.

In the book you get a variety of viewing options. Day (white page, black ink), night (black page, white text), and sepia. I personally use sepia. I have a strong feeling it has to do with looking cooler while taking screen caps. Looking impressive with my fedora. The different colors make my fair trade, organic, mochafrapachino more delicious.

JK, the day and night versions are too sharp a contrast and it hurts my eyes after reading for more than a half hour. You can easily increase and decrease line spacing and font size in the mobile app. Good if you have a smaller screen or your vision isn't quite 20/20.

Now, Being the Google fan boy I am I of course want to say Google is better than Kindle and Nook... I honestly haven't played with them enough

to know how good they are in comparison. I do know however that Google is just going to gain traction. At the moment they have play movies, TV, music, books, and newsstand (magazines and new papers) all in the Play world. A decent chunk of the Android ecosystem. I can only hope that sooner rather then later we will have a stream all you can take service from Google. Every show, movie, book, and song you could ever want to see, read, or hear.

Today is sadly not that day. So I would strongly suggest anyone who hasn't tried reading on Play books to do it! it has a library of literally hundreds of free classic books. It is starting to gain momentum in the Textbook area too. 

Again, I am a Google fan boy. I accept and embrace that. I love play books. I also enjoy real books. So if you haven't tried it I would greatly suggest it. Or keep with a good old paper book. You just can't beat that battery life.