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Google Books App Now Supports Offline Reading in Chrome

December 21st, 2011 · Chrome, Google Books, software news

Google Books was quietly updated yesterday with one key feature that most other reading apps had: an offline reading mode. It’s only available in Chrome, and it doesn’t support PDF yet, but this is still a useful addition to the app.

This might seem like a relatively minor feature, but there aren’t all that many reading apps available for Chrome, and the Kindle Cloud Reader, Google Books’ biggest competitor, already has an offline mode.

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