A Portable Library for Ebooks and Audiobooks
Kobo Books brings eBooks and audiobooks into one library built for readers who want to browse, choose, and return to stories from a phone or tablet. Search by author, title, topic, genre, or keyword, then organize the titles that fit your current reading list instead of treating every book as a separate download.
Saved titles can support reading or listening away from a connection, which makes the app useful for commutes, travel, and quiet stretches when Wi-Fi is unavailable. Curated collections and trending reads add an easy discovery path for people who know the kind of story they want but have not chosen a specific title.
Reading Settings That Fit Your Routine
The reading view is designed to adapt to personal habits rather than force one presentation. Readers can adjust text size and style, change brightness, use Night Mode, and choose portrait or landscape orientation for a more comfortable session on different screens. These options help long-form reading feel consistent on a compact mobile display.
Books can also support highlighting, notes, and in-book search, giving students, reference readers, and careful book-club members useful ways to return to important passages. Version 10.3.1.39831 adds a reading-brightness option that can follow the device level, making the display easier to align with the rest of the phone.
Audiobook Playback for Flexible Listening
Kobo Books includes an audiobook player for readers who prefer to listen while walking, commuting, or winding down at night. Playback controls make it possible to pause, move through a title, track progress, adjust narration speed, and set a sleep timer without losing the place in the story. Listeners can fit short sessions around errands without losing their place.
Audiobook samples help listeners decide what to try, and saved titles can be available for offline listening when prepared in advance. The same library can hold eBooks and audiobooks together, so users can change the way they follow a story without maintaining separate reading and listening apps.
Reading Across Devices and Daily Use
The Kobo experience works across the Android app, Kobo Web Reader, and compatible Kobo eReaders, giving readers a practical way to continue from the point they last reached. Progress synchronization is especially useful for people who read at home, listen during a commute, and pick up an eReader later. This arrangement keeps a reading routine visible as the day moves between locations.
Kobo Plus plans add a subscription-based route to a larger reading and listening catalog, while multilingual support covers English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Japanese. Together with offline titles, adjustable display controls, and searchable collections, these options suit both short daily sessions and longer reading routines.
