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Originally Posted by oj829
Unless the software has changed since I ran away screaming from it, Google's book-reading app for Android allowed you to cache an entire purchased book to your local device, but obviously preferred to only let you have a little bit of it at a time, downloading bits of the book as needed as you made your way through, or fetching a chapter if you jumped ahead and selected an entirely different portion of the book.
I hated it because the instructions published for cacheing the entire book to the device (for reading without WiFi, HELLO?) repeatedly ran counter to my experience. The actions I took to finish downloading a partially loaded book (there was a little "pin icon"/blue pie chart next to each book in the library) always resulted in the exact opposite effect: it purged the book's local content entirely, and I'd have to go reload over WiFi if I so much as wanted page 1.
Yeah, there was a user==idiot problem in that chain, but even if I had mastered the Google Books magic, it was a very unpleasant experience. I don't know what GB does today. Fortunately, all the titles were available to me as Adobe ePUB downloads from the retail partner/indie bookstore website, and they've been in my Calibre library since forever now.
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I don't use the Google Books app frequently, but it works correctly in my experience. You can also download your Google Books from the Google Play website as Adobe DRM epubs (and in some cases Adobe DRM PDF's).