Google Play Books is now a lot better for reading nonfiction titles like textbooks

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The company is looking to improve that experience with a new version of its Google Play Books app for Android — Google says its he biggest update the app has received in a long time, but it's all built around one deceptively simple feature. It's called "skim" mode, and you'll be seeing it a lot. When you tap the center of the screen while reading, the page zooms out to allow you to easily slide between pages in the book — in practice, it looks identical to iOS 8's multitasking view, for example. It's also reminiscent of the "scrubber" that is found in many digital magazines, giving you an easy way to slide through the pages of a book.

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