Getting Started with Google Play Books

Given the fact that every online review I found rated this app to be the best eReader out there, I think it is pretty awful for being the best. - There is no way to choose the download location of the offline dictionary (58MB) to store it on my SD card instead of the phone. - I don't see a way to access/download dictionaries for other languages (what if I'm learning Spanish or French for example?) - There is no way to choose the download location of the ebooks so i could store them too on my SD card rather than my phone. - Basically, the app should keep its 20MB-or-so footprint on my phone and all extra data (books, dictionaries, notes) should be saved to my SD card if i wish to do so. - There is no way to point to a location on the phone (say on my SD card) that already contains more than a 100 ebooks and immediately make them available to my library, reproducing the folder hierarchy that is found at said location. - There is no way to point to a location on my google drive that also already contains a huge collection of ebooks and immediately make them available to my library, reproducing the folder hierarchy that is found at said location. - There is no way to select the path where Notes, highlights, and bookmarks are saved on google drive. - There is no way to create a folder hierarchy in my ebook library so i can easily find my ebooks based on the criteria i used to create my hierarchy. - The library does not show any information about the loaded ebook. It should show metadata such as path it was loaded from, original file name, date and timestamp of when it was loaded into my library, size footprint, etc. - There is no way to edit such metadata. Say, for example, I would want to change the way the author's name or book title shows up in my library. This would be particularly useful if a book is not sorted properly using one of the three options allowed by the app (title, author). - There is no way to see the total size of the library, number of books, and other useful library metadata. - The library allows you to load the same book twice (or multiple times). This is redundant and unnecessary. It takes up extra space for no reason and it makes it even harder to find books in the library and there is no way to know if the book I'm looking at is the copy that I already started reading or a superfluous copy. - The note/annotation scheme only allows for 4 colors. In my opinion, that is not enough. Note: I don't need 256 colors either, but 4 is way too little. Maybe 8 or 16 would be more reasonable. - There is no way to put in a list of URLs of ebook websites so that they can easily be searched from the app. - The reading progress bar is only visible in the "Read Now" view and not in the "My Library" view. Unfortunately, the "Read Now" view is limited to a small number of books. - If I add notes and highlights to a book, then remove it from my library after being done reading it, then load it back a few months later to review the notes/highlights I've made, there is no way to merge those highlights (which are saved in a separate document) with the pages of the newly loaded book. The only way to view those notes is out of context, which is not helpful. - After removing a download, the size of the mysterious data heap used by the application does not change (as can be seen in settings > apps). I deleted every downloaded book from my device in the hope of clearing up memory space in my phone but the size of the data heap was still over 100 MBs despite having deleted ALL downloaded books!

A disappointing, too short, for a non-informative booklet. A wasted effort, as the information provided, is easy to figure out by oneself, so I consider it a waste of time downloading... Was expecting to at least, find out more about, contribute, and get more info on its history and other details.

Why ask for credit card details if the book is free. And this problem is not only with this e-book. Any book you try to purchase it repeatedly asks for card details even if it's free. I didn't even wanted to give 1star for this