Read comics with Bubble Zoom on Google Play Books

To make reading comics easier, you can make speech bubbles bigger and expand your comic to fill the whole screen. Bubble Zoom is available for Marvel and DC collected volumes in English and some popular comics in Japanese.

Important: Bubble Zoom is not available on computer.

Watch this video to see how Bubble Zoom works.

Find out if a comic book has Bubble Zoom

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Play Books app .
2. Search for a comic.
3. Tap the comic.
4. Find the banner: 'Part of the Bubble Zoom tech preview' or the Bubble Zoom icon .

Turn Bubble Zoom on or off

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Play Books app .
2. Open a comic that uses Bubble Zoom.
3. Tap the centre of the page.
4. At the top, tap Display options Zoom and then turn Bubble Zoom on or off.

If you turn off Bubble Zoom, it will turn off for all the comics on that device.

Zoom in and move through speech bubbles

To move through speech bubbles, make sure that you're in full-screen mode.

• Move forwards: Swipe up tap the right side of the screen, or press the volume down button.
• Move backwards: Swipe down tap the left side of the screen, or press the volume up button.
• Make a text bubble bigger: Double-tap a speech bubble.

Stop using the volume button to move through speech bubbles

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Play Books app .
2. Tap Menu Settings Use volume key to turn pages.
3. Select 'Never, and don't zoom in on speech bubbles'.

Fix problems with Bubble Zoom

Step 1: Check that the comic uses Bubble Zoom

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the Google Play Books app .
2. Search for a comic.
3. Tap the comic to enter the detail page.
4. Find the banner: 'Part of the Bubble Zoom tech preview'.

If Bubble Zoom is available but isn't working, try the steps to fix book loading issues. If that doesn't work, go to step 2.

Step 2: Check whether Bubble Zoom is working

1. On your Android phone or tablet, go to a page with speech bubbles on it.
2. Tap the screen, swipe up or down, or press the volume key.
   • If a bubble gets bigger, the feature is working.
   • If it doesn't get bigger, go to step 3.

Step 3: Check if Bubble Zoom is on

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the comic that uses Bubble Zoom.
2. Tap the centre of the page.
3. Tap Display options turn Bubble Zoom on.

Step 4: Contact Google

1. On your Android phone or tablet, open the comic where Bubble Zoom isn't working.
2. If it’s not working on a specific page, go to that page.
3. Tap the centre of the page.
4. Tap More Feedback Send Feedback.
5. Describe your issue and tap Send .