While digital comics have been gaining traction the past years, there are still who are not convinced that reading it on your mobile device is almost the same as reading an actual comic book or graphic novel. Google Play Books introduced the vertical scrolling experience last year plus other tools to make it easier to both find and actually read those comics. And now at the ongoing San Diego Comic Con 2016, they have announced a new feature that will make it even easier and it’s called Bubble Zoom.

Bubble Zoom comes with the updated Google Play Books app for both the smartphone and tablet. This is a result of Google’s machine learning capabilities applied to digital comics. It uses the same tech that recognizes objects in your photographs and so it has been trained to identify the speech bubbles in a digital comic. It will then expand each speech bubble one tap at a time so that you won’t lose anything in the frame, which is what usually happens when you previously zoomed on those bubbles. This is also more useful for when you’re reading it one-handed in case you’re using your smartphone to read those comics.

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For the initial rollout of the Bubble Zoom feature on Google Play Books, it will be available on all Marvel and DC collected volumes that are available on the app. As an added bonus, all the comics from the two comics giants will be at 50% off if you apply the code SDCC2016 by July 24, 2016 when you buy any of the titles from Google Play Books.

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If you already have the app installed on your mobile device, update it to the latest version. The update also adds a badge series for when there is new content available, plus stability and performance enhancements as well. If you want to try reading comics on your smartphones and tablets, then download Google Play Books for free from the Google Play Store.

SOURCE: Google

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