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Google Books for Chrome gets offline support, one less excuse for not reading the ‘classics’

So, you can actually read all those tomes you’ve picked up through Google Books offline in your smartphone and tablet, but what about to your laptop? Well, if for some reason you might have the will to power through Finnegans Wake for your browser (though, we aren’t really sure why you’d do this to yourself) we have now excellent news — the Google Books app for Chrome now caches your titles for local reading. To download a book, just hover over the duvet in library view and choose “make available offline” from the pop-up. Then, even if you cannot get your Chromebook connected, you can actually chill out and relax with a classic novel or seedy romance tale.

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