Open Books library
Changes the Books app view to the Library tab to show all your Books, PDFs, Samples, and more.
Open Books search
Changes the Books app view to Search, showing Recently Viewed, trending genres for you, a section to Discover books, and Trending searches.
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Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Open Book Store
Opens the Books app to the Book Store tab where you find and buy books.
Open current book
Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.
Open Finished books
Opens the Books app to the Finished tab where you can see past books you’ve completed.
Search by ISBN
Scans a QR code, gets the text out, and performs a search on ISBNsearch.com.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20Books%20search
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20Books%20search
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open Books search”
end tell
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Gets the latest episode from your Transistor podcast and scrapes out the ID for the media URL and pastes it into the episode embed player.
Add link of the week
Searches for a note called “Links of the Week” and appends the shortcut input or clipboard text to the end in the Notes app.
See stories from Bay Area
Opens to the full “Local” area in the Apple News app. Create your own for your Local news section.
Toggle Reduce White Point
Switches the setting to Reduce White Point, lowering the overall screen brightness below normally-allowed levels.
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