Open Books library
Changes the Books app view to the Library tab to show all your Books, PDFs, Samples, and more.
Open my PDFs
Opens the PDFs section of the Books app to show files you’ve imported.
Extra Details
Link to Run Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20PDFs
Link to Open Shortcut
shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20PDFs
AppleScript code
tell application “Shortcuts Events”
run shortcut “Open my PDFs”
end tell
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Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Switch to page turning
Turns on the Books setting that disables continous scroll and lets you turn pages like you would in a physical book.
Show what I’m reading now
Changes the Book app’s view to the Reading Now section (the main section).
Show books I want to read
Opens the Books app to the “Want to Read” section that’s built up when you mark books as such.
Open my books
Opens the Books tab of the Books app so you can see all your non-PDF items only.
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Open my audiobooks
Opens the Books app to the Audiobooks tab to show items you’ve purchased.
Open Play TV
Opens the app Play for YouTube on an Apple TV of your choice so you can select videos you’ve saved for later to open in the YouTube app.
Make fun of me
Takes three lists of Shakespearean insults and combines them into one remark, making it appear as if Siri is making fun of you using old English slang.
I built this after being inspired by a similar website, wanting to see if I could recreate it in Shortcuts. Original material: http: or or www.pangloss.com or seidel or shake_rule.html
Show Regal value days
Opens the Regal cinemas Promotions page for Value Days to see prices and days for low-cost tickets at your nearby theaters.
Change voice for Siri
Opens the deep link into Setitngs > Siri and Search > Siri Voice to let you change between the America, Australian, British, Indian, Irish, or South African variety and Voices 1-5.
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