Books

Book Mode

Opens the Books app, then prompts you to confirm setting orientation lock so the screen doesn’t rotate. When run from Mac, opens the app in fullscreen.

Actions

Control Flow, Scripting

Tests if a condition is true, and if so, runs the actions inside. Otherwise, the actions under “Otherwise” are run.

Apps, Scripting

Open App

Opens the specified app.

Device, Scripting

Set Appearance

Changes system appearance (between Light/Dark).

Notification, Scripting

Show Alert

Displays an alert with a title, a message, and two buttons. If the user selects the OK button, the shortcut continues. The cancel button stops the shortcut.

Device, Scripting

Set Focus

Turns Do Not Disturb on or off.

Device, Scripting

Set Brightness

Sets the device brightness.

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Open current book

Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.

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Go back a page

Goes back one page in the currently-open book in the Books app.

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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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Open my book samples

Opens the My Sample section of the Books app to show books that you’ve downloaded previews for.

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Search by ISBN

Scans a QR code, gets the text out, and performs a search on ISBNsearch.com.

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Clean up book quote

Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Book%20Mode

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Book%20Mode

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Book Mode” end tell

Membership

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