Open my audiobooks
Opens the Books app to the Audiobooks tab to show items you’ve purchased.
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Open Audiobook Store
Opens the Books app to the Audiobook Store section where you can find and buy new audiobooks.
Search Books
Asks you to enter a query, then searches for the result in the Books app.
Open current book
Shows the most recently-active book you’ve been reading and opens it.
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.
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.
Turn on continuous scroll
Activates the Books setting that allows you to read endlessly without turning pages.
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.
Change Books Theme
Presents the various Themes in Books to choose from, then applies the setting of your choice.
Search by ISBN
Scans a QR code, gets the text out, and performs a search on ISBNsearch.com.
Clean up book quote
Takes highlighted text shared from Books and scrapes out the extra metadata.
Open a book from my library
Opens a specific book from your library, prompting you to pick which book.
Open Books library
Changes the Books app view to the Library tab to show all your Books, PDFs, Samples, and more.
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Spell check
Corrects the spelling of the text shared as input or from your clipboard, then presents it a prompt to confirm before copying.
Search Google
Asks you to give a search query, then passes it to the Google app to show results.
Encode text for a URL
Asks you to enter text, then lets you encode or decode it to work properly in URLs.
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