Search Books
Asks you to enter a query, then searches for the result in the Books app.
Apple Books shortcuts
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.
Open my books
Opens the Books tab of the Books app so you can see all your non-PDF items only.
Open my book samples
Opens the My Sample section of the Books app to show books that you’ve downloaded previews for.
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.
Open Book Store
Opens the Books app to the Book Store tab where you find and buy books.
Open Finished books
Opens the Books app to the Finished tab where you can see past books you’ve completed.
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Total shortcuts
20
Open Folder shortcut
Open a folder in Shortcuts
Opens a Shortcuts folder of your choosing; accepts the name of a folder as input as well.
Link to Open Folder with Shortcut
shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20a%20folder%20in%20Shortcuts&input=text&text=Apple%20Books
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Ask ChatGPT-4
Prompts you to enter a query, then asks ChatGPT your given message using GPT-4, the shows you the response after copying it to your clipboard for pasting elsewhere.
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