Books

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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Show what I’m reading now

Changes the Book app’s view to the Reading Now section (the main section).

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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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Turns to the next page in the Books app for a currently-open book.

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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.

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Turn on continuous scroll

Activates the Books setting that allows you to read endlessly without turning pages.

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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.

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20books

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Open%20my%20books

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Open my books” end tell

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