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Books

Search Books

Asks you to enter a query, then searches for the result in the Books app.

Actions

Notification, Scripting

Ask for Input

Prompts the user to enter a piece of information.

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Clean up book quote

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

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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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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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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 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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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Search%20Books

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Search%20Books

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Search Books” end tell

Membership

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Opens Fandango to the section with movies available to go see now in theaters.

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Record as AIFF

Records normal quality audio, starting or stopping with your tap, then encoding the recorded audio to AIFF before saving to to a folder of your choice.

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