Books

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.

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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 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 PDFs

Opens the PDFs section of the Books app to show files you’ve imported.

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Open Finished books

Opens the Books app to the Finished tab where you can see past books you’ve completed.

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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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Search by ISBN

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

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Extra Details

Link to Run Shortcut

shortcuts://run-shortcut?name=Switch%20to%20page%20turning

Link to Open Shortcut

shortcuts://open-shortcut?name=Switch%20to%20page%20turning

AppleScript code

tell application “Shortcuts Events” run shortcut “Switch to page turning” end tell

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