[Bug] Reading Mode to track page flip

kzssc · 2026-08-18T15:19:09+00:00

Version: 10.0 Mac

Currently in reading mode, the highlighted/currently reading section goes over the currently viewable area in the document.

Understanding that this might be intended, it'd be great if there could be a toggle such that the highlighted area persists on the viewable area on screen and that page flips/proceeds automatically.

Note that *outside of reading mode*, in normal viewing mode, reading does track page flip automatically.

(Thanks, yet again, for a fantastic release of Zotero!)

kzssc · 2026-08-19T13:21:36+00:00

"Note that *outside of reading mode*, in normal viewing mode, reading does track page flip automatically. " is false.

i might have triggered the play/pause or annotation mistakenly, which does bring me to the active sentence currently reading out loud.

kzssc · 2026-08-19T14:01:13+00:00

re. epub: page flip is *sometimes* tracked, other times not. PDF reader never flip page automatically.

AbeJellinek · 2026-08-21T16:19:00+00:00

The intended behavior is that Read Aloud turns pages / scrolls automatically, unless you turn the page manually, in which case it lets you have control until you interact with Read Aloud in some way (e.g., play or fast-forward).

There was a bug that prevented scrolling within Reading Mode (the simplified reading view, different from Read Aloud) from triggering the "you turn the page manually" behavior. A fix for that will be in the next release.

I may be misunderstanding, though. If you're asking for something different, please explain in a little more detail: list the exact steps you're performing, what you expect to happen, and what actually happens.

kzssc · 2026-08-21T16:45:39+00:00

I had misunderstood the intended behaviour then. I thought that zotero defaults on what's currently in the focus/viewable area rather than auto-scrolling. So:

"The intended behavior is that Read Aloud turns pages / scrolls automatically, unless you turn the page manually, in which case it lets you have control until you interact with Read Aloud in some way (e.g., play or fast-forward)." - is great!

- A tiny suggestion would be some sort of timeout feature during/after the manual interaction (e.g. scrolling/highlighting) during read aloud to re-focus on the currently-reading-aloud passage? (I love that the annotation box has a version of this, where it disappears after certain time of inactivity.)