[Enhancement]: Keep screen on when reading a ebook about audiobookshelf-app HOT 7 OPEN

This might be better handled by adjusting the screen timeout on the device. I could see adding this feature causing more unexpected permission related issues. What is your screen timeout currently set at? I keep mine at 5 minutes.

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1 minute on my phone and 5 minutes on my iPad. I don’t really want to just adjust the timeout device wide because in every other situation those are the timeouts I want.

I’m not sure about how permissions work, but wouldn’t the app just ask for whatever permission it needs when a user toggles setting? I know other apps are able to prevent screen locking while they’re open.

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It looks like on android at least no permission is required to keep the screen on. I’m not sure about iOS.

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I was going to raise the same issue - in any other reader I've used the screen timeout is disabled (it's often a preference flag) - would like to see the same here. Having to remember to push the screen halfway through a page is annoying.

Like @samkottler I don't wish to manually adjust my system systems each time - that is not effortless UX

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@citizenxnz Can you share some mobile apps that have this setting so I can check them out?
The Kindle app on Android doesn't have this setting as far as I can find

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The Libby app on android doesn’t allow it to be configured, but does keep the screen on while in the ebook reader.

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I'm not an android developer, but hopefully some of these links will help

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3723634/how-do-i-prevent-an-android-device-from-going-to-sleep-programmatically
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/WakeLock
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Wake_Lock_API
• https://developer.chrome.com/docs/capabilities/web-apis/wake-lock
• https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/blob/f1b53483da50ca73e16314998c501d8707f54ecb/frontend/components/Domain/Recipe/RecipePage/RecipePage.vue#L197-L229 -> mealie is a webapp and does it automatically when a recipe is opened (it also doesn't require configuration - it just happens automatically which is nice)
• https://github.com/mealie-recipes/mealie/pull/1006/files ^ pull request from the above change
• https://vueuse.org/core/useWakeLock/

I've also noticed that Moon+ Reader Pro automatically keeps the screen awake when I read ebooks without the need to change any settings which would be a nice UX to see on the Audiobookshelf app. IMO ABS app should automatically enable this for ebooks, but I don't think audiobooks would benefit from this.

Perhaps the change needs to be done somewhere in components/readers or in whatever page that opens the reader?

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