⏯️📖 Media Buttons for Kindle Assistive Reader

by Trapier Marshall

Version 2 (January 18, 2025)

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Use media buttons with Kindle Assistive reader[1] :

- Play/Pause: the obvious
- Previous: previous page
- Next: next page

Note: Kindle assistive reader is not enabled by default. Use Kindle menu [Aa -> More -> Assistive reader], or see the reference below for details on how to enable.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=TqLHvK6eo6O7DJVQoZ


KNOWN ISSUES
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- Display power manager attempts to prevent sensor rotation, which doesn't work yet because I didn't read the documentation on the orientation set block. Fix in progeess.
- There's no way for Automate to tell if the reader is currently reading, so we make the initial assumption that it isn't. If you started it manually, you'll need to click twice to pause it.
- Only works when the Kindle reader app is in the foreground and there is no other media player active (reader won't read in the background anyways).
- Won't work on books where the publisher has disabled Assistive Reader.

CHANGELOG
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v2
- Turn off display while reading flow start