diff --git a/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerzooming.lua b/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerzooming.lua
index 245895bd4..886bfd84c 100644
--- a/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerzooming.lua
+++ b/frontend/apps/reader/modules/readerzooming.lua
@@ -200,7 +200,7 @@ function ReaderZooming:onZoom(direction)
     return true
 end
 
-function ReaderZooming:onDefineZoom(btn)
+function ReaderZooming:onDefineZoom(btn, when_applied_callback)
     local config = self.ui.document.configurable
     local settings = ({
         [7] = {right_to_left = false, zoom_bottom_to_top = false, zoom_direction_vertical = false},
@@ -281,9 +281,10 @@ function ReaderZooming:onDefineZoom(btn)
             btn == "columns" and settings.zoom_overlap_h or settings.zoom_overlap_v
         )
     end
-    if tonumber(btn) then
+    if when_applied_callback then
+        -- Provided when hide_on_apply, and ConfigDialog temporarily hidden:
+        -- show an InfoMessage with the values, and call when_applied_callback on dismiss
         UIManager:show(InfoMessage:new{
-            timeout = 2,
             text = T(_([[Zoom set to:
 
     mode: %1
@@ -298,6 +299,7 @@ function ReaderZooming:onDefineZoom(btn)
                 ("%.2f"):format(self:getNumberOf("rows", settings.zoom_overlap_v)),
                 settings.zoom_overlap_v,
                 ("%.2f"):format(self:getNumberOf("columns"))),
+            dismiss_callback = when_applied_callback,
         })
     end
 end
diff --git a/frontend/ui/data/koptoptions.lua b/frontend/ui/data/koptoptions.lua
index db626874e..17c0f8249 100644
--- a/frontend/ui/data/koptoptions.lua
+++ b/frontend/ui/data/koptoptions.lua
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ In 'semi-auto' and 'manual' modes, you may need to define areas once on an odd p
                 event = "DefineZoom",
                 args =   {0, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84},
                 labels = {0, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84},
+                hide_on_apply = true,
                 name_text_hold_callback = optionsutil.showValues,
                 help_text = _([[Set horizontal zoom overlap (between columns).]]),
             },
@@ -111,6 +112,7 @@ In 'semi-auto' and 'manual' modes, you may need to define areas once on an odd p
                 event = "DefineZoom",
                 args =   {0, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84},
                 labels = {0, 12, 24, 36, 48, 60, 72, 84},
+                hide_on_apply = true,
                 name_text_hold_callback = optionsutil.showValues,
                 help_text = _([[Set vertical zoom overlap (between lines).]]),
             },
@@ -156,6 +158,7 @@ In 'semi-auto' and 'manual' modes, you may need to define areas once on an odd p
                 end,
                 event = "DefineZoom",
                 args =   {1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, 5.0, 6.0, 7.0, 8.0},
+                hide_on_apply = true,
                 name_text_hold_callback = optionsutil.showValues,
                 help_text = _([[Set the number of columns or rows into which to split the page.]]),
             },
@@ -181,6 +184,7 @@ In 'semi-auto' and 'manual' modes, you may need to define areas once on an odd p
                 end,
                 event = "DefineZoom",
                 args = {0.7, 1.0, 1.5, 2.0, 3.0, 5.0, 10.0, 20.0},
+                hide_on_apply = true,
                 name_text_hold_callback = optionsutil.showValues,
             },
             {
@@ -222,6 +226,7 @@ In 'semi-auto' and 'manual' modes, you may need to define areas once on an odd p
                 default_value = 7,
                 event = "DefineZoom",
                 args = {7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0},
+                hide_on_apply = true,
                 name_text_hold_callback = optionsutil.showValues,
                 help_text = _([[Set how paging and swiping forward should move the view on the page:
 left to right or reverse, top to bottom or reverse.]]),