Amazon’s color screen Kindles are finally getting a system-wide dark mode
Most modern Kindle devices with a black and white E Ink screen offer an alternate inverted dark mode with white text against a black background across their entire user interface. Today Amazon has announced the same feature is coming to the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft that instead f...
By Andrew LiszewskiApril 28, 2026142 views
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Dark mode will soon be available for all parts of the Kindle Colorsoft’s UI. | Image: Amazon
Most modern Kindle devices with a black and white E Ink screen offer an alternate inverted dark mode with white text against a black background across their entire user interface. Today Amazon has announced the same feature is coming to the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft that instead feature color E Ink screens, which could previously only invert the pages of ebooks. The software update introducing the system-wide dark mode to Colorsoft devices "will be rolling out to readers worldwide" in the coming weeks, and available for download through Amazon's website.
While dark mode will be available system-wide for every section of t …
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