Amazon’s color screen Kindles are finally getting a system-wide dark mode

A person holds an Amazon Kindle Colorsoft with dark mode turned on.

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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