Amazon’s color Kindle lineup had been missing the budget Kindle models had for years: a system-wide dark mode. However, admitting its oversight, the company has finally released dark mode for both the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft.
Before this update, the only way people could comfortably use the Kindle models for nighttime reading was the Page Color toggle, which inverted colors within supported books. However, the moment you left the book and returned to the home screen, library, settings, or any other page, everything snapped back to bright white.
What can Colorsoft and Scribe users do with dark mode?
That inconsistency between the supported book and everything else is now gone. The system-wide dark mode applies to every page of the device, including the home screen, book library, the settings menu, and the Scribe workspace.
What’s even more interesting is that you can decide where you want to apply the dark mode. For instance, if you prefer notebooks in the regular bright mode, while keeping everything else dark, that can be achieved with the new update.
Just swipe down from the top of the screen and enable/disable dark mode in the Quick Actions section.
What’s the Smart Shapes update for Scribe users?
Along with system-wide dark mode for the Kindles, Scribe Colorsoft, and monochrome Kindle Scribe owners are getting a new feature called Smart Shapes.
It’s a notebook feature that adds essential pre-drawn shapes like lines, arrows, circles, triangles, and rectangles directly from the toolbar. For those who prefer drawing freehand, the hold-to-snap function converts rough sketches into clean shapes by simply holding the stylus at the end of the stroke.
The rollout is now live and should reach all compatible devices in a few weeks. The Kindle Colorsoft launched as Amazon’s most exciting e-reader in years, but shipping without system-wide dark mode felt like an oversight. However, the update fixes that for good.