Amazon’s Kindle Colorsoft Gets a Dark Mode (2026)
I’m a nighttime reader. I usually read in the dark with my e-reader of choice in its native dark mode (if you’re unfamiliar, it’s the mode that turns the background black and all text and lines white, making it much dimmer but still easy to read). That allows my husband and even my almost-4-year-old to snooze next to me while I read, with no beacon of light blasting from my device. It’s no surprise that, as such a nighttime reader, the lack of dark mode on the Kindle Colorsoft or Kindle Scribe Colorsoft was a big complaint for me. Yes, you can turn the page color black on books (but not on imported documents, including AZW3, which is designed specifically for reading on Amazon’s devices), but the menu bars and home pages would blast me in the eyes in a dark room if I wanted to switch what book I was reading or use a menu feature. It was one of the many features we found lacking in the Kindle Colorsoft, but it’s the one that keeps me from …
