Amazon's Kindle Colorsoft Gets a Dark Mode (2026)

I'm a nighttime reader. I usually work successful the acheronian with my e-reader of prime successful its autochthonal acheronian mode (if you're unfamiliar, it's the mode that turns the inheritance achromatic and each substance and lines white, making it overmuch dimmer but inactive casual to read). That allows my hubby and adjacent my almost-4-year-old to snooze adjacent to maine portion I read, with nary beacon of airy blasting from my device.

It's nary astonishment that, arsenic specified a nighttime reader, the deficiency of acheronian mode connected the Kindle Colorsoft or Kindle Scribe Colorsoft was a large ailment for me. Yes, you tin crook the leafage colour achromatic connected books (but not connected imported documents, including AZW3, which is designed specifically for speechmaking connected Amazon's devices), but the paper bars and location pages would blast maine successful the eyes successful a acheronian country if I wanted to power what publication I was speechmaking oregon usage a paper feature. It was 1 of the galore features we recovered lacking successful the Kindle Colorsoft, but it's the 1 that keeps maine from utilizing it implicit different Kindle. I'd alternatively drawback my Kindle Paperwhite and cognize I won't beryllium blinded astatine 11:45 pm.

That each changes today. Amazon announced that acheronian mode is rolling retired to Colorsoft Kindle devices starting contiguous and continuing implicit the coming weeks. It'll besides see customization options, successful lawsuit you don't privation everything connected your Colorsoft Kindle to spell acheronian erstwhile you usage this mode. If acheronian mode has kept you from getting a Colorsoft, you tin instrumentality that disconnected your database of cons.

Into the Dark (Mode)

If you're already a Kindle Colorsoft owner, you tin commencement checking your instrumentality contiguous for updates, but they mightiness not look close away. If you don't privation to wait, you tin download the update present from Amazon, but you'll request to instal it connected a desktop machine and travel these instructions to manually update your Kindle.

The Colorsoft acheronian mode volition besides springiness you options. You tin take to darken immoderate screens portion leaving others connected the regular, brighter screen. This seems chiefly designed for the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, the integer notebook mentation of the colorful Kindle line, truthful you could take to permission your integer notebooks successful Light Mode portion having your location surface and books successful acheronian mode. But it'll enactment connected each Colorsoft devices (and truthful far, lone Colorsoft devices, but we'll spot if that changes implicit time). Amazon says you tin entree this by clicking connected acheronian mode successful the Quick Actions menu, and you'll beryllium capable to customize what gets acheronian mode from there.

Amazon besides confirmed that immoderate colour you've utilized connected the Colorsoft Kindle Scribe notebooks oregon colorful highlights you've done to annotate your ebook connected immoderate Colorsoft instrumentality volition inactive stay the aforesaid colour erstwhile the instrumentality switches to acheronian mode.

Amazon's Colorsoft Lineup

If you're acceptable to ain a Kindle Colorsoft present that acheronian mode has arrived, here's a speedy look astatine the lineup.