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TL;DR Amazon announced late last year that a system-wide dark mode was in the works for Kindle Colorsoft models.
Today the company confirms that that dark mode rollout is getting started, and will continue over the next couple weeks.
In addition to dark mode, Kindle Colorsoft devices are also getting new Smart Shapes for your notes.
E-readers already deliver some of the most eye-friendly reading experiences you can find, with their reflective electrophoretic displays offering a much gentler alternative to the traditional screens on our phones and tablets. But there’s no reason a good thing can’t get even better, and last year Amazon teased that it was finally planning to correct one big oversight that existed across its Kindle Colorsoft lineup, with the addition of a proper dark mode. And now, it’s finally ready to arrive.
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Amazon already brought a dark mode to its family of monochrome Kindle e-readers a few years ago, but so far there hasn’t been a similar option for the color-screen Kindle Colorsoft, nor the new Colorsoft Scribe. The closest we had was Amazon’s Page Color mode, which let you invert the colors for supported titles, but there was no system-wide dark mode option available. Initially, Amazon told us to expect a proper dark mode sometime in 2026, and the company now confirms the rollout of that update starts today, and will continue across the next couple weeks.
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Sure enough, as Amazon shows off, we can now apply dark mode styling to not just books themselves, but also the whole Kindle UI. Critically, though, you’re not forced to use it the same way everywhere, and you can pick and choose which screens should have dark mode applied to them, in case you’re used to things like your notebooks only looking right in light mode.
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