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

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 the Colorsoft and Scribe Colorsoft’s UI, you’ll be able to specify which sections use it. For instance, you can have dark mode turned on for the homescreen, your ebook library, and reading, while keeping the Scribe’s written notebooks in normal light mode.

In addition to the dark mode, the Scribe Colorsoft’s notebooks are getting Smart Shapes allowing you to add predefined shapes to your handwritten notes and sketches from the toolbar including lines, arrows, circles, triangles, and rectangles. If you prefer to draw them freehand, a new hold-to-snap feature will optionally convert them into precise lines, circles, triangles, or rectangles, keeping your notes looking neat.