Amazon Kindle Colorsoft and Scribe Colorsoft get a long overdue lighting update
The colour Kindles get system-wide light and dark modes that enable users to customise the different menus and content
Amazon has announced a software update for the Kindle Colorsoft and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft e-readers, which introduces a system-wide dark mode, plus the ability to customise different menus with light and dark settings.
Users will be able to choose whether the different surfaces, like Home, Library and Settings display light or dark modes depending on the circumstances. Furthermore, readers can switch the background of the reading content itself, including books and PDF. On the Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, which is designed for annotation and note-making with a bundled-in stylus pen.
“On Kindle Scribe Colorsoft, Notebooks can be controlled separately, so customers can choose a different page theme for Notebooks than for books and PDFs,” Amazon says in a media release.
“Customers can also choose to have their system theme be different from their page theme—for example, using Dark Mode for Home, Library, and Settings, while keeping notebooks in Light Mode—to create the visual experience that works best for them.”
It’s about time Amazon got around to adding this, given other devices in the stable have long offered the functionality. To access the new settings, when available in the coming weeks, users can go to Quick Actions (swipe down from the top of the screen) > Dark Mode.
Furthermore, Amazon is dropping more word about the recently released Kindle Scribe notebooks feature that “enables customers to add structured lines, arrows, circles, triangles and rectangles directly from the toolbar, making it faster and easier to create clean, polished notes. With hold-to-snap customers can draw freehand and automatically convert strokes into precise lines, circles, triangles, or rectangles, combining the flexibility of handwriting with the neatness of structured tools.”
Chris Smith
