Along with the bizarre yellow band of sunshine on the Kindle Colorsoft’s display, there’s one other display-related difficulty that’s going to disgruntle some customers.
Because it seems, the Kindle Colorsoft lacks the Darkish Mode function that’s obtainable on different Kindles, together with the fundamental mannequin that sells for a fraction of the value.
Earlier than getting too riled up, there may be the choice to invert the textual content for a black background with white textual content whereas studying on the Kindle Colorsoft, but it surely’s not the identical as Darkish Mode on different Kindles as a result of it doesn’t invert the interface or the menus.
The true Darkish Mode setting is lacking from the accessibility menu and it’s not obtainable from the short settings menu like it’s on different Kindles.
As a substitute, there’s a “Web page Coloration” choice to invert the textual content whereas studying, and it solely seems inside a e-book; the setting disappears while you’re on the House display or within the Library view, and when viewing the settings menu or doing issues like procuring the Kindle retailer or utilizing the online browser.
On the Kindle Paperwhite, the whole lot will get inverted when utilizing Darkish Mode, the menus, the homescreen, the library, even the Kindle retailer (the whole lot besides the online browser).
On the Kindle Colorsoft, solely pages inside books get inverted. The dictionary popup can be inverted with white textual content on a black background (however not while you open the total dictionary entry), and the whole lot else stays in gentle mode. Even when you open the onscreen keyboard whereas studying it doesn’t get inverted. The identical goes for the in-book settings menu.
The issue with that’s when studying at night time the white background for the interface and menus is rather a lot brighter than when utilizing inverted mode. It may possibly pressure your eyes when going from one to the subsequent when the display is out of the blue rather a lot brighter with the white backgrounds.
I don’t perceive why Amazon selected to do it this fashion. There’s even a notice on the product web page for the Kindle Colorsoft that claims:
We Need You To Know
Darkish Mode is presently not obtainable on this machine. Prospects can allow an identical studying expertise inside thousands and thousands of books utilizing the Web page Coloration function, which, like Darkish Mode, inverts the e-book web page coloration to black and the e-book textual content coloration to white. To allow the function in eligible books, open your e-book, entry the Fast Actions menu, and toggle the Web page Coloration to black.
It makes you surprise in the event that they plan on including full Darkish Mode help in some unspecified time in the future sooner or later. The truth that they used the phrase “presently” appears to counsel that, however they don’t particularly say they’re planning so as to add it with a software program replace like they did when including new options to the Kindle Scribe.
