I don’t know about you, but I use my Kindle as much as I use my computer and at all times throughout the day including evenings. So having the ability to adjust my Kindle’s screen settings and the apps that it’s running to suit my surrounding environment enables me to be more productive in varying levels of environmental brightness.
Unlike other web browsers, the Kindle’s web browser “Silk” allows the user to switch seamlessly from a lighter themed user interface to a darker themed user interface while browsing the web. Which, well into the 21st century should be the norm across PC’s and mobile devices. Whether you are simply browsing the web in bed, watching a late night movie on Netflix or Amazon Prime Video, or typing up a blog post on the massive 10.1″ Kindle Fire HD 10 1080p display in a low light environment, having the option to switch between a dark theme and light theme on demand in Silk provides for a much better user experience.
Unlike PC users, Kindle users use “Silk” to browse the web on their Kindle devices. Silk is the mobile app designed to be the default web browser for the Kindle lineup and a worthy rival to iOS and Google’s Android enabled web browsers. If I were given an option to choose a default web browser for my Kindle and had to choose between Silk, another mobile web browser, or one of the other major players such as Internet Explorer, Edge, Mozilla’s FireFox, and Google’s Chrome I would still choose a web browser other than Silk. Even if Silk isn’t the most efficient web browser out there, the app works and it gets the job done. Silk just doesn’t have all the nifty bells and whistles that some of the other web browsers have. That isn’t necessarily a negative for Silk; however, as many of the other web browsers available have been around for a very long time. Silk is still in it’s infancy in terms of advanced features; however, with Amazon at the helm during this rise of tech Silk and the era of tablet PC’s appears to have a very bright future.
If you aren’t too familiar with how to adjust your Kindle’s settings, the techs at Amazon have made it extremely easy to enable the Dark Theme in Silk. This is how you do it…
- Power on your Kindle.
- Launch the Silk web browser.
- Open the settings menu via the vertical ellipsis (three vertical dots) near the top right of the screen (located on the right side of the url bar) or the hamburger menu (three horizontal lines) near the top left of the screen (located on the left side of the url bar).
- Select “Use Dark Theme” next to the little crescent moon icon.
That’s it!
Now all of the tabs you currently have opened will be using Silk’s Dark Theme; and when you relaunch the Silk browser in the future, the Dark Theme will be enabled by default unless you switch back to the Light Theme.
If you don’t like the Dark Theme or you would rather prefer to switch back to the Light Theme (especially in environments with high levels of brightness), you can switch back to Silk’s Light Theme by repeating the above steps; however, instead of selecting “Use Dark Theme” you are going to want to select “Use Light Theme” next to the little sun icon.
You are now ready to conquer the world of binary in the evening just as you could during the day.
