Calibre Ebook Reader Dark Mode

Then right click then preferences.

Calibre ebook reader dark mode. Can also be enabled by setting the calibre use dark palette environment variable made me super excited because it s been a serious pet peeve of mine for a long time. In calibre as well as all other epub readers that i can find for both android and windows if i can even get them to scroll instead of page jump i abruptly reach chapter ends and without knowing that i m reaching the end as soon as i scroll one more line it hops to the beginning of the next chapter. To temporarily open the e book reader in dark mode simply run command.

See my linked answer on foxit reader which can match adobe reader but has no dark gui and no full screen. Or from calibre main select the book and press view read books button. Then set the colors for background and foreground text.

Calibre ebook reader like many ebook readers can edit colors of font and page but it can also open text based pdfs. To make it permanent run command to edit the desktop file and do. While on macos and windows the dark mode is enabled automatically based on the system theme linux users have to set the calibre use dark palette 1 environment variable in the bash profile configuration file on their home directory to enable the new dark mode or by running the export calibre use dark palette 1 command.

In order to get dark background and light font in the ebook viewer just open an ebook with it with the viewer not with calibre itself. The app is packed with features allowing you to do things like downloading epubs managing metadata downloading covers for books transferring books from one device to another and even converting books from one format to another. Day mode uses a colour scheme that displays dark text on a light background.

Add env calibre use dark palette 1 at the beginning of the values of tryexec and exec. It s a highly disruptive process. Add support for the dark mode.

Calibre is one of the oldest and the best epub reader for your windows machine. If you turn on dark mode under the windows settings personalisation colors and restart calibre it will use dark colors. Night mode uses the opposite scheme with light text on a dark background.