Night-reading is a great way to get your reading fix without having to leave your app. But if you’re not using night-reading mode in all of your apps, you’re missing out on some great benefits. Here are three:

  1. You’ll get an extra hour of sleep each night because you’ll be reading during the hours when you’re most likely to be asleep.
  2. You’ll save time by not having to search through a pile of books to find the one you want.
  3. You’ll be able to read more quickly because you won’t have to wait for the book to finish loading before starting your next one.

Over at Digital Inspiration they share a very clever way to extend the benefits of the dimmed and inverted-color Night setting in iBooks to your entire iOS experience. They write:

There’s an easy workaround. On your iOS device, tap the Settings icon and choose General –> Accessibility –> Triple-click Home and and set it to “Toggle White on Black.”

Press the Home button to exit Settings and launch any reading app. Triple-click the Home button on your iOS device in quick succession and it should enable white-on-black effect quite similar to iBooks Night mode. Triple-click again to switch to normal mode. Simple!

The only downside to this, they note, is that images (both within apps and on the web) will look like photographic negatives instead of normal photographs.

Enable the Night-Reading Mode Inside Any iOS App [Digital Inspiration]