zxqwas@lemmy.world 4 days ago
The target audience for the gas-station reading glasses are people aged 45+ that need something good enough to read about 30 minutes per day.
If you are near sighed you’ll probably use them all day every day.
Yeah, my prescription is + and gas station reading glasses are wearable magnifying glasses, not sufficient for “I need vision correction all day” hyperopia.
I think myopic people sometimes assume all hyperopia is presbyopia. For many farsighted people though, its literally just the inverse of nearsightedness. Like, without my glasses my instinct is to hold something at arms reach to try to read it
Nearsighted here, hate holding print away to read it. Having contacts in, gotta use reading glasses. Wearing glasses? Take them off and hold it 1" from my eyeball. :)
Didn’t get lasik after my mother told me she loved it but had to hold her book far away. Don’t think I could live with that. Plus, been waking up blurry for 50 years. Waking up seeing clearly scares the crap out of me because that means I got so drunk I left my contacts in, and that means I got hammered and probably ruined that pair. That hasn’t happened in years.
Got glasses at 5, contacts at 12, readers at 42. Couldn’t read fine print with my new prescription. Went back, doc tossed magnifying papers in my face.
“Hey! That works!
“How old are you?”
“42.”
“Yeah, that’s what I thought.”
Thought what mother fucker?!
I have no less than 12 pairs squirreled away, everywhere. Wife’s car, my truck, desk drawer, summer and winter hiking packs, overnight bag, on-the-water bag, tool shed at camp, emergency packs, bathroom sink, nightstand, on my face, in my hair, and I can never find a fucking pair. Found 10 for $1/ea. at the thrift, brand new, think I have 2 or 3 left?
If anyone reading needs glasses, lemme shill these. Never broken a pair, even after sitting on them and bending them back out. Popped a lens once and got it back in, which is amazing for glasses having the “underwire” thing, they usually break even worse. Try that with plastic rims and they’ll never quite stick well again.
Yes, they effectively block the blue end of the spectrum. No big deal outside, but nice for working on a computer or at night. (I have a 40” TV for a monitor, so blue blockers might not be such a thing for you. I am bathed in blue radiation.)
They fit my big head, comfortable, all that, hate the nose pads because I flip my glasses into my long hair like a girl and they stick. 🤬 Also, internet expensive, but about the cost of “good” drugstore glasses, still better. I’d like another set, but too rich for me ATM, gotta wait till I break or lose my crappy glasses. Got one left (of 3) after going through a couple dozen cheapos since I got these in 2022. Be perfect if they had the stretchy hinges and flat nose pads.
Some ass will accuse me of marketing. Marketers don’t cuss or say anything bad about the product. I sincerely want to give my experience on the subject. Because for me, reading glasses have been the biggest pain-in-the-ass of growing old.
Those only go up to +4. I haven’t been +4 since grade school
(Crap, back to where I can’t edit my own posts. AGAIN.)
Forgot the important bit! The optical clarity is tight, like none I’ve ever had. It’s like the difference in Foster Grant vs. $1 store specs, and they beat Foster Grant, solidly.
Got a question that may help with us all with future purchases. These are the only reading glasses I’ve ever had where I can walk around (briefly!) with them on (plus contacts). Every other sort makes me vaguely nauseous, whip 'em into my hair the minute I move again. Why?! Is there something I need to look for, some specification? Is this just the aforementioned optical clarity? The cheap shit is good enough for me to read tiny print, but I damned well can’t go to another room wearing them.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 4 days ago
This is the thing; you can get gas station glasses and you’ll do ok, but nothing like having it dialled in professionally. Besides the risk of developing eye disease and not having it discovered early because no eye exams.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Meh, the ranges of reading glasses are pretty limited and what strength you need can differ .25 depending on optical clarity. I just try them on and find some tiny print nearby. Or, I’m usually wearing a Casio of some sort and those watches have some tiny print.
Or can you get fine-tuned reading glasses where you live? Don’t think that’s a thing in America, or haven’t heard about it.