Reading glasses, reading glasses, wherefore art thou reading glasses? If you have reading glasses, you probably know the search verrrrry well. How often do you misplace yours?
Anyway, do you need to wear reading glasses to see? If so, what do you use them for most often? Are you wearing them right now? We’d like to know! Please leave a comment below the poll and tell us, thanks!
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I voted yes because I have bifocals, the bottom half are for reading and closeup. I used magnifiers for years first.
Poorly written poll, should include bifocals as option.
wouldn’t those fall under prescription?
It can be difficult to think of all the options one would want in a poll. In this case, there are bifocals, trifocals, and progressive lenses that were left out. Also, I wear progressives for normal, everyday stuff and a special computer focused set of glasses for computer work. I just said yes, prescription since they are both prescription.
I was talked into progressive lenses several years ago, told if I didn’t like them bring them back with in a month and they’d switch them back to line bifocals. At the end of a week I took them back to get the line bifocals, it seemed like every time I’d move my head to look at something I’d see that “swimmy” image. My brain couldn’t handle the feeling that I was dizzy. Lol
They definitely take some getting used to. I still get that feeling at time.
Yes and No, If I am watching TV and reading something, I use my Ti-Focals. If I am just reading or using the computer and don’t need distant vision, no glasses. My arms are still long enough. Wife is just the opposite.
Used to have several pairs of prescription lenses,after cataract surgery only need readers.
Same here. Before the surgery I didn’t need readers, only distance. Now distance is great. I was told that I would probably need readers. Strength about 1.25.
Small inconvenience since everything is so much clearer, no more fog and unbelievable colors.
I use prescription reading glasses for working at my desktop computer. For everything else my regular prescription glasses with bifocals work for distance and for close up.
During an eye exam, I read the chart and the doctor said, “If you can read that, you don’t need reading correction. Now, I take my glasses off to read and my wife puts her’s on.
Ditto
It always seems to put negative thoughts in my mind when someone takes their glasses of to see something. Lol
I wear just the magnifiers. I get them at Costco, (or when desperate, dollar tree.) I have a pair in my pocket, one on the motorcycle, one in my car, one in my WIFE’S car, 2 at the office, 3 (at least) in the RV and about a half-dozen scattered around the house…
and I can never find the dam* things!!
If I want to read a sign along the road I better be wearing my glasses, yep I can see far off but if it’s closer than 50 yds I better have my glasses. Lol
But I do have glasses for when I am at the computer.
I answered no. I wore $1 readers for years. I hated them. I now wear multifocal or mono vision contacts 24/7.
Not purrfect but better than glasses!
Have had astigmatism and near sightedness since I was a kid. In 1997 had laser surgery and went without glasses for 3 years. Then developed normal ol’ presbycusis! So, I’ve become a great fan of progressives. Use them for both regular and sunglasses. Can see in all directions. Would love to try contacts again but the laser surgery may have nixed that possibility.
I could not find the Reader Poll in today’s News Letter …………. until I put my Readers on.
I just had cataract surgery last March and I wear magnifying glasses when I read.
Bifocals.
I am nearsighted, but can read without glasses. So I have progressive lenses that pretty much have nothing in the lower portion of the lenses. Even with that, I take my glasses off to read. I’m typing this on an iPad which is about 15+ inches from my eyes (have a keyboard case) and can see perfectly as I type.
I answered No, but I do wear them occasionally – mostly for up-close work on electronics or things like that. I had bifocals for a while, and probably should go back to them, but I’ve found that using a computer I’m right in between long and short distance.
I wasn’t sure just how to answer. I don’t wear reading glasses, I wear seeing glasses that have bifocals. I need them to drive so, technically, they’re not reading glasses.
I wear contact lens. The one for my dominant eye is ground for viewing things in the distance. The one for my weaker eye is ground for close work/reading. I also wear prescription glasses that are bifocals. However, for really close work I remove my glasses if I’m wearing them at the time.
Approximately 20 yrs. ago I had cataract surgery on both eyes and lenses were replaced. Since then I buy my glasses at the dollar store. I get 250’s for reading in artificial light, 125’s for the computer, and if I am outside in daylight I can read newsprint without any glasses. My distance vision is perfect. The thing that gets me is trying to read a price on the bottom shelf in a grocery store. It is too small for “no glasses” and too far for “readers” to focus and my bad knees will not let me get close enough.
I’ve worn glasses since the 3rd grade (I’m in the 61st grade now) but I take them off to read things up close.
Dollar store generic “cheaters” work for me.
Glasses for 40 years or better. Bifocals progressives. Soon to have cataract surgery both eyes with corrective surgery so the hope as being in my sixties I won’t have to wear glasses but for reading only (dollar brand).
I wore glasses until I had cataract sugery. Now I have just reading glasses. I always buy the three pack so I know where a pair is all the time.
I have been wearing progressive lens for years. Good for distance, midrange, and quick looks up close. But if I really need to study the fine print the glasses come off. Nothing clearer or sharper than the naked eye. Thats me. My wife still does not understand it.
Like Jim, I wear progressive lenses, but the glasses come off when I read.