Computer glasses: quick “hack”

Yeah, I look like an old guy fool, but what’s new with that?

A young person in the family who is an optometrist won’t like this post, but here’s my quickie “hack” for computer glasses and semi-close work: get some big lens reading glasses, and simply just wear them over your other ones!

Since I need glasses for objects both far and near, I’ve worn “progressives,” a kind of bifocal, for years and years. I need stronger correction every time I get checked. But even with new glasses it became harder to do simple home-fixing projects because of blurriness, and I could never get the right distance.  I know surgeons, dentists and jewelers use expensive binocular loupes, but wearing both sets of glasses works just fine!

Now don’t put off seeing your optometrist, since they check for diseases, too, but it seems like all the chain drug stores and even grocery stores sell reading glasses these days. Of course you could get various magnifiers, too (and I’ve always loved magnifying glasses, monocular microscopes, binoculars and telescopes):

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