Ready-made and customized glasses for reading

January 24th, 2010 by Reza Hyver Leave a reply »

Glasses for reading are quite useful for those who have presbyopia. Eyewear reading glasses can magnify the close things such as books and maps. They just perform as somewhat a magnifier. So you can get glasses for reading even without a prescription. Therefore, two kinds of eyewear reading glasses are available: ready-made glasses for reading and customized glasses for reading. Each of them has its respective advantages and disadvantages.

Ready-made eyewear reading glasses are also named pre-fabricated glasses eyewear reading glasses. Whenever you enter a glasses store, they are just ready for you. You need not to take any eye exam and get a description and then wait for your glasses for reading. Ready-made eyewear reading glasses have a kind of magnifying lens and help you see nearer items better. They sacrifice no function as reading glasses. Furthermore, Ready-made glasses for reading are usually much cheaper than customized ones. This enables you to experience several different styles and colors of reading glasses and provides you various looks. However, since ready-made glasses for reading are not exactly made according to your eye prescription, some problems may occur, such as eye strain and tiredness.

Customized eyewear reading glasses are relatively expensive. If you can afford the extra cost, these glasses should be the better way to go. The lenses of customized glasses for reading are made exactly with your reading prescription so that they are not similar. Secondly, the optical center of the lenses is also in accordance with your prescription rather than a random place. Customized eyewear reading glasses are not “one for all” types so that they hardly cause unnecessary strain and discomfort.

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