How to Choose Reading Glasses and Readers?

1.What is reading glasses?

Reading glasses come in two main styles: Full frames & "Half-eye frames".

Full reading glasses are suitable for people who spend a great deal of time concentrating on material close-up. These give you a larger field of view for reading, but if you try to look up and across the room through them, everything appears blurry.

In contrast, "half-eye" reading glasses allow you to look down and through the lenses for near work, and up and over them to see in the distance.

Generally, people who have never needed glasses in the past will start out with a pair of reading glasses rather than progressive lenses or bifocals, which are usually a better choice if you have a need for distance as well as near correction.

Reading glasses are available in lots of fun styles and colors, too, so you can experiment with fashion, purchasing a somewhat outrageous pair of glasses without risking a lot of money.

2.What is the Readers?

The readers are kinds of reading glasses. Rather than specific prescription required by customized reading glasses, the readers only need you to fill in your Strength.

For example, after you choose a frame on Vooglam and want to select lens, just click the button:

Then choose Reading Glasses:

If you want to have a pair of customized reading glasses, just click USE MY PRESCRIPTION, and fill in the prescription information as reminded:

And if you only need the Readers, just click this button:

Then fill in your strength and reach the next stage of Choosing Lens Thickness.

Reading glasses are typically for those with presbyopia, the age-related eye condition that causes the eye’s lens to become more rigid over the years, decreasing a person’s near vision. This type of glasses is convex (curved outward) in shape, which causes near objects to look clearer. Non-prescription reading glasses are widely available over the counter but have generic strengths, requiring people to find their optimal correction by trial and error. In addition, these “ready-made” readers typically have the same corrective strength in both lenses and do not account for the astigmatism that many people have. As a result, people often choose to receive prescription reading eyeglasses to get a more accurate vision correction and frame fit.