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u/mintbrownie - I’d like to discuss your fellow suggestmeabook mods trying to get ahold of you. Please check your messages :)
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I am ... getting older and have recently had to start using reading glasses. This development is causing me all sorts of inconvenience. I can never find them (they're usually on top of my head) or I'll be reading and my partner will say something and I'll look up and she'll be all blurry so i take them off then I look down at my book and I can't read!
This is the worst reading development I've ever had. Getting old has some drawbacks.
Bifocals! I want to be able to look out the window and then back to my book.
So, wow! This may end up being the best tip I've ever gotten on the internet. I'm on Day 2 of having bifocals and I think they've changed my life.
This is under consideration! I'm looking into it.
A piece of advice you didn’t ask for — get bigger frames then you would think you want, even if like me you like smaller glasses. You want enough room to be able to look down at your book very comfortably, and be able to look up comfortably, so a big screen!
In this case, I appreciate the unsolicited advice!
Any suggestions where in should look for bifocal reading glasses?
I made the change over to audiobooks for the majority of my reading. I expect I'm several decades older than you are. I have perfect vision with correction, but my eyes are dry, they tire quickly, and print on paper is much more difficult than print that is backlit.
I, too, am old and started to think that after staring at screens all day, giving my eyes a break might be a good thing. Nevertheless, I was a reluctant experimenter when I first tried audiobooks, thinking I would get frustrated with the narrator going too slowly (I read pretty quickly), doing silly voices or accents, or that my mind would wander. And all those things did happen, for a few days. Then I started noticing how great the narrators were, giving each character their own voice and subtle affectations. That was 10 years ago, and I'm right around the 80/20 audio/book ratio at this point.
The best thing is, I'm exploring so many more authors and genres now. Audiobooks have easily tripled my reading capacity. Good times!
My mind drifts some when I read. I've found myself missing things in audiobooks. With ebooks or paperbooks, I can easily go back a paragraph or two; not so easy with an audiobook.
I have, however, recently begun doing re-reads via audiobooks on my walks or long drives and I've found it works very well for me, as it matters so much less if I drift off for a moment. It's been a very enjoyable discovery.
It's like anything new. You have to train your mind to it. We're used to giving podcasts, radio, and TV only half our attention, so when you start out, that's what your brain does. But eventually you'll get it trained to pay attention.