Re: Anyone been there, done that?

Isabel Danforth (danforth@tiac.net)
Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:39:30 -0400 

Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 21:39:30 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.2.32.19970826214634.00803480@sunspot.tiac.net>
From: Isabel  Danforth <danforth@tiac.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Re: Anyone been there, done that?

Well, .. so i can admit to using bifocals also.  This time I decided to get
a pair of 'reading' glasses to use with my computer.  I have found only one
problem.  At home, I have a 17 inch monitor, and I often lean back in my
chair, put the keyboard in my lap, and work that way.  I cannot do that
'laid back' computing  with the reading glasses.  I have to sit up, and
move close enough to the screen to have it within my 'reading distance'.
in that situation, the reading glasses work nicely.  No more tipping my
chin up in the air to read the screen.

I hope that helps.

Isabel


At 04:03 PM 8/26/97 -0400, Joan Schneider wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>I'm looking for help from someone who has "been there, done that."
>
>I am looking for a pair of new glasses to use when I'm online.
>
>Last year I shifted to bifocles, and purchased the progressive lenses.
>
>They work fine with a few glitches.  Reading picture books to a group of
>children sitting at my feet was a disaster because I needed to look
>through the wrong part of the lense to read the book sideways.
>
>But after a year of trying to adjust my computer screen to multiple
>heights, I could never get comfortable, and I suspect I need some type
>of glasses specifically to use with computers.  I'm not worried about
>reading picture books, because I know many of my favorite picture books
>by heart.
>
>Any advice? Anything specific to know about glasses that work with
>computers?
>
>Joan Schneider, back from summer vacation
>jschneid@connix.com
>
>Niantic Center School Library
>7 West Main Street, Niantic, CT 06357
>
>http://www.connix.com/~jschneid/ncs.html
>
>
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