Re: Anyone been there, done that?
Donna Miller (dmiller@avon.lib.ct.us)
Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:55:49 -0400
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 13:55:49 -0400
Message-Id: <3.0.1.32.19970829135916.00690d0c@connect.crlc.org>
From: Donna Miller <dmiller@avon.lib.ct.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <conntech>
Subject: Re: Anyone been there, done that?
At 04:03 PM 8/26/97 -0400, you 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
>
Joan,
My optometrist (who wears trifocals) said that many people he fits for
glasses and who work with computers all day long get trifocals. It's the
middle part you look through to view the computer screen-don't know how
they would work reading "sideways" at story hour, though. Maybe you could
get trifocals and just keep the bifocals on hand for story hours. Good
luck! Donna, Avon PL