Review on 👓 Lighted Reading Glasses, Tortoise: Enhancing Your Reading Experience with Style and Convenience by Kendra Alexander

I bought these after realizing the batteries I needed for my Foster Grant backlit readers would cost more than new glasses. They looked similar but were cheaper (but not cheap enough to be a red flag) so I gave them a try. They're ridiculously narrow, with lenses, as the brand's only "feminine" style. I don't understand why no other shape is suggested, but I'm quite petite so male readers, although wider, tend to be huge to me. I got them hoping I could live with that, and if you don't mind being able to see 2 inches above and below the actual lens, you might not mind, but it did annoy me. The real problem, however, was that they were just cheap and of poor quality. The light was never as bright as my Foster Grants (FGs were so powerful I could only use one side at a time. They were too dim to work on one even early in battery life. In fact, I wore FG as long as I did could, because even with dead batteries they were still better than these at full power.When they were completely dead I went back to them, but after about 3 uses (maybe 20-30 minutes each time?) the left side started to flicker and then turn on and off, at that point my 30 day window had just closed.The placement of the light on them is different too - it reflects back into the eye whereas other brands are totally out of control so they do it This does not. As soon as I try to use it, the left side flickers from time to time before finally disappearing, although the right side still works, albeit weakly, the problem can be found in the ve Packing: maybe $7 more Foster Grants came with a thickly lined glasses case and a second set of batteries. They were disassembled, boxed, with no protective case or even bubble wrap, and no backup batteries. I suspect shipping was a bit of a hassle for them, but I don't understand why the manufacturer shipped the lenses with thin wires in an unprotected box with them lying loose. The goggles themselves are too bulky to fit in a standard case of any size, which I already had (and I have many), so they're also pretty easily scratched. The on/off levers are open and protrude, meaning they can easily get caught in hair or whatever, and I've always been afraid of accidentally breaking them. I also found the fit to be poor - I was able to use my other FGs as a last resort during the day and they were a bit heavier than regular readers - but they were loose and kept falling off, not to mention bulky and clunky heavy. I could live with that point - they would of course be a little harder to shine - but combined with everything else it was a deal breaker. I even tried tightening the bolts, but I think that's just because the levers were always loose, even right after tightening. Unfortunately money wasted. Illuminated readers are probably the bookworm's greatest invention, but not this pair. My advice is don't be tempted to buy cheap ones like I did. You get what you pay for, and in this case I think I paid for a spectacle-shaped paperweight.