My first pair of readers - back when I was 39! - were prescribed by the optometrist. Since then I've bought drugstore glasses and really don't notice (or mind) the difference. Since I'm trying to avoid wearing them on a chain around my neck, I need a pair for nearly every room in my house, plus my purse, and soon the seat bags on my bikes - so less expensive glasses are great.
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Ugh.
I'm reading Watchmen in anticipation of the movie - first graphic novel I've ever read - and really enjoying it... but I'm finding that to see the art, unless the light is really bright, I need readers even when I don't have my contacts in. First time I've experienced that.
And that I could really bump up the magnification by another .25 when I do have them in. 
I just gotta keep telling myself... if this is the worst thing I have to deal with getting old, I can't complain. Except that it almost certainly won't be.
ETA: my optometrist - an independent local guy, not one of these big chains - never even suggested I buy $50 reading glasses from his office. Maybe they don't even sell them. When I go for my contact exams, he checks me for presbyopia, tells me I'm about where he expects me to be at my age
and sends me on my way.
Last edited by OakLeaf; 01-24-2009 at 11:43 AM.
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