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You need a jeweler's loupe to read the postage stamp sized owners manual for your new fit watch.
agingdem
(7,860 posts)3.0 magnifying reading glasses to read the back of a shampoo bottle and the expiration date on a can of soup...
trof
(54,256 posts)I wear an led headlamp.
trof
(54,256 posts)Gee, that was actually a pretty good musical variety show. Lots of very talented people.
Oh dear...
agingdem
(7,860 posts)wonder why I had a girly crush on the guy...
trof
(54,256 posts)I can sing along.
agingdem
(7,860 posts)along with the theme songs from Exodus and Giant...
patphil
(6,217 posts)agingdem
(7,860 posts)Mouseketeer Bobby Burgess, a regular on Lawrence Welk...
patphil
(6,217 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)I forget their names (Noooo, REALLY? ).
I always they were kind of ... creepy?
Like pedophiles?
I dunno.
Kali
(55,025 posts)load it to your computer and zoom to read! (also most manuals are on line already, try that. I am about done with microscopic fonts!)
Walleye
(31,062 posts)sorcrow
(421 posts)trof
(54,256 posts)I did have to look it up.
Left off the e.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)F***!!!!
wnylib
(21,615 posts)you can't read even with reading glasses after cataract surgery.
I have multiple allergies, must check all labels and can't read most of them.
usonian
(9,898 posts)to read almost anything, including this tiny iPhone.
There just HAD to be some upside to this malady.
That said, there are apps, including good old "camera" to help you read small print.
I use one to find my glasses when they disappear. The phone is as far as I can see without them.
Now, what was the question?
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)ShazzieB
(16,539 posts)But these days, I can't read much of anything without my glasses. I can just barely remember what it was like to be able to read without them, but can't really remember when I lost that ability.
I am hoping to have cataract surgery later this year and assuming I will always need reading glasses!
OAITW r.2.0
(24,633 posts)Called magnifier....with an option to use the LED to flood the material you want to read. Very handy for miniature manuals and cooking directions on labels.
ShazzieB
(16,539 posts)Thanks for the tip!
MOMFUDSKI
(5,676 posts)I was on a landline talking w/India regarding computer and he asked for Serial #. WOW. Chin holding phone, left hand lifting computer tower, right hand holding magnifying glass to read teeny weeny serial #. Like my daughter tells me, "Mom, you need someone videotaping you all day because people would PAY to see this stuff". I did find it funny AND I am easily amused.
elleng
(131,138 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,736 posts)Damn! I have only just begun to know myself as 'grown-up', as in "what do you grown-ups know, except groans?"
And now I need to know myself as old; but where did my old self go? I'd swear I used it yesterday.
It is like as long as I have known myself, Ive known only changes in the world around me, starting with my own body.
Myself I still know as the enthused knower of my youth, now driving a worn out car. Anyone want to trade?
3Hotdogs
(12,414 posts)80, is the new 85.
trof
(54,256 posts)I'm 80 and I long to be just 75 again.
bother
appalachiablue
(41,177 posts)magnifier it works pretty well.
Jack-o-Lantern
(970 posts)so I watch them again as NOW I've forgoten the gist of the story.