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When selected properly, a book light can reduce eye stress by providing excellent lighting while reading, even in the darkest places, and can help to save both energy and money. A sturdy clip on book light design can make your light easy to securely attach to your book, book holder, or book stand, and many designs do double duty as craft, podium, hobby or other task lighting. Light weight incandescent or LED designs can put exactly the required amount of light anywhere you need it, without wasting energy or disturbing those around you, like a spouse or partner watching TV.

By illuminating your reading materials with the correct amount and temperature of light, the right book light can save your eyes from strain and help you read even when the lights are low. Our eyes require more light as we age, and providing the correct amount of light for what we’re reading can be difficult. Obviously, the most perfect light for reading is natural sunlight coming directly from over your shoulder, but we often wish to read when or where sunlight isn’t available. Hence, the right book light, one we can use anywhere and anytime we choose, iscan be} an incredible convenience. Then, turning off the overheads and lamps illuminating so much more than our reading materials, we conserve considerable energy and the money required to pay for that energy.

When choosing between incandescent and LED designs, three primary considerations include: the different color or temperature of light produced by these two technologies, the cost of original purchase, and the cost of operation over time. Incandescent lights typically create a warm, somewhat golden-tinged light, and incandescent bulbs typically will provide light between 15-25 hours of use and then have to be replaced. LED lights create a whiter, cooler light, and many designs are now optimized to be the equivalent of the output of lighting from the sun. Hence, many readers find the light of modern LEDs to be more “sun like”, producing greater clarity and contrast and making all printing easier to read. While replacement incandescent bulbs are readily available in local stores, as well as over the Internet, the expense and inconvenience of replacement can really add up over time. Since LEDs provide life expectancies of 10,000 to 50,000 hours, their 10-20% greater initial purchase price quickly becomes irrelevant. Generally, then, LED book light designs are now the preferred choice over the older incandescent.

Battery powered clip on lights are the handiest, since your light can be used almost anywhere. Unfortunately, batteries themselves are also a an item that must be replaced, typically lasting 20-30 hours of use at best, in either LED or incandescent designs. Optional A/C adapters are available for most book lights, but another possibility is to make use of a good battery recharger and rechargeable batteries. Most book lights make use of either AA or AAA batteries, and many rechargeable options exist. Additionally, if your light is to be used close to an electrical outlet, an optional A/C adapter can be a worthwhile investment.

Finally, the uniformity of light dispersal and the area over which it is dispersed is also a meaningful consideration when identifying the best book light for a particular application. If your light will only be used to illuminate a standard mass market paperback book, a simple LED or incandescent book light design will likely be sufficient; however, if you read mostly hard cover books, newspapers and magazines, or even a full music stand of sheet music, you’ll want a much more powerful light which distributes the lighting over an appropriately larger area. The ideal way to determine the most suitable design for your particular application will be to test it in actual use. Wherever you shop, be sure your retailer offers both good information and advice before the sale, and a good return policy, just in case your first choice doesn’t quite hit the mark. With a bit of application, you can buy just the right book light for any application.

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