I'd been reading on small screens for years, but recently noticed a gradual "upsizing" trend (Palm TE2 -> Ipod -> Pocket Edge -> Acer A100). Well, yesterday I got my new glasses (bifocals. *SIGH*. In the words of the Rolling Stones: "What a drag it is getting old" *SIGH*). What a difference. The 7" Acer is as useable as My Better Half's 10" Acer. The Ipod is as clear as the Edge.
I've been wearing glasses or contacts since the age of 4. I get my eyes checked every year. My distance perscription has been stable since I was thirty, but this change in my near vision was so gradual that I was compensating for it without knowing and both I and my optometrist missed it till now. When I think of the money I could have saved by buying glasses instead of new devices.....
(NOT! I probably would have bought the devices anyway, since I'm a gadet junkie!
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