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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The only people past 50 who don't need reading glasses are those who are already a little bit short-sighted. (Or don't read!)
I don't need reading glasses myself -- when I'm in bed. That's because I'm very short sighted, and without my glasses the furthest I can see in focus is about 15 cm (six inches)! Which is perfect for reading an eReader on very small text, held very close.
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I beat you there. My minimum focusing distance without glasses is 1 inch. I can still read normal text at 4 inch, but then I need reading glasses to extend my focusing distance to 10 inches. After that, I can't see enough detail to read and I use normal glasses.
This year, my dioptre changed from -9 (normal) / -7 (computer) to -7 / -5.5, which would be the equivalent of needing to use reading glasses, and I'm only in my mid-thirties.