Finding the Perfect Battery and A/C Powered Clip on Book Light Designs that Properly Illuminate Your Books
When selected properly, a book light can reduce eye stress by assuring ample light while reading, even in the darkest places, and can save both energy and money. A well designed clip on book light design can make your light easy to 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 provide exactly the required lighting anywhere you need it, without wasting energy or disturbing those around you, like a spouse or partner sleeping beside you.
By lighting your reading materials with the correct quantity and color of light, a 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 exactly where we’re reading can be a real challenge. Obviously, the most perfect light for reading is natural sunlight coming directly over your shoulder, but we often have to read when or where sunlight isn’t available. Hence, the correctly selected book light, one we can use anywhere and anytime we choose, iscan be} an incredible convenience. Then, turning off the overheads and other lighting illuminating so much more than our reading materials, we save considerable energy as well as the money it takes to pay for that energy.
When choosing between incandescent and LED designs, three primary considerations are: the differences in the type of light produced by these two technologies, the cost of original purchase, and the cost of operation over the lifetime of the light. Incandescent light sources typically produce a warm, somewhat yellowish light, and bulbs typically have service lives of between 15-25 hours of use and then must be replaced. LED lights produce a whiter, cooler light, with many designs now optimized to approximate the output of lighting from the sun. Hence, many readers find the light of modern LEDs to be more “sun like”, producing greater contrast and making all printing easier to read. While replacement bulbs for many incandescent book light designs are generally available in local electrical and hardware stores, as well as over the Internet, the expense and inconvenience of replacement can really add up over time. Because LEDs offer life expectancies of 10,000 to 50,000 hours, the 10-20% greater initial cost of acquisition quickly becomes irrelevant. Generally, then, LED book lights are now the preferred choice over the older incandescent.
Battery powered book light designs are the handiest, as your light can be used almost anywhere. Unfortunately, batteries too are a replaceable item, lasting 20-30 hours of use at best, in LED or incandescent designs. Optional A/C adapters are offered for most book lights, and another possibility is to make use of a good battery recharger and rechargeable batteries. Most book light designs make use of either AA or AAA batteries, and many rechargeable options exist. In addition, if your light is to be used close to an electrical outlet, an optionally available A/C adapter can be a money saving investment.
Finally, the area of dispersal is also an important consideration when identifying the best book light for a particular application. If your light is only to be used to illuminate a standard size, mass market paperback, a simple LED or incandescent clip on light design will probably be sufficient; but, if you read magazines, most hard cover books or a stand full of music, you’ll need a more powerful light that distributes the lighting over a much broader area. The ideal way to determine the best light for any particular application will be to test it in actual use. Wherever you shop, be sure your retailer provides both good pre-sale and return service, in case your first choice doesn’t work out. With a bit of application, you can buy the best clip-on book light for each and every use.
