Buying the Best Battery and A/C Powered Clip on Book Light Designs that Properly Light Your Books, Hobbies & Crafts

December 17, 2009 by RD
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Properly selected, a book light can reduce eye fatigue by providing excellent lighting while reading, even in the darkest places, and can conserve 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 can do double duty as hobby, craft, podium or task lights. Light weight incandescent or LED designs can provide exactly the required amount of light exactly where you need it, without wasting energy or disturbing others around you, like a spouse or partner watching TV.

By illuminating your reading materials with the correct quantity and temperature of light, the right book light can help to 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 best 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 lamps lighting things other than our reading, we save considerable energy and the money required to pay for that energy.

When making the choice between incandescent and LED designs, three primary concerns are: the differences in the type of light produced by these two distinct technologies, the cost of acquisition, and the cost of maintenance and operation over time. Incandescent lights typically produce a warm, somewhat golden-tinged light, and bulbs typically have service lives of between 15-25 hours of use and then must be replaced. LED lights put out a whiter, cooler light, with many designs now optimized to approximate the output of light from the sun. Today, most book lovers find the light of modern LEDs to be more “sun like”, producing greater clarity and contrast and making most printing easier to read. While replacement bulbs for many incandescent book light designs are usually available in local electronic retail shops, and over the Internet, the cost of replacement can really mount up over time. Because LEDs offer life expectancies of 10,000 to 50,000 hours, their 10-20% greater initial purchase price quickly becomes irrelevant. Generally, LED book light designs are now more popular than the older incandescent.

Battery powered clip on lights are the handiest, because they can be used anywhere. Unfortunately, batteries too are 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 light designs make use of either AA or AAA batteries, and many rechargeable options are on offer. Additionally, if your light is to be used close to an A/C outlet, an optionally available A/C adapter can be a money saving investment.

Finally, the uniformity of light dispersal and the area over which it is dispersed is also an important consideration when selecting the best book light for a particular application. If your light will only be used to illuminate a standard size, mass market paperback, a single LED or incandescent portable design will likely be adequate; however, if you read mostly hard cover books, newspapers and magazines, or even a full music stand of sheet music, you’ll want a more powerful design that distributes the light over a much broader area. The best way to determine the most perfect light for your particular application will be to test it in actual use. When shopping, be sure your retailer provides both good pre-sale and return service, in case your first choice turns out not to be as suitable as you had hoped. With a bit of application, you can buy just the right light for just about any application.

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