Getting cataract surgery soon and will for the first time need readers. Don’t carry a purse anymore, so looking thinoptics.com as they com in MagSafe holder that attaches to an iPhone. I always have my phone with me hiking, traveling. I’m thinking this might be just what I need in a pinch. Anyone ever tried them?
Also looking at cool ones to have at home and maybe sunglasses with readers. So many options!
Those ‘armless’ ones wouldn’t work for me at all. They’d always be sliding down, and it is most likely you’d be looking down when needing them (reading, looking at phone). Maybe the ones in the center would work.
My brother works construction and needs readers for looking at directions and plans. He has some that have magnets to attach them together at the nose, but they strap around his neck when he isn’t wearing them, and they don’t fall out of a pocket or off the top of his head when he doesn’t need them. Sort of like grandmother would wear on a chain in the the olden days, but these are tighter to his neck so don’t dangle.
I’ve used until I lost them and didn’t replace. They are very handy but I always have actual readers as well.
I buy cheap ones in bulk (4-5 in a pack from Amazon) - when they break or I lose them I just move on to the next pair.
When I first needed them, I was so excited about tinted ones for the beach. Turns out I didn’t use them much.
The most important thing will be what level you will need. After the surgery have your eye doctor test for you.
I was looking at transition and progressive with readers at the bottom only. Could work for reading outside and hiking, then readers inside. Zenni prices are not bad.
I got these to slip into my tiny wallet-on-a-chain.
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I recommend treating readers like lip balm. Just get a bunch of cheap ones and put them everywhere. The local hardware store sells them for like $5. I have a pair in my desk drawer, on my bedside table, in the bathroom, in my purse. You could put a pair in your car and in your day pack if you’re hiking (although I have never needed readers while hiking myself). You can adjust the settings on your phone so you may not need readers for that.
If you like to read outside in bright sunshine some tinted readers might be nice or you can get those sunglasses that go over other glasses. I don’t need readers in bright light unless I am trying to get a splinter out or doing some close up crafting. I can read fine in bright light but squinting at the menu in a dim restaurant will make me break them out.
I have different magnifications for different needs. It’s nice to have some super strong ones for detailed crafting/art work and then some barely there ones to help me with shelving tasks when I volunteer at the library.
My strategy will be just fine opposite. I used to lose cheap sunglasses left and right. Then I bought a pair of Tom Ford ones. $$$ You bet I still have them 15 years later! And I wear sunglasses all the time when it’s not pitch black because it is the only proven way to stall dry AMD. So when the time comes for me to get reading glasses, I’ll get the most expensive frame and prescription lenses at Costco. 
I buy readers at the dollar store for (I think) $1.75. They have a pretty good variety and I buy 5 or so at a time.
My strategy may be mostly similar to most here. I have one single pair of very good prescription reading glasses. They include both distance correction and astigmatism correction (but only 1/4 of a diopter for astigmatism, so it is not much). They are carefully measured to correspond to the distance between my eyes and my laptop screen when I type. I leave them in the same spot all the time, and never ever take them out of the house. If I am in the garden mending a fence, they do not come with me. They stay where they are safe. I am using them right now.
Otherwise I have a lot of cheap drugstore reading glasses. This is what I take to restaurants, and to the grocery store. This is what I use when I am mending a fence or one of my plant protectors in the garden. If I am going to lose a pair of glasses, this is what I lose. If I am going to drop a pair and step on them, this is what I am going to step on. If I forget a pair in the garden, this is what I forget (and sometimes I find them six months later, and sometimes they are still okay). As they get older, I become more willing to use them in locations where I am more likely to lose them. I also have some stronger ones (eg, for threading a needle or removing a thorn from a finger).
One thing about reading glasses, you only need them when you are reading. This means that you take them off a lot. This puts them at risk (unless you are in your favorite chair watching Olympics on the TV while commenting on CC).
You might not know whether you want 1.5’s or 2.0’s or some other strength (maybe 1.0 or 1.25 for a computer??) until a few weeks after your second eye is fixed for cataracts. Having a pair of each however is likely to work out (they are not all that expensive).
I have a pair of reading dark glasses and hardly ever use them. I also have a pair of prescription distance dark glasses and I use them all the time. The amount of correction is very small and I do not need them for driving. However having essentially perfect distance vision when driving is a luxury, and not all that expensive of a luxury (perhaps I like cheap luxuries).
Good luck with this. I find the idea of cataract surgery rather terrifying, but I am told that it is quick and goes well the vast majority of the time. It seems to have gone well in my wife’s case and I expect and hope will also go well in your case (and eventually in my case).
My H is not far behind.
