Originally Posted By: Russ
Thanks, my point exactly. I'm far-sighted; I need 1.25 reading glasses at arms length, 1.75 at my elbow. Close-in without readers, I need to blow up my iPhone display to the point that I have a very narrow view and at arms length I see no detail. So there you are, there isn't a cookie-cutter one-size-fits-all solution.

I don't understand why you cannot get +2.50 reading glasses and use your screen even closer to the eyes, I'm using +2.0.

The point haertig has expressed is that if you are nearsighted already - you need no reading glasses at all to have a huge crisp screen on a physically small device.