Finding the Perfect Battery and/or A/C Powered Clip on Book Light Designs that Properly Illuminate Your Books, Hobbies & Crafts

Posted October 20th, 2009 by Spike

When selected properly, a book light can reduce eye strain by providing excellent lighting while reading, even in darkened venues, 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 can also function as hobby, craft, podium or task lights. 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 just the correct amount and temperature 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 best light for reading is natural sunlight coming directly from over your shoulder, but we often wish to read when or where sunlight simply isn’t available. Hence, the correctly selected book light, a light we can use any time and any place we choose, iscan be} an incredible convenience. By then turning off the overheads and lamps illuminating so much more than our reading materials, we can save considerable energy as well as the money it takes to pay for that energy.

When making the choice between incandescent and LED designs, 3 primary concerns include: the different color or temperature of light produced by these two distinct technologies, the cost of acquisition, and the cost of operation over the lifetime of the light. Incandescent lights typically create a warm, somewhat yellowish light, and bulbs typically last between 15-25 hours of use and then must be replaced. LED lights create a whiter, cooler light, and many designs are now optimized to approximate the output of light from the sun. Today, most readers find the light of modern LEDs to be more “sun like”, producing greater 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 expense and inconvenience of replacement can really add up over time. Since LEDs provide life expectancies of 10,000 to 50,000 hours, their 10-20% greater initial cost of acquisition quickly becomes irrelevant. For these and other reasons, LED book lights are now the preferred choice over the older incandescent.

Battery powered book light designs are the handiest, since your light can be used virtually anywhere. Unfortunately, batteries themselves are also a replaceable item, lasting 20-30 hours of use at best, in LED or incandescent designs. Available A/C adapters are available for most book lights, and another possibility is to use rechargeable batteries and a recharger. Most book lights make use of either AA or AAA batteries, and many rechargeable options exist. In addition, if your light is typically used close to an A/C outlet, an optionally available A/C adapter is usually a worthwhile investment.

Finally, the area over which the light is dispersed is also a consideration when choosing the best book light for a specific application. If your light will only be used to light a standard mass market paperback book, a single LED or incandescent book light design will probably be adequate; however, if you read magazines, most hard cover books or a stand full of music, you’ll need a much more powerful light which can distribute the lighting over a much broader area. The ideal way to determine the best design for any particular application will be to test it in actual use. Wherever you shop, be sure your retailer offers both good pre-sale and return service, just in case your first choice doesn’t quite hit the mark. With diligence, you can buy just the right light for each and every application.

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