Characterisitcs of the Best Battery and A/C Powered Book Light Designs that Properly Light Your Books, Crafts, Hobbies and Podium

When selected properly, a book light can reduce eye strain by assuring ample light 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 secure to your book, book holder, or book stand, and many designs can also function as hobby, craft, podium or task lights. Light weight incandescent or LED designs can provide just the right amount of light anywhere you need it, without wasting energy or disturbing those around you, like a spouse or partner on the other side of the bed.

By lighting your reading materials with the right amount 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 exactly where we’re reading can be difficult. Obviously, the most perfect light for reading is natural sunlight shining directly over your shoulder, but we often need to read when or where sunlight simply isn’t available. Hence, the right book light, a light we can use any time and any place we choose, iscan be} an incredible convenience. Then, turning off the overheads and lamps lighting things other than our reading, we can save considerable energy and the money it takes to pay for it.

When choosing between incandescent and LED book light designs, 3 primary considerations are: the differences in the type of light produced by these two technologies, the cost of acquisition, and the cost of operation over the lifetime of the light. Incandescent light sources typically create a warm, somewhat golden-tinged light, and bulbs typically have service lives of between 15-25 hours of use and then have to be replaced. LED lights produce a whiter, cooler light, and many designs are now optimized to approximate the output of light from the sun. Hence, most readers find the light of modern LED designs to be more “sun like”, producing greater clarity and contrast and making all printing easier to read. While replacement incandescent bulbs are generally 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 cost of acquisition quickly becomes irrelevant. Generally, LED book light designs are now more popular than the older incandescent.

Battery powered clip on lights are the handiest, as your light can be used virtually anywhere. Unfortunately, batteries too are a replaceable item, typically lasting 20-30 hours of use at best, in LED or incandescent designs. Optional A/C adapters are available for most book lights, but another possibility is to use rechargeable batteries and a recharger. Most book light designs make use of either AA or AAA batteries, and many rechargeable options exist. Additionally, if your light is to be used close to an electrical outlet, an optional A/C adapter can be a money saving investment.

Finally, the area of dispersal is also an important consideration when choosing the best book light for a specific application. If your light will only be used to light up a standard size, mass market paperback, a single LED or incandescent clip on light design will probably be adequate; however, if you read mostly hard cover books, newspapers and magazines, or even a full music stand of sheet music, you’ll need a more powerful light which distributes the light over a much broader area. The best way to determine the most suitable light for your particular application will be to test it in actual use. Wherever you shop, be sure your dealer provides both good information and advice before the sale, and a good return policy, just in case your first choice doesn’t work out. With a bit of application, you can acquire the best clip on light for just about any use.