>I tried varifocals for a coupe of weeks and hated them. I went back to a plain prescription and taking them off for reading.

What did you hate about them? I found them weird at first - no straight horz or vert lines - every rectangle spangle-shaped, floor and staircase lurching up at me, et al, but I got used to them after about a week and now the brain accommodates all the weirdness. Funny in that when I first started wearing them I was rennovating a room - wall papering, putting up picture rails, etc. All things that involved vert & horz perception. Talk about relying on your instruments! The spirit level was my friend! :-)

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>>I have the opposite problem. I have to take my glasses off to read.
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>>>I have 1x reading glasses that I bought at Walmart (per the eye doctor's recommendation) and use for reading fine print on medicine bottles, ingredients on food products and shampoo, et al. I finally had to admit that the print wasn't getting smaller and it was my eyes :o) I actually have a prescription that has 1x on the bottom and nothing on the top. I've never used them though because I only need them when reading small print and I'd rather have larger glasses for that then try to look through the very bottom of glasses.