On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 20:30:41 +0000, GB
wrote:

I bought a very large pair of x3 glasses (at a car boot sale). These go
on top of my main specs. Could you not find a pair of similar to go on
top of your readers?

I've just checked my readers (with my x8 loupe) and they are 2.5 and I
wear them for all day for everything. The last time I had an eye test
(not that long ago) my prescription came out about that for reading
and I actually had some glasses made to that prescription but never
really worse them (too heavy and restrictive compared with these all
plastic eBay readers). ;-(

I also had some made for driving and another for more close up work
but I haven't worn them either. Whatever gain I might get optically is
offset by the inconvenience of the other facets.

It's only when putting other glasses on do I realise just how much I
rely on *all* the facets of these cheapy plastic readers. They never
just fall off, they are really light and being frameless, don't
obstruct my peripheral vision in any direction.

The X4's are (were, while they lasted) 'ok', but not quite strong
enough for anything but a slightly better close-up of stuff. Like,
when servicing the front brake caliper from daughters new (21 year
old) motorcycle the other day, I wanted to scrape the corrosion out of
the dust seal groove and whilst the X4's allowed me to do so to a
greater level of clarity / detail than my std readers, I really could
have done with a bit more magnification (and light).

It's like not feeling I'm able to judge what I'm doing as accurately
as I would like, as I would want to do ... (so end up doing more of it
by feel or sound that I might normally).

I think I have tried wearing two pairs of glasses at once but don't
remember it giving me the sort of level of detail I would like?

Cheers, T i m