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Title: very disappointing
Review: I bought this magnifier thinking it would be nice to have for reading at night when I'm tired and have moire difficulty with small print. For this purpose, it is almost useless, The instructions which come with it say it should be held 4 feet from the page....which means you need 3 hands to read a book.I used it for the first time looking up a number in a compact phone book. Holding it the recommended distance seriously distorted the image. It was very dificult to read. I think this will, in short order, become an entertaining optical toy for my son (it is a fresnel lans).I'm glad I decided to order more than one magnifying tool because I did find one which was as good as this is disappointing. Although much smaller, the Fulcrum LED Card Magnifier is much more useful. The lens is clear (no distortion), it has a smaller area of higher magnification and a useful and very bright built in led. It's also very portable so I can always have one around when I need it.
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