Reading A Kindle In The Dark:Guide To Picking Out The Best Kindle Light

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If you like to read books at bedtime but your spouse needs to sleep then you're more than likely used to reading with the help of a book light. Reading a Kindle in the dark needs similar helpful light

Kindle: difficult to read in the dark

Some people are astonished when they find out that a Kindle is difficult to read in the dark. But if you really think about it then it makes perfect sense. The Kindle has been cleverly designed so that the display looks and feels just like real ink on real paper. This is not a backlit screen like the one you would find on a personal computer, this is e-ink technology. And the lack of a backlit screen means that just the same as a paperback book if you intend to read in the dark you will have to use the best Kindle reading light

You might decide this is a flaw of the Kindle, but the lack of a backlit screen is in fact what makes this reading device so wonderful. It would be very hard for you to renounce your favourite paperback books if you got tired eyes whenever you attempted to read. And those other eReaders with backlit screens can't be read in bright sunlight, so they're not too practical for taking away on vacation either

With the Kindle you will soon believe you're reading real ink on real paper, and reading in bright sunlight is as painless as reading a paperback. Now you understand just why backlit screens are inferior, and reading lights are acceptable let's take a look at the best lights for reading a Kindle in the dark

Clip on Kindle reading lights

The first kind of kindle light is a clip on one. As the name implies these useful lights just clip on to the top of your Kindle. You don't have to hold the light separately and the LED light is intense enough for you to read the screen clearly without being so bright that you have to worry about waking your sleeping companion!

You could visit your local bookstore to find out if they have any cheap clip on lights that are designed for use with paperback books, or you could invest in a proper Kindle clip on light that might cost a bit more but will have been primarily designed for your Kindle.

Kindle light cases

Your other option is to invest in a case with a Kindle light already built in. The benefit of this option is that the Kindle light tucks away safely inside the cover when not in use.

Some of the lights use their own power but others are intended to draw the power from your Kindle. This means that as long as there is power in your Kindle you don't have to worry about the light failing to work when you need to read your Kindle at bed time

Do You Know How To Choose The Right Lighting for Reading?

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There are a number of factors to take into consideration when deciding on the best kind of lighting for reading. Although more and more individuals are deciding to gather information about the world we live in by means other than reading a book, a significant part of the world's population continues to read traditional, printed material in the form of books, magazines, etc.

The younger reader experiences fewer problems with poor illumination while reading. For example, some research concludes that we need only half the light at age 30 to have adequate reading illumination as compared to what we need at age 60 to read the same material. Age 40 seems to be the beginning of diminishing eyesight for most. The older we get, the more we are prone to eyestrain, blurring vision and headaches as a result of inadequate lighting while reading.

So, the first and primary consideration is selecting a fixture that will provide the right amount of illumination.

The rooms in your home where you do most of your reading should have lighting that illuminates the area in a general way that makes the room feel attractive and inviting. Where possible, combine general light with directed or task lighting. The lighting selected for reading should be considered supplemental and an addition to the general lighting used in the room.

A number of writers on this subject offer a variety of suggestions and options with respect to the type of lighting fixtures to use for reading. I am a strong believer in the use of what is called full spectrum lighting. This type of lighting is also known as natural lighting and was originally used for providing simulated natural sunlight to help with the growth of indoor plants. This natural lighting is easy on the eyes, brings out the true colors of what it illuminates, and relieves eyestrain.

The most common type of full spectrum light is the incandescent bulb, although full spectrum lights are also available as fluorescent fixtures. Several years ago, these natural lighting fixtures were hard to find and fairly expensive when compared to more conventional lighting sources, but they are currently available in nearly all home centers and in many grocery and discount department stores.

The life expectancy of natural light fixtures is comparable to that of traditional light fixtures and well worth the extra few dollars.

The best type of directed lighting unit to buy for purposes of reading are by and far the gooseneck lamp. While a table lamp may be more attractive, it has the disadvantages of not being able to direct the light to where it is needed and in general is not adjustable. Lighting manufacturers have gotten savvy to the need for designing and manufacturing stylish and attractive gooseneck lamps and you can find one to meet your own particular decorating tastes with very little trouble.

Directed or task lighting provided by a gooseneck lamp should be positioned behind your reading chair or couch. The lamp should be positioned behind you according to whether you are left or right handed to avoid overshadowing as you read. Right-handed individuals should position the lamp behind their left shoulder while left-handed persons should do the opposite. If you have a mixture of "handedness" in your home, everyone should be advised about this positioning.

Using a white of lightly colored shade will help with the illumination of the material while darker colored shades absorb rather than reflect the illumination.

Glare is another major consideration when using a reading light. With a gooseneck lamp, position the bottom of the shade at eye level to avoid glare. The gooseneck lamp makes it easy to adjust the height of the light source depending on the size of the person using it.

Indirect lighting has become popular over the years and provides a concealed light source, which diffuses the light and eliminates glare, which can be a real problem in causing eyestrain and a number of other vision-related problems.

Installing dimmer switches will allow you to regulate the intensity of the light generated and serves the purpose of making one fixture useable for both older and younger readers.

For the serious reader, a light stand can be a real boon. The stand can be positioned to keep the material at the best distance and angle for optimum reading as well as helping keep it in focus and reduce the strain of holding a book while you are reading. Reading stands are particularly useful for the older reader and those with medical conditions that make it more difficult to hold a book steady for any length of time.

Let common sense and an awareness of your particular comfort level be an important guide in setting up your areas for reading. If you find some of my suggestions just don't seem to work for you, try to discover why and make adjustments accordingly.

A lot of people find it restful and relaxing to read before or as a prelude to falling asleep. There are some special considerations to keep in mind if you are one of these people.

Many sleeping areas use overhead lighting fixtures as their primary source of illumination. First, overhead lighting in the bedroom usually doesn't provide enough brightness to read comfortably and second, overhead lighting provides too much overall room lighting for anyone getting ready to go to sleep. This is a particular problem if you are sharing a room with someone who is not a "snooze-reader".

Here are some other ways to light the sleeping area for the reader. Use a small table lamp positioned on your side of the bed making sure that the shade is low enough to avoid glare, use lamps that are attached to a mechanism that can be swung into just the right position over the reader (a variation on the gooseneck lamp), use a floor lamp with three-way bulbs to decrease the intensity of the illumination and finally, position a fixture on the wall directly above the reader that will cast only enough light to illuminate the book or other reading material.

If you don't sleep alone, your goal is to keep the non-reader in the dark while you are reading. Some strange individuals (self-included) sleep soundly with the lights on or off. If this doesn't cause a problem for your partner, consider whatever lighting works best and even consider a timer that can be reached easily if it shuts the lights off as you are just getting to the part of the book that reveals whodunit.

A few individuals find portable book lights handy. These LED light sources never burn out and generally last up to 20 hours on a set of batteries.

While not a complete or comprehensive guide to lighting for reading, I hope that this brief overview will provide you with some basics to consider.

Bedroom Lamps and Fixtures for Reading

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Let us face it, there are a lot of us who normally grab a book or magazine before we go to sleep. Well, it is different, of course, if you are that tired and too sleepy. Anyway, if you belong to that group of people who reads while on bed, the following tips might give you an idea to know what lighting fixture is appropriate in your bedroom.

The transportable reading lights set on nightstands gives a lot of extensibility. Remember if your hobby is reading even while on bed, the lights must be adjustable to whatever position you want it to be. The lights should have a good shield in order not to see the bulb and will not disturb your partner while enjoying your book.

The headboard lamp is the most functional for reading. The wrong choice of reading light in the bedroom can do a lot of harm to our eyes aside from the inconvenience it gives us while reading. We do a lot of body movements just to be able to see the text; either we turn, twist, stretch or change position to clearly see the content of the page we are a reading. This is the reason why reading lights in the bedroom must be given importance.

Headboard lamps come in a lot of designs and styles.

The burshed steel double arm lamp. This is ideal for those who want to do a bit of reading to get themselves sleepy or before finally falling in slumber. It is beautifully designed and offers the proper lighting you need when reading. The arms can be adjusted to any angle you prefer saving your body from a lot of movements. This lamp is to be fastened on your bedroom wall outlet with a distance of 6 feet.

On the other hand, the clip lamb offers a lot of convenience as you can bring it anywhere you want to. You can fasten it to the headboard so you do not need any electrician or any tools to have it installed.

The table lamp should be placed on a bedside table or nightstand and a little at the back of your head and close to the wall. You can also opt to have a wall sconce situated in the same position on the wall to put off any shadows.

Having a partner with you is another thing. To avoid discussions, make sure to purchase lighting fixtures that will not awaken the other person. You can do this by testing the light first before finally buying it. You do not want the same to happen with you, do you?

Asmall table lamb located on your side of the bed will also take the glare out from your partner. However, check that the lamp can be moved to the angle where the reader is.

Likewise, a 3-way bulb floor lamp can also be used. This will allow you to minimize the brightness of the lights and to place an accessory on the wall just above the reader. Doing this will direct the light to the reading material and not to anything or anyone else.

Lastly, ensure that lighting switches are positioned at the middle of the headboard. Since it is within easy reach, you can turn off your sleeping partner's reading light with no worries.

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Effective Lighting Tips For Your Bedroom

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Bedroom Lighting needs to be carefully thought out and planned because usually the bedroom tends to function as multiple rooms and can require effective task lighting for its various roles. The bedroom can double up as a study, or a television room, or as a reading room and most usually as a dressing room and sometimes it has to function as all these rooms!

Also the bedroom is the first room you see in the morning upon waking and is the last room you see at night before going to sleep. Given that its main function is to be a room of rest,tranquility and comfort, this is one room where getting the lighting right is of paramount importance.

The color scheme of a bedroom has a large role to play in the mood and ambience of the bedroom. And the way in which lighting is used to great effect in a room, will depend on the color of the walls and the furnishings in that room. For instance, bright colors such as orange and yellow are very popular for young children's rooms, pink tends to be more popular with girls, blue is thought of as a cool and calming color. No matter what color the room, by using suitable lighting fixtures, it is possible to change the effect and ambiance of the room by day and by night by simply using different types of lights. An example would be having a blue room - during the day this would come across as being calm and tranquil however, by using color-tinted lamps and warm-colored lighting and having bedside lamps with colored light bulbs, the room can take on a more warm and welcoming appearance by night.

As mentioned earlier, effective task lighting is key to good bedroom lighting and can be provided through a variety of different ways. Fixed fittings are one option but whilst they remove dangling wires and the risk of overturning table lamps etc, they may confine the bed to a particular place in the room. Portable lighting is the other option and effective task lighting in bedrooms can be easily achieved by using adjustable reading lamps near to the bed to facilitate reading or desk lamps for the dressing table areas. It is also possible to use special clip-on reading lights (for the bedhead) or spotlights clipped to a wall shelf or even use a floor standing uplighter at each end of the bed.

If the room does not need to be brightly lit up, then table lamps dotted around the bedroom are sufficient and can create a low-lit, cosy and comfortable bedroom. Usually two light fixtures at either side of the bed and a few table lamps placed on a desk or dressing table will suffice.

It is possible to use the more familiar lighting effects, commonly used in other rooms, to great effect in the bedroom. For example, effective use of picture lights to create specific focus on portraits or paintings hung on walls as well as using uplighters under a bay window to highlight curtains - these methods are just as effective in the bedroom as they would be in the living room or hallway areas.

For more dramatic bedroom lighting effects, consider placing a linear light underneath the bed itself - this results in a beautiful warm glow and gives the appearance that the bed is almost floating. The same sort of effect can be achieved by placing light fixtures under the bottom of shelves.

Therefore, using a variety of lighting fixtures such as decorative table lamps uplighters, pendants and so forth, there are many different effects and moods that can be achieved within the bedroom, making it a warm, comfortable and relaxing room but also one in which you can read, watch TV and get dressed in

Addition of lamp dimmers to bed reading lights

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The reading lights above our bed and under the overhead cabinets are a real nice touch and another example of the Winnie designers doing an outstanding job of placing lights, electrical outlets, cigarette lighter outlets and phone jacks everywhere I could possibly want them.

Having said that, I don't particularly care for the lights they chose for the berth reading lights. When Jane is reading and I want to nod-off into la la land, the bright light that floods over bothers me (and vice versa.)

What to do... One possibility was to use a marine or automotive chart light that would focus the light and not interfere with the spouse. That would be an excellent solution and one that I might still implement. What I decided to try first was to add a 12V dimmer to each reading light to see if a lower light level might be an adequate solution to the dilemma.

 

While at Winnebago for factory service I bought two dimmers that Winnie uses in our bedroom to dim the overhead lamp; they were very pricey at $37.50 each (as of April 2006) however the package shows them to be a King Controls part. Maybe you can find a bargain price on the Internet somewhere.