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Finding the Perfect Battery and/or A/C Powered Clip on Book Light Designs that Light Up Your Books, Hobbies & Crafts

When selected properly, a book light can reduce eye strain by providing excellent lighting while reading, even in the darkest places, and can help to conserve both energy and money. A sturdy clip on book light design can make your light easy to securely attach to your book, book holder, or book stand, and many do double duty as hobby, craft, podium or task lights. Light weight incandescent or LED designs can put just the right amount of light anywhere you need it, without wasting energy or disturbing others around you, like a spouse or partner watching TV.

By lighting your reading materials with just the correct quantity and temperature of light, the right book light can save your eyes from strain and assist your reading in darkened venues. Our eyes require more light as we age, and providing the right amount of light for what we're reading can be a real challenge. Obviously, the best light for reading is natural sunlight coming directly from over your shoulder, but we often need to read when or where such lighting simply isn't available. Hence, the correctly selected book light, one we can use anywhere and anytime we choose, iscan be} an incredible convenience. By then turning off the overheads and lamps lighting things other than our reading, we conserve considerable energy and the money required to pay for that energy.

When making the choice between incandescent and LED designs, three primary concerns include: the different color or temperature of light produced by these two technologies, the cost of acquisition, and the cost of operation over time. Incandescent light sources typically produce a warm, somewhat yellowish or golden-tinged light, and bulbs typically will provide light between 15-25 hours of use and then must be replaced. LED lights create a whiter, cooler light, and many designs are now optimized to approximate the output of light from the sun. Hence, most book lovers find the light of modern LED designs to be more "sun like", producing greater contrast and making all printing easier to read. While replacement bulbs for many incandescent book light designs are generally available in local electrical and hardware stores, and over the Internet, the expense and inconvenience of replacement can really add up over time. Since LEDs provide life expectancies of 10,000 to 50,000 hours, the 10-20% greater initial cost of acquisition quickly becomes irrelevant. Generally, then, LED lights are now the preferred choice over the older incandescent.

Battery powered book light designs are the handiest, because they can be used almost anywhere. Unfortunately, batteries too are a replaceable item, lasting 20-30 hours of use at best, in either LED or incandescent designs. Optional A/C adapters are available for most book lights, and another option is to use a good battery recharger and rechargeable batteries. Most book lights use either AA or AAA batteries, and many rechargeable options are on offer. In addition, if your light is to be used close to an A/C outlet, an optional A/C adapter can be a money saving investment.

Finally, the area of dispersal is also a meaningful consideration when selecting the right book light for a particular application. If your light is only to be used to light a standard size, mass market paperback, a simple LED or incandescent clip on light design will likely 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 can distribute the light over a much broader area. The best way to determine the best design for any particular application will be to test it in actual use. Wherever you shop, make sure your retailer offers both good pre-sale and return service, just in case your first choice doesn't quite hit the mark. With diligence, you can find just the right clip on light for just about any application.