Difference between Reading Glasses and Prescription Glasses

Customers may be confounded with reading glasses and prescription glasses; some of them even mistakenly regard them as the same eyewear. Indeed, there are some differences between these similar eyeglasses.

First of all, reading glasses are for the old while prescription glasses are for the ill. It is understandable that the consumer group of reading glasses is much narrower due to the particular design of such glasses. When speaking of the prescription glasses, we may naturally associate them with the myopia and the hyperopia whereas when mentioning the reading glasses, the first impression is the one who is diagnosed by presbyopia due to the old age. So from this case, you can see the distinction between reading glasses and prescription glasses lies in the different customers in ages.



What’s more, the function of these two eyewears based on the different buyers is totally different. Reading glasses are user-friendly for the senior citizens to sew their outfits, do some chores and read the newspaper, but in their daily lives, they don’t have to wear the reading glasses in case of vertigo. However, prescription eyeglasses are the indispensable friends to the nearsightedness. They have to depend on the prescription eyeglasses to have a clear view of the world. Therefore, except the time they sleep, the high myopia has to wear the prescription glasses all day long.



Last but not the least; neither of them is sold at the same price. Generally speaking, the price of reading glasses is even lower than that of prescription glasses. Because most buyers of reading glasses are retired from their workplace which means that they have to live on their lean salary. So the shop owner prices the reading eyeglasses lower with less fancy decoration that can make it possible for the old to buy cheap glasses.

In sum, reading glasses are not the same thing with the prescription glasses. If an old man needs an eyewear, please consult the shop assistant to pick up a pair of suitable reading glasses for him.