Eyoyo Portable Digital Video Magnifier Electronic Reading Aid 3.5 Inch LCD Screen for Low Vision 2x-25x Zoom Foldable Handle

This item is a great help to anyone like me is loosing their sight.

I got this for someone with failing vision. This person has lost vision completely in one eye and the other is slowly getting worse. I looked at many similar digital magnifiers and most were very expensive. This one is perfect. With it things they can read things that were impossible to read before: the tine print on pill bottles, the expiration dates on food packages, small text in recipes, the fine print on the documents and medical forms. Unlike some I looked at with buttons difficult to read for those with failing vision, the buttons on this model are well placed and well marked so there is not fumbling and confusion in operation It works so well bought a second one as a backup.

My hubby is visually impaired, he doesn’t do a smart phone so this works well for him. He can now read his rx labels, he takes it when we go shopping so he can see prices. Smaller so it fits in his pocket. $ well spent.

I’ve just read a chapter in a book that contains multiple fonts, font sizes and colors, and illustrations, and the magnifier has been excellent. It’s easy to click bigger for reading italics, and back to a lower magnification for the rest. I was worried that this would track poorly, as video-camera readers used to, which is that as you move the reader, the text on the screen would stretch out into gray, and only slowly come back into focus. This magnifier tracks beautifully, even on the largest zoom, and moving quickly. Hooray! It is easy to keep it on the line of text. It took me a couple minutes, and returning to the sale site, to figure out how to pull out the stand, but it works well once you get it. On my book, the foldable stand ran up against the book binding on the right page while reading, so, I put it back down, and it slid over just fine. This opens up a whole trove of books I could not read before, because they were not on kindle (I use text to speech), or in the NILS Talking Book and Braille Library; or as audiobook on hoopla. I am super glad to be able to “read” again! And P.S. the reviewer that said her mom could not insert the USB to charge, hey, lady, do it by feel? You can’t use your eyes for everything!

Everything technical about the item works fine. All the buttons work, and the screen turns on, it's very light weight and compact. It reminds me of the first time digital cameras were first introduced. However, the issue I faced is that for maximum clarity, you have to set the magnifier flat on the surface of what you are trying to read or look at. If you lift the magnifier more than two inches off the surface everything disappears and you cannot see anything. This is unfortunate as it forces me to hunch over over a desk or table in order to see what I'm trying to read. Whereas a free magnifying app that can be downloaded on a typical smart phone allows you to sit comfortably and magnifies what you are reading at any reasonable distance. Since this magnifier must be flat in order to see, it is troublesome with books at the page binding. The binding does not allow the magnifier to remain flat making words unclear and blurry or disappear altogether. Overall, even though the product functions well, I'm disappointed with the confined limitations. A camera/magnifier is only as good as what it can see and how clearly it projects that image.