RE: Daily life tweak: Book Lamp

beacon_dave — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 16:12:19 GMT

That looks like a very useful modification. There are two other problems I find with such lamps though:

with smaller books you tend to end up with more curved pages on one side and more flatter pages on the other so with a single lamp you tend to end up with more specular reflections on one side and more diffuse reflections on the other. It perhaps needs two light heads which can be adjusted independently.
I can never get the clamp to sit well on the page, especially for the first half of a paperback book when it tends to be located on the flimsy more curved left side of the book ( in order to allow you to still turn the right hand pages over ). Alternatively you clip it at the next chapter on the right side allowing you to turn a chapter's worth of pages before readjusting, but then you tend to get the hot spots where it has now distorted the page...

genebren — Sun, 31 Oct 2021 14:26:02 GMT

Very cool hack to an existing product. Perhaps you should approach the company with your updates to their product?