# Share your tips for reading comfortably in bed. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 12, 2009, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-tips-for-reading-comfortably-in-bed/513572 "2009-10-12T20:02:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-tips-for-reading-comfortably-in-bed/513572/21 "2009-10-13T18:20:46Z")
Bushmills on light rocks. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-tips-for-reading-comfortably-in-bed/513572/22 "2009-10-13T18:36:28Z")
I got a really nice booklight this year. It’s not so good for paperbacks, but works wonders for hardcovers. ---
**Author:** ![Sateryn76](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@Sateryn76](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sateryn76)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-tips-for-reading-comfortably-in-bed/513572/23 "2009-10-13T19:20:28Z")
I just read laying on my left side, with the book in front of me in my left hand. Right hand, covered to the shoulder, sneaks out and turns the page. I have a fantastic muscle memory for holding the book (usually a paperback) - my husband says my hand often stays in that forked position once I’m asleep and he removes the book. It’s only a problem when I’m reading a big heavy hardback book, where the heavy right side wants to swing closed. And, I can no longer get comfortable when reading on my right side in a mirrored position…(TMI) When I have a sinus cold, I have to be very careful falling asleep - the left side is so comfortable to fall asleep, my left sinus fills up and gets infected… ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-tips-for-reading-comfortably-in-bed/513572/24 "2009-10-13T19:35:25Z")
In the movie **The Bucket List,** Jack Nicholson’s character wore prismatic glasses so that he could lie flat on his back, head on an ordinary pillow (i.e. his face was approximately horizontal), and read a book he had propped up on his chest. A simple mirror won’t work, since it will reverse and invert the text; thus the need for prisms. Those glasses are for sale all over the web. Anyone tried them? I haven’t tried them yet, but I’m thinking about it. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-tips-for-reading-comfortably-in-bed/513572/25 "2009-10-13T19:57:26Z")
> [@Joe Frickin Friday](#): > > In the movie **The Bucket List,** Jack Nicholson’s character wore prismatic glasses so that he could lie flat on his back, head on an ordinary pillow (i.e. his face was approximately horizontal), and read a book he had propped up on his chest. A simple mirror won’t work, since it will reverse and invert the text; thus the need for prisms. > > Those glasses are for sale all over the web. Anyone tried them? I haven’t tried them yet, but I’m thinking about it. for ones i’ve seen. the field of view is small so you have to keep moving your head or book to read a page. you need to keep head and book still to have focus. focus and tracking seem to be much harder than straight on view. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-tips-for-reading-comfortably-in-bed/513572.md?page=1)