Getting fitted wuth the correct frames will help. They will be more comfortable to wear.
I wouldn’t take them off as often.
I got my “readers” online at Zenni. It’s a progressive prescription with 2.50 readers on the bottom, and completely clear at the top. Trivex lenses with all the coatings and expensive (for Zenni) titanium frames were $100 total. They’re readers I store on my face.
More expensive than the $15 readers, but I prefer the progressive, because it means i adjust my head to focus on text at different distances, instead of having to adjust where I hold things to be at the focal point of the regular readers.
My wife does a similar thing, but she prefers bifocals over progressive (and has some astigmatism correction built in, too).
For cleaning, there are three options I use. Homemade lens cleaner in a small spray bottle of 3:1 alcohol:water, and a drop of dish detergent; don’t care about using it as much as I need to, because it costs about $0.35/bottle. Get a container just large enough to hold the glasses, fill it with sink-hot water, and a drop of dish detergent, let the glasses soak for 5-10 minutes. For maximum cleaning, get a $20-30 ultrasonic cleaner, fill it with sink-hot water, a drop of dish detergent, put in the glasses, and let it cycle.
I think the hot water and detergent do about 75% of the work, but the ultrasonic cleaner helps to get grime of the ear pieces.
I’ve been wearing glasses four years now, so I’m an expert.
I’ve thought about progressive. 2.75 allows me to hold my phone about 10 inches from my face.
A pc monitor is further away and requires stronger lenses.
I can read my 42in tv across the room without glasses. That’s nice when I search Amazon Prime for a movie. I had to walk up close before cataract surgery.
Your hair secretes natural oils that will smear your glasses if you push them up on your head.
Most of little particles that cling to my lenses seem to be dandruff. I’m guessing that there’s some small static charge that attracts them and keeps them stuck on.
I think the readers don’t get dirty faster, it’s just that we notice the problem so much more quickly and importantly.
Little details MATTER in reading type. Not being able to make out a really small section of a single line because of a blur/smudge/speck of dirt can turn an “o” into a “c”, an “n” into an “r”, and so on, depending on the particular font. Leaving you to have to literally keep second guessing when “right” turns a sentence into gibberish and you have to backtrack, realize it was actually “night”, and then reprocess the sentence. Breaking the effortless interpretation from seen squiggles to an actual communication of thought that we’ve mostly all enjoyed since, what, second grade?
In contrast, it rarely matters if a tiny detail is lost in a general view. You missed out on the outline of a particular leaf on the tree? You didn’t see that whisker on your dog’s face? So what? You still saw your dog, you saw the tree well enough to enjoy the fall foliage or at least not walk into it.
You make a very good point about fine details in reading. It becomes so frustrating that I sometimes just skim over longer articles.
I always clean my glasses throughly before reading on my phone. Clean lenses imptoves the sharpness of the letters.