The shelf
Everything here is bought through Amazon, and we may earn a commission if you do. It’s marked on every link. None of it changes what the comparison tables say, and nothing on this page is a substitute for buying the frame itself from a proper optician.
Accessories
The things that make glasses work properly. Cheap, unglamorous, and the reason a frame lasts three years instead of one.
No prescription needed
Readers, blue-light and sunglasses you can buy without an eye test or a prescription number.
Reading
Eyewear turns out to have a literature. Some of it is very good.
Why search links rather than products
Each link runs an Amazon search for a category we think is worth owning, rather than pointing at one specific product we’ve never handled. Individual listings go out of stock, change seller, and sometimes turn into a different item entirely under the same page. Recommending one of those by name would be pretending to a confidence we don’t have. When we’ve actually used something, we’ll link it directly and say so.