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It does what it is designed to do - provides a good, clear magnified image. The size is just right (for my uses), it has a comfortable handle and the clear glass lens provides a nice, sharp magnified view. Highly recommended

Good magnifying glass even if a bit small. The smaller size makes it fit in a regular sized purse, which I find handy when I encounter a restaurant with almost unreadable printing. It is great to have in my kitchen drawer to enable me to read a recipe or insructions on a package whose print is too small to make out.

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Perfect! A certain national tool store chain used to have these a couple of years ago, with the real glass lenses like this one, but since has replaced the lens with a "funhouse mirror" low quality plastic lens. Well look no further, this item is just like that original. Is heavier, since the lens is glass, which is great. That is how you can tell, along with the optical quality of the lens being great. Magnification isn't great, but does the job if what you are after is reading the fine print on the label of just about any product these days. Ha even the frickin EXPIRATION DATE on many food products is too small to read (and printed in grey or black) without one of these. Recommended! I just bought four more.

In ancient times you could subscribe to the Book-of-the-Month club and get the two-volume version of the magnificent Oxford English Dictionary, with each page of that venerable work shrunk to quarter-size and printed on each page of the new edition. It came in a dark-blue slipcover which had a little drawer up top with a rectangular magnifying glass in it -- you needed it to read the tiny print. Fast forward 40 years or so, and the OED, now in its second edition, is available online; the BOMC has apparently re-invented itself a few times but is still a going concern. The magnifier, however, is long gone. My own somehow got away from me some years ago, so I bought this one to replace it. It's a sturdy and useful magnifier, equally good for scrutinizing the details of a medieval manuscript hand and deciphering the fine print on a package. Now that I'm getting old and my eyes, apparently having decided that they've seen enough, are getting dim and fuzzy, I find it to be more and more useful. And the reminder of my student days when I toted around my giant two-volume OED is a pleasant bonus.

Works as expected

Sturdy and heavy but I seriously doubt it is 5x power. Maybe 2x or 3x. It does permit reading extremely fine print on drug use instructions, recipes, and Government mandated warnings.

My husband uses this everyday, he absolutely loves it.

Simply a great magnifier that is clear and crisp with no distortions in the glass used. It's the second of this kind of design that I have owned and I highly recommend it as the price is also very reasonable as well.

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