IHME'S!! I Hate My Eyeglasses!! [Paperback]

Amy Arcand (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 22, 2005

IHME's !! I HATE MY EYEGLASSES !! is currently the only complete consumer guide for optical consumers. By complete I mean that it covers eye exams, eyeglasses (including sportwear, sunglasses and safety eyewear), special needs for kids and seniors, contact lenses, LASIK surgery, low vision, blindness and much, much more. Unlike other optical advice books, IHME also makes a point to tell the secrets of finding the right product at the right price. IHME gives you everything you need to See Happy.

Editorial Reviews

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I unabashedly love this book and highly recommend it to anyone with eyes, or who knows someone with eyes... -- Large Print Reviews

You can be sure that... you are getting the best vision shopping advice from someone clearly passionate about the subject. -- Contact Lens Advisor

From the Publisher

This book is truly unique, offering eyedeas, lookouts and tidbits - plus lots of illustrations, photos and history. A surprisingly easy read.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 302 pages
• Publisher: Lonefrog Books (July 22, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0976977907
• ISBN-13: 978-0976977902
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,443,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A handy guide to options for maintaining and improving one's vision, January 11, 2006

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: IHME'S!! I Hate My Eyeglasses!! (Paperback)

IMHE's !!I Hate My Eyeglasses!! Consumer Guide to Happier Vision is a handy guide to options for maintaining and improving one's vision, covering everything from eyeglasses to sports sunwear to contacts, refractive surgery, and tools for the partially sighted in cases where vision cannot be corrected. Written by a licensed optician, IMHE's !!I Hate My Eyeglasses!! covers virtually anything and everything the lay reader needs to know in clear prose, with black-and-white photographs, glimpses of history, easy quick-reference appendices and more. Of especial interest is the advice for the nuances of eyeglass shopping - finding just the right frames for one's needs and budget. A handy tear-out shopping guide rounds out this excellent resource for anyone who has less than 20/20 vision.

4.0 out of 5 stars Best book of its type on the market despite amateure production, April 24, 2010

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E. Dean Butler (Worcestershire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: IHME'S!! I Hate My Eyeglasses!! (Paperback)

This is the most accurate, most imformative, most useful book so far on buying eyeglasses, contact lenses and eye exams. The author covers virtually everything anyone will ever want to know -- and more.

Buying eyeglasses, contact lenses and even eye exams is fraught with unseen pitfalls. Many, many customers really do get "taken" by being talked into or prescribed into buying expensive, overpriced products totally unnecessarily. If you read this book before shopping for eyeglasses, contact lenses or eye exams, you will be far less likely to be ripped off, and you will certainly save money.

It is a darn shame that the production of this book is horribly amateurish. The layout, artwork, chapter titles and cover art are not just poor -- they are horrible. The production values do not do justice to this book. Additionally, while the author really is very knowledgeable, there are a number of areas wherein even the author has been duped by the traditions of this industry. For example, although the author makes it clear that the large chains are cheaper than the traditional private practice retailers for identical goods, she really has little idea of just how little the large chains pay for the goods they re-sell. In otherwords, the differences between the large chains and the tradiional retailers is a lot larger than revealed in this book.

The author does point out (bravely) that, in general, tradtional optical retailers are an inherent conflict of interest -- in that they presctibe what they sell. She points out that the ethics of many traditional optometrists are rather questionable. At the larger chains, the optometrists do not do the selling and do not profit from what is sold. They are independent of the retailer -- usually eliminating the conflict of interest.

I hope this author can find a better publisher for the next printing. The book deserves far more skillful treatment.

But -- the information for buying eyeglasses, contact lenses and eye exams is in the book -- so just ignore the poor production values.