Yup, every person with normal sight eventually needs reading glasses - the transition being some time in the thirties or fourties.

While there are workarounds like bright lighting and big typefaces, they don't apply easily to a handheld. Extremely bright screen backlighting would eat more batteries than desirable, a large screen would make it a laptop, and at least the primary steps towards optimizing web sites for the far sighted would have to happen at the authors - the current fashion of three-column layouts with fixed pixel ratio sidebars defies any attempt to increase the font size to a suitable scale...

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