eBook Readers & Accessories

Go into any book superstore or online book site and you'll find a dizzying array of products meant to do one simple thing: light up the pages of your book in the dark. There is a big market for solutions to situations where we can't just turn on lamp on our bedside table. We've got sleeping spouses with a different body clock, plus trains and planes where everyone else is trying to sleep or watch a movie.

Early book light designs suffered from large bulbs and large battery packs, making them something easily left behind when it came down to making hard packing choices. Compact LED bulbs changed all that, however, and most lights are now light and easy to carry.

Designing a good book light is still not a science, however. It needs to be bright enough and flexible enough to work for a variety of book sizes, yet be compact enough to work outside your own bedroom. The book lights featured here all take different approaches to the challenge, some in innovative ways, some by just tweaking the standard clip-on light design. All slip easily into your bag for that next journey.