Awhile back I had inquired about bifocal contact lenses for replacing reading glasses. I got some good feedback here. Well, I tried some out, and they work very, very well. I now have good closeup AND faraway vision for the first time in about 5 or 6 years. I am extremely nearsighted, so the standard contact lenses were overcorrecting at close range, forcing me to use reading glasses over top of them. I have now discarded the reading glasses.

These contacts work on the principle of a lens that corrects for different distances as the lens goes out from the center, so to speak. The eye just naturally recognizes that part of the lens which is giving the best resolution at any particular distance, and ignores the rest. Or perhaps I should say, the brain ignores the rest.

Anyway, it works great. I can recommend these lenses highly to anyone who can handle wearing soft contact lenses.

Thanks to those who helped me out on this. It has turned out to be a very good solution.