Lets face it, people read in bed.  Some people read so that they can fall asleep.  Some people wake up in the middle of the night and then read themselves back to sleep.  Some people just want to read in bed.  Well, what about that other person that sleeps with you?  Is it fair to them to keep the room lit up like the middle of the day? 

Not really, so what are the alternatives?  I found bedside lamps, headboard lamps and book lights attached to the book, your glasses or a headband.

I tried them all and here is what I found:

Bedside lamps, because of their distance and position from your book, just need to brighten the room with too much light to properly illuminate your reading material.  Both your reading environment and your partners sleeping environment are not exactly optimal.

Headboard lamps are better but they still give you that annoying feeling of having a spotlight behind you.  If you wear glasses, that spotlight also shines onto the back of them, reflecting uncomfortably into your eyes.  Not exactly focusing the mood and your attention on your book!

Book lights mounted on your book are so close to your book that the light pattern is not uniform in intensity across the page.  This causes eye strain.  Additionally, the light beam moves with every movement of your body, every page turned and every movement of your bedmate.  It is amazing how distracting this is.

And talk about distraction caused by light beam movement, how about the lights that get mounted on your head somewhere.  It feels like being a coal miner.  Besides, imagine falling asleep with some contraption on your head, not very comfortable and they wake you up when you move in your sleep.

Talking about falling asleep with the light on, what about the fact that most of these book lights mounted on the book, or you, are battery powered?  Sure you could power them with a cord, but then you have a cord to wrap around your neck while you are sleeping.  Sounds like fun to me!

In both of these pictures, the juraf is turned ON.  Notice that when you view the juraf's head from the side or rear, you do not see any radiating light from the LED bulb.  This means that direct light from the juraf's LED will only go where you point it.

The beam is just where you want it, and no where else.  Not in your eyes, your bedmates eyes, or your dogs eyes.  This is the main reason I invented the juraf since I'm the one that is trying to sleep in our household.