How do reader eyeglasses make text sharper?

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I forgot my eyeglasses at home yesterday and struggled to read my phone all day. I enlarged the text on my phone to help but that just made it bigger but still looked blurry. If readers just magnify, why is the text sharper too?

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If you can’t see sharply close to, your eye’s closest focus distance is too far away. Adding a small positive lens in front (or less negative if you are already short sighted) brings the close-focus point nearer to you, so reading distance is within the range that your eye can adjust focus to see clearly.

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