The strange thing is that I read without any glasses whatsoever. However, I couldn’t find find the bookshelves without my regular glasses. I need “reading glasses” to read things like my computer monitor, say, from a distance of two to three feet. I use my regular glasses to do everything else.
Take something hard to see to read and go to Walgreens and/or Walmart and find the reading glasses that make that selection easy to read. I had to have reading glasses after cataract surgery so I have a prescription pair of reading glasses and bought two extra sets from Walgreens to be sure I would have reading glasses if one or two pair were damaged. I cannot read now without reading glasses - that is the result of having that surgery. My long distance sight is 20/20 so do not have to have them to drive but cannot read jack without reading glasses.