This will not help you any, but one of my favorite movies, Three Days of the Condor, had a scanner that would turn the pages. That was in 1975. It was in the first five minutes of the movie.
I have had a tiny pucker in my right eye for about 25 years. It makes the tops of telephone poles look like Ss, among other things. I had no idea that was an indicator of macular degeneration. I had mentioned it to my eye doctor in the past but he did not seem concerned. I have an appointment with him next week. I am going to bring it up again.
Just use an eyepatch, matey.
Best wishes, FRiend
Shango066 on YouTube uses such a device to convert numerous radio and TV repair volumes (from Sam’s and others).He’s demonstrated such a device in his videos; from what I can tell it works very nicely. He appears rather satisfied with its capabilities.
A long time ago (35 + years), I knew college student who was legally blind who used one of those to read her textbooks. Hers came with a transparent plate to rest on top of a page to remove the curvature. She was legally blind with a little vision on the periphery.
Most of her books were read and recorded by students, but she successfully used that device for books and class hand outs not yet recorded to audio.
She never complained about it and was glad to have it. I think she found any reading tiring as her eyes had to work so hard to get and understand an image from the periphery. But it worked. :D
If the physical act of reading with your eyes is unimportant to you and you’re fine with hearing, think of buying ebooks and an app that reads them out loud. That way, you can “read” while performing your daily chores. If you want to avoid disturbing the people around you with audio they’re not necessarily interested in, get a Bluetooth headset or one of those wireless Bluetooth earphones.
My 96 year old mom is a very talented artist and an author & avid reader. She developed AMD about 5 years ago and it was devastating to lose access to these activities. My sister found an Orcam device that mounts to the side of your glasses (about the size of a jump drive). You point to the text you want to read, it scans the text & converts it to audio. Mom loves that it restores her access to books & letters that people write to her. It’s not cheap but it’s worth checking out.
I am legally blind due to non-age related macular degeneration so central vision is pretty well gone. However, with magnification, I can still read.
I have found that Kindle books work well.
I also have a couple closed circuit tv magnifies that look similar to your scanner. You can place a document or book beneath it and magnify it as much as you like and change the color scheme to suit your needs. The one most used is a desk top with a 24” screen. I found many to choose from on ebay.
Hang in there.
I suggest wait on the surgery and hope that better treatments and less invasive surgeries come in the future.
I went to school with someone (late 1970’s) who wanted to get cut and stitch eye surgery so he could pass the commercial pilots exam.
This was before laser eye surgery came in.
I don’t know what happened, but I would not have had that scalpel eye surgery no matter who was doing it.
Also, since I’m genetically inclined for AMD I take Preservision , a supplement that is supposed to hold off any progression of AMD. Give that consideration as well.
“The images from the left and right eye don’t line up perfectly anymore.”
Would glasses with prisms help? I have a weak muscle in one eye that causes double vision. My glasses have prisms that pull the images back into alignment (mostly). Throw in the bifocals and various coatings, the lenses (only) are a thousand bucks. But, they’re a Godsend.