Product Description

The new, high-tech, smaller, lighter, brighter, "itty bitty"® booklight. Paperback Edition.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13062 in Kitchen & Housewares
• Brand: Zelco
• Model: 10030
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.80" h x 5.60" w x 7.20" l, .3 pounds

Features

• Lighter and smaller than original Itty Bitty book light
• New design provides brighter light
• Conveniently switches on automatically when lamp arm extends
• Includes compact high-tech light and battery pack
• 5-1/8 inches when collapsed

Amazon.com Review
The Volume 2 Itty Bitty book light by Zelco is a welcome refinement of a great original. By scaling back the footprint of the clip, the size of the light's hood, and the heft of the materials, Zelco has made this lamp sleek, compact, and practically weightless. Though slightly less sturdy than the original, the Volume 2 is still bright and strong, great for fatigue-free reading in a darkened room. The bulb, mounted on an adjustable telescoping arm, switches on automatically when the arm is extended and off when it retracts. Clipped securely onto the cover of your book, it shines only on the pages, not on your sleeping bedfellow. With a battery pack for four C batteries, the Volume 2 includes an 8-foot connection cord, a heat-triggered safety fuse, and a spare bulb. Compatible Zelco AC adapters are also available. --Emily Bedard

From the Manufacturer
Improve on the itty bitty Book Light? No way! Unless you happen to be Zelco, the creator of the original, classic, award-winning itty bitty booklight--the smallest, lightest, brightest, best-selling booklight of all time. So, it was up to Zelco to create a new, better 'itty bitty' Book light. It's Volume 2. Smaller, lighter and brighter than the original--and with a new high-tech look, it promises to be a runaway bestseller with a whole new generation of readers. Even the storage book it comes in is smaller, more compact, than the original. Better for today's faster moving, mobile reader. If you loved the fast selling classic original you're really going to love Volume 2. The package includes a battery case (4 "C" batteries not included) and an extra bulb.

About the Company
Zelco is world renowned for well-designed, high-quality, innovative products. We have won many design awards for our products. We are probably best known as the innovators of the popular "itty bitty" Booklight. We also design and manufacture many other useful products for a wide range of personal uses. To give you the best possible product, Zelco always combines tried and true concepts with rigorously-tested new technologies, materials and designs. .

Customer Reviews

good looking design but very poor quality
I cannot go to sleep without reading. My wife, on the other hand, goes to sleep in 60 seconds except if there is a light on. So you can understand why we both thought that this book light would be a gift from the gods:-)

Unfortunately it did not turn out to be so. My wife actually gave me the vol.1 light first, as a gift. The first few hours were great: the tool is light, VERY adjustable, and reasonably well put together. However, the bulb burned out approximately 6 hours later. I took me several hours of searching over a couple of months to find a replacement, which burned 2 hours later. I did not have the time to buy a relacement bulb again for a while and the book light went back into a drawer.

I later bought the booklight vol.2 (this model), which is also quite a handy and adjustable design. After about 10 hours of use, the connection between the light and the power adapter stopped working. That was it for the second light.

Finally, my wife bought me a second booklight vol.2, which I plugged in immediately. Bulb burned up in 1.5 hours. Only replacement bulb I had burned up in another 2 hours.

So that's it for me: $100 and 3 successful purchases got me about 20 hours of total use - that's $5 an hour! This light adjusts well and looks good but its reliability is so poor that I have to give it a thumbs down - avoid at all costs.

Best book light, but get the "Hardcover"
I've tried virtually every book light, and so far this is the best all round. I tried one with an LED bulb, because the regular bulbs don't seem to last too long (perhaps burn hotter when using the AC adapter?), but the light from the LED was not sufficient for comfortable reading. It's also nice that the light and battery units are separate: makes it easier to clip to the book. The only problem is not with the product, but the fact that amazon.com is selling the "Paperback" version here, which does not include the AC adapter. The "Hardcover" version, that includes the AC adpater, is, at present, available at the same price or cheaper elsewhere. UPDATE 2008: The version that includes the AC adapter is available on Amazon at a lower price than this one (without adapter).

A huge improvement over the original!
I've tried most of the other lights and this is the best I've used.

I've used this version (#2) nightly for over a year and only replaced the bulb twice. The construction is better than version #1 -- no more broken solders. The light is brighter than the original, but the light cover is also larger and enables a good (not excellent) containment to keep my sleeping partner, sleeping.

The biggest problem lies in the arm, which droops. However, a quick turn of the screws to tighten the hinge and I'm back in business. The AC adapter has lasted well and I use the battery (4C's) when I go camping -- the battery pack lasts 4-6 looong reading nights and I save $$$'s using rechargeables.

I'd like a longer lasting bulb -- the flourescent looked promising until I realized the batteries are contained in the lamp; I've found, in other lights, that the extra weight can be a real pain when reading paperbacks.

It may not be perfect, but it's a heck of a lot better than the alternatives!