Re:Not just cost, but optics (Score 1)

Observations from the field: The LED Christmas lights we bought for $3 per strand are plenty bright and give off an icy white-blue light. This bugs my husband, who thinks they're too cold, but the color reminds me of icicles so it seems appropriate to me. In my search for an LED light fixture for reading in bed (not something that clips to a book) I found dim and expensive (above $40 US) LED lamps at Home Depot -- I could barely tell they were on. The light dept. employee told me that LED technology wasn't good enough to produce decent amounts of light. In contrast IKEA has an extremely bright lamp codenamed JANSJO ($30 US) in both wall-mounted and table configurations. It produces a very bright, white circle of light broad enough to light an open book from a couple feet away.