At the grocery store today, I saw a display of these GE Emergency Lanterns on sale for $10 a piece. I bought two of them, because the package said they would give 16 hours of lighting on 4 “D” batteries. I was hoping they would be bright enough to read by. They are if you keep the lantern fairly close to the book. The light quality is much better than candlelight.
Of course, now that we have emergency lighting by which we can read, I feel certain we won’t lose power the rest of summer. We already had several hand pump flashlights, but although they are good for making sure we don’t kill ourselves in the dark, and are safer to use than candles, they aren’t good for reading.