Ok, so I've been doing a lot of reading here and at pool solutions and, being a new pool owner, I'm somewhat suprised to hear the printed opinion that test strips shouldn't be used, period. Are they really THAT inaccurate? Is this opinion bias from some sort of pool care purism?

I could understand perhaps wanting to make sure you did a weekly formal testing, but what about for the daily check? (Also suprised to learn that I need to be checking daily with the summer sun/heat, thought weekly was going to do just fine). Are some strips better than others?

Thanks for the help!