It's a very small, two-page notebook. It pops up very quickly, compared
to most Zoomer applications. You can make it a Desk Accessory, so it has
its own little window that can sit on top of another application, like the
calculator does. You can copy and paste into and out of it. (I reported
a problem with copying from TextReader into Lector yesterday; I don't know
what the problem then was, but it works now.) It's $5.00 shareware and
worth much more (IMHO).
For me, the best thing about it is how quick it is to invoke; it comes up
quickly enough that I can use the Zoomer as a substitute for a pad of paper,
which I couldn't do before (the notebook is slow to come up, and then you
have to get to the right page; you can spend 20-30 seconds just getting
ready to write. With Lector, you just launch it and five seconds later
you're writing. If you need to keep what you've written, just paste it into
the notebook at your leisure.).
The only drawback is that it keeps the text in the state file; that means
that if you end up having to reboot, you've lost what you had written. But
it's still probably the most useful single application I have on the Zoomer.
-- William M. Miller, wmm@setech.com, wmm@world.std.com Software Emancipation Technology, Inc., +1 (617) 863-8900 20 Maguire Rd, Lexington, MA 02173 FAX: +1 (617) 863-5441