greg asked for examples... so i've got myself a little program here which displays the images in a scan-set, with an edit-field alongside for the text... you can thumb through the scan-pages by clicking buttons or using the cursor-keys... you can view the text for just one page or load in the text for the entire book... (it will auto-scroll to the appropriate point as you summon up each new page-scan.) for this demo version, which i will upload as soon as greg gives me the information, i used jon noring's "my antonia" example... the app looks in its folder (or "directory", for you p.c. people) for the image-file and displays it if it finds it there. if it doesn't, it downloads it from the openreader site, and then displays it. very fast on fat pipes, maybe not so fast if you're still on dial-up... if you want, you can download all the images in one fell swoop while you're out to lunch or taking a nap. (or overnight with a modem.) once the file for a page is downloaded once, it's saved on your machine for your later use... (or, if you want, you can download the images in the single .zip file on the openreader site, and then unzip them yourself into the folder where you have placed this demo-program.) this demo -- which i dubbed "banana-cream" -- is a cut-down version of my proofing program which you might remember is called "pudding". i threw in some pudding-style features for y'all, for the fun of it. the app finds and highlights quoted passages. some people try to tell you that you should use "curly" quotes in your text. what a pain in the rear! have the viewer-app do that conversion automatically for the reader -- if the reader requests it. that's a lot easier. after all, converting quotes isn't rocket-science; most word-processors can do the job nowadays. (except far too many of them make mistakes! i feel my routine does a better job. but i have included it in this program because if it _does_ make any mistakes, i expect that you'll tell me, and then i can improve the logic as necessary.) i also threw in a text-to-speech thing, because i believe it's a neat way for you to do proofing. (but sorry, that feature won't work on linux.) there is also a powerful "find" capability, so you can view all the occurrences of the search term, and then click to the specific one you want to, or step through them one-by-one to see 'em all... adjustable text-size. full-screen no-menu feature. history capability to track back through your trail. and header-finding to create a table-of-contents that it installs in a menu on the menu-bar for you, plus the ability to jump through the chapter-titles. let me think, i know i put something else in there. oh yeah, a simple-but-powerful _linking_ capability, so the table of contents, for instance, becomes live. this demo-app is also a cut-down version of "give", my viewer-program, where this linking capability is far more full-featured. but i thought you might like a taste, a taste of banana-cream pie... i don't feel like releasing "pudding" quite yet, but i _will_ take feature-requests for "banana-cream". if y'all can put together a list of specifications that impresses me, i'll be happy to implement them and we can go from there. on the other hand, if you're not interested, then i'll spend my time elsewhere... -bowerbird