A copyholder is a device that holds the hand written or printed material being typed by a copy typist

Copy typist

A copy typist is someone who specialises in typing text from a source which they read.-Professional overview:Copy typists learn to touch type at a high speed, which means they can look at the copy they are typing and do not need to look at the keyboard they are typing on.The source, or original...

. They were used in the past with typewriters and are now used with computers and word processors like Writer

OpenOffice.org Writer

OpenOffice.org Writer is the word processor component of the OpenOffice.org software package. Writer is a word processor similar to Microsoft Word and Corel's WordPerfect, with some of their features....

 or Word.

Some copyholders stand independently whilst others are attached to CRT

CRT

-Medicine:* Capillary refill time, the rate at with blood refills empty capillaries* Cognitive Retention Therapy, a dementia treatment* Cardiac resynchronization therapy, a treatment for heart failure** CRT-D, an implanted cardiac resynchronization device...

 based computer monitors. They can support entire booklets or a single page. Elaborate varieties can even be adjusted by height or angle and some come with rulers and guides that appear over the front of the page.

A copyholder is also someone who holds land by means of copyhold

Copyhold

At its origin in medieval England, copyhold tenure was tenure of land according to the custom of the manor, the "title deeds" being a copy of the record of the manorial court....

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For reproduction rights of written and other works see copyright holder.