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delphin · 03-05-2011, 08:06 PM

I have also had problems with several EPUB Bibles (including a few that I downloaded here on Mobileread) so I am not surprised that you ran into this.

The full Bible is one of the largest commonly read texts, and is already stressful for a portable ereader, and some study versions with annotations triple or even quadruple that amount of total text.

Hopefully, in your case, the folks who sold you that Bible can get you a fixed version, or at least refund your money.

The problems with the Bibles I downloaded were caused by how the EPUB file was formatted internally. The Bibles that were causing problems were formatted internally by splitting it on bible chapters, which was a nice simple way to do it, but which caused the EPUB reader to have to deal with an EPUB which was split internally into over 6000 separate parts!

I reformatted one of them (the KJV Bible) so that the EPUB was split internally a little more reasonably, and posted the fixed version over in the Mobile Read downloadable ebooks forum.

In case the folks you are dealing with can't fix this issue for you, here are some links for free EPUB Bibles that are known to work on the Sony Readers -

First here's the link to my fixed KJV Bible -> Fixed EPUB KJV Bible

This King James Version is pretty bulletproof as far as the Sony readers is concerned (TOC, Text Searches, etc all work fine)

For a modern text Bible, the one from www.bible.org is pretty usable on the Sony

EPUB version NET Bible with 4 level TOC

The above link is for the non-annotated version. There is also a nice annotated study version at the above link, but it doesn't have the 4 level Table of contents yet like their non-annotated version, so BenChen created one which you can download here ->

EPUB NET Bible with full annotations and 4 Level TOC

I have found that the above NET Bibles work fairly reliably, though I have had a few problems with the fully annotated version, which has almost 7000 pages, while doing searches. This can ALSO lead to the dreaded "Page ERROR" lockup, and when this happened, I had to use a paper-clip reset to fix things so I could continue reading (powering down without a reset would just return back to "Page ERROR" when power on again) but by avoiding most searches, and looking up sections using the TOC instead, they did work pretty reliably, so these bibles are probably your best bet for use on the Sony.

03-05-2011, 08:06 PM	#4
delphin Evangelist Posts: 434 Karma: 346901 Join Date: Dec 2010 Device: SONY PRS-650	I have also had problems with several EPUB Bibles (including a few that I downloaded here on Mobileread) so I am not surprised that you ran into this. The full Bible is one of the largest commonly read texts, and is already stressful for a portable ereader, and some study versions with annotations triple or even quadruple that amount of total text. Hopefully, in your case, the folks who sold you that Bible can get you a fixed version, or at least refund your money. The problems with the Bibles I downloaded were caused by how the EPUB file was formatted internally. The Bibles that were causing problems were formatted internally by splitting it on bible chapters, which was a nice simple way to do it, but which caused the EPUB reader to have to deal with an EPUB which was split internally into over 6000 separate parts! I reformatted one of them (the KJV Bible) so that the EPUB was split internally a little more reasonably, and posted the fixed version over in the Mobile Read downloadable ebooks forum. In case the folks you are dealing with can't fix this issue for you, here are some links for free EPUB Bibles that are known to work on the Sony Readers - First here's the link to my fixed KJV Bible -> Fixed EPUB KJV Bible This King James Version is pretty bulletproof as far as the Sony readers is concerned (TOC, Text Searches, etc all work fine) For a modern text Bible, the one from www.bible.org is pretty usable on the Sony EPUB version NET Bible with 4 level TOC The above link is for the non-annotated version. There is also a nice annotated study version at the above link, but it doesn't have the 4 level Table of contents yet like their non-annotated version, so BenChen created one which you can download here -> EPUB NET Bible with full annotations and 4 Level TOC I have found that the above NET Bibles work fairly reliably, though I have had a few problems with the fully annotated version, which has almost 7000 pages, while doing searches. This can ALSO lead to the dreaded "Page ERROR" lockup, and when this happened, I had to use a paper-clip reset to fix things so I could continue reading (powering down without a reset would just return back to "Page ERROR" when power on again) but by avoiding most searches, and looking up sections using the TOC instead, they did work pretty reliably, so these bibles are probably your best bet for use on the Sony. Last edited by delphin; 03-05-2011 at 08:14 PM.