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Difflugia · 04-05-2017, 10:23 PM

It's been a while since any new study Bibles have excited me, but a couple have.

The NIV Proclamation Bible: Correctly Handling the Word of Truth is $2.99. This one doesn't have study notes, but the articles and book introductions look interesting enough for $3. I don't recall seeing it on sale before.

The The NIV Zondervan Study Bible is on sale for $6.99. This one has been on sale before, and in fact, I already bought it. I bought it again, though, because it turns out that both Bibles are available as PDF at eBooks.com, which I much prefer when reading on a PC. Since Bibles are one of the things that I read on a PC most often, I sprang for the second copy.

If you buy either Bible at eBooks.com, you can download both the epub and PDF files to ADE. Alf's tools will take care of them, but note that there's a bug in the current version that causes it to fail with the Zondervan Study Bible PDF. I fixed the bug on my own setup, though, and submitted a bug report with enough detail that hopefully the official release should be fixed soon.

The Proclamation Bible
The Zondervan Study Bible

Or, if you only want one format, there's Amazon

On another note, I just figured out (though I'm probably late to the party) a cool feature of Calibre's epub reader that's useful for study Bibles. Recent versions of the epub reader are smart enough to figure out when you're clicking on footnotes and it opens the footnotes in a second window. Since other epub software makes you flip back and forth between the verses and the notes, it's sometimes hard to read them effectively. If you want to try it out, go to Preferences->Behavior. Under "use internal viewer for:" check the box for EPUB.

That handy feature doesn't work with all of my Bibles, but it does with most of them and especially the newer ones. If, like me, you've been using ADE to read your Bibles, then it's worth the switch.

04-05-2017, 10:23 PM	#341
Difflugia Testate Amoeba Posts: 3,049 Karma: 27300000 Join Date: Sep 2012 Device: Many Android devices, Kindle 2, Toshiba e755 PocketPC	It's been a while since any new study Bibles have excited me, but a couple have. The NIV Proclamation Bible: Correctly Handling the Word of Truth is $2.99. This one doesn't have study notes, but the articles and book introductions look interesting enough for $3. I don't recall seeing it on sale before. The The NIV Zondervan Study Bible is on sale for $6.99. This one has been on sale before, and in fact, I already bought it. I bought it again, though, because it turns out that both Bibles are available as PDF at eBooks.com, which I much prefer when reading on a PC. Since Bibles are one of the things that I read on a PC most often, I sprang for the second copy. If you buy either Bible at eBooks.com, you can download both the epub and PDF files to ADE. Alf's tools will take care of them, but note that there's a bug in the current version that causes it to fail with the Zondervan Study Bible PDF. I fixed the bug on my own setup, though, and submitted a bug report with enough detail that hopefully the official release should be fixed soon. The Proclamation Bible The Zondervan Study Bible Or, if you only want one format, there's Amazon On another note, I just figured out (though I'm probably late to the party) a cool feature of Calibre's epub reader that's useful for study Bibles. Recent versions of the epub reader are smart enough to figure out when you're clicking on footnotes and it opens the footnotes in a second window. Since other epub software makes you flip back and forth between the verses and the notes, it's sometimes hard to read them effectively. If you want to try it out, go to Preferences->Behavior. Under "use internal viewer for:" check the box for EPUB. That handy feature doesn't work with all of my Bibles, but it does with most of them and especially the newer ones. If, like me, you've been using ADE to read your Bibles, then it's worth the switch.