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osnova · 10-30-2009, 10:53 AM

Great news!

I have just finished converting the NET Bible with all of its 60,000 notes to the Kindle format with the Direct Verse Jump navigation. The file is almost 14 Mb. I was surprised to find out that the Kindle supports all Greek characters out of the box, so you will be able to see them in the notes. Hebrew characters were not so lucky (the Kindle does not support them), so they will be mostly represented by Latin transliterations. All original formatting has been preserved (paragraphs, regular text, poetry, citations from OT in NT, titles, etc.)

They (Biblical Studies Press, the copyright holder) will be posting it soon to Amazon. Once they do and I have the link, I'll post it to the Mobileread. The cost will be about $5 if I am not mistaken.

The navigation, as always with Osnova, cannot be easier. A detailed hyperlinked TOC. Each note is hyperlinked within the text. Once you finish reading the note, you can return to the text by pressing “Back”. All cross-references in the notes are hyperlinked to the main text (and most abbreviations as well), so it is much easier to jump from verse to note, note to cross-referenced verse, just by following the hyperlinks and then returning to where you started by pressing “Back.” If you need a new starting point, all you need to do is enter something like “jn.3.16″ or “1co.13.4″ in the search window and press twice on the “find” icon and you are there. Yes, I have changed the abbreviations from the KJV version to make them shorter/faster to type (now the abbreviations will be listed in TOC for easy reference; thanks to WT Sharpe for the suggestion). I'll have to update the KJV to include the improvements.

Oh, you can also jump between books/sections by pressing the joystick right or left.

10-30-2009, 10:53 AM	#25
osnova Kindler of the Flame Posts: 582 Karma: 646016 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: US of A Device: K DX,3,KT,KP,KF, KFHD; Nook C, PRS600, iPad, Xoom, N900, N810, Zaurus	Great news! I have just finished converting the NET Bible with all of its 60,000 notes to the Kindle format with the Direct Verse Jump navigation. The file is almost 14 Mb. I was surprised to find out that the Kindle supports all Greek characters out of the box, so you will be able to see them in the notes. Hebrew characters were not so lucky (the Kindle does not support them), so they will be mostly represented by Latin transliterations. All original formatting has been preserved (paragraphs, regular text, poetry, citations from OT in NT, titles, etc.) They (Biblical Studies Press, the copyright holder) will be posting it soon to Amazon. Once they do and I have the link, I'll post it to the Mobileread. The cost will be about $5 if I am not mistaken. The navigation, as always with Osnova, cannot be easier. A detailed hyperlinked TOC. Each note is hyperlinked within the text. Once you finish reading the note, you can return to the text by pressing “Back”. All cross-references in the notes are hyperlinked to the main text (and most abbreviations as well), so it is much easier to jump from verse to note, note to cross-referenced verse, just by following the hyperlinks and then returning to where you started by pressing “Back.” If you need a new starting point, all you need to do is enter something like “jn.3.16″ or “1co.13.4″ in the search window and press twice on the “find” icon and you are there. Yes, I have changed the abbreviations from the KJV version to make them shorter/faster to type (now the abbreviations will be listed in TOC for easy reference; thanks to WT Sharpe for the suggestion). I'll have to update the KJV to include the improvements. Oh, you can also jump between books/sections by pressing the joystick right or left.