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[remadepreacher]

I'm sick of dealing with corruption in Word and Powerpoint caused by links in scriptures cut and pasted into them. Can anyone point me to a searchable ESV without links?

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by remadepreacher

I'm sick of dealing with corruption in Word and Powerpoint caused by links in scriptures cut and pasted into them. Can anyone point me to a searchable ESV without links?

Welcome to posting on MobileRead. I've sent you a little bit of get-started karma.

I am not (nearly) tech savvy enough to know where the issue lies (lay? my grammar not's so great, either. ). However, if it is with the publisher, progress on that may be glacially slow. The ESV is published by a non-profit company (Good News Publishers), although they are the parent company of Crossway, which I have assumed to be a for-profit company. Being a non-profit, Good News Publishers may not have the resources to make useful changes very fast. Just a thought.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by remadepreacher

I'm sick of dealing with corruption in Word and Powerpoint caused by links in scriptures cut and pasted into them. Can anyone point me to a searchable ESV without links?

Try here. It looks like a "pew Bible" to me, and they generally do not come with cross-references, etc. There's not a preview at Crossway.org that I could find, but there is one at Amazon, for the Kindle mobi, of course. There are a few references in the introductory material. I haven't found the ESV in ePub or PDF (yet?).

Good luck.

[DaleDe]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

Important translations that aren't available as ebooks:
Jerusalem Bible
New Jerusalem Bible
New English Bible (not the New English Translation)

In addition to all of these, there are a number of translations from the late 1800s and early 1900s that can be found as scans at Google Books. Some of them have been transcribed electronically, but the transcribers don't usually bother to include the translation notes (the Revised Version of 1885 and Thomson's Septuagint, for example).

The New Jerusalem Bible is available from WordSearchBIBLE as an eBook. There are lots of free Bibles for this platform. Read about WordSearch_Bible in our wiki.

Dale

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

Try here. It looks like a "pew Bible" to me, and they generally do not come with cross-references, etc. There's not a preview at Crossway.org that I could find, but there is one at Amazon, for the Kindle mobi, of course. There are a few references in the introductory material. I haven't found the ESV in ePub or PDF (yet?).

Good luck.

I should have mentioned it, but you may have noticed it anyway if you went to the Crossway webpage that I linked to . . . the ESV must be available at Crossway, and maybe from other vendors, in the ePub and PDF formats, because they mentioned their ESV Bible being available in those formats.

Now the difficulty is getting a preview from somewhere, so you can find an edition that eliminates the scripture citations. You may want to check out the previews at books.google.com to see if any of them might be of help.

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by DaleDe

The New Jerusalem Bible is available from WordSearchBIBLE as an eBook. There are lots of free Bibles for this platform. Read about WordSearch_Bible in our wiki.

Dale

Thanks. It has been a long time since I looked at WORDsearch and I didn't realize that they'd been acquired by Lifeway. I notice that they do have the new revision of the CSB available for free.

As far as the New Jerusalem Bible, I'm looking for something that's an epub, PDF, or something that I can turn into an epub or PDF. Additionally, the version that's available at WORDsearch and Logos is the "Reader's Edition", which has no translation footnotes or paragraphs.

I think I've become spoiled on the combination of Calibre and ereaders. I actually have a bunch of resources for Logos, but I barely use it anymore. I've repurchased just about everything that I want as "generic" ebooks, but there are still a few holdouts. A few publishers, apparently, are OK selling resources for Bible software, but not as regular ebooks (the Ryrie Study Bible is another one on my wish list).

The HarperCollins Study Bible will be available this week, though, which has me pretty excited.

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I should have mentioned it, but you may have noticed it anyway if you went to the Crossway webpage that I linked to . . . the ESV must be available at Crossway, and maybe from other vendors, in the ePub and PDF formats, because they mentioned their ESV Bible being available in those formats.

I don't know about PDF, but if you buy an ebook directly from Crossway, you can download both epub and mobi versions without DRM. The ESV Classic Reference Bible and ESV Global Study Bible are both free, but they also have the embedded links that seem to be causing the trouble in the first place.

[Difflugia]

God or Godless? by John Loftus and Randal Rauser is $0.99. Each chapter is a short discussion of a particular topic in the style of formal debate (opening statement, rebuttal, closing statement). Loftus is an atheist and Rauser is a Christian apologist.

Even though Loftus competently argues his side, the topics are varied enough to allow Rauser to address a lot of theology that isn't normally discussed. I'm pretty sure that Rauser's thoughtful responses are what prompted Baker to publish the book.

eBooks.com
Kobo
B&N
Christianbook (where it's $0.79)
Amazon

[badgoodDeb]

Originally Posted by remadepreacher

I'm sick of dealing with corruption in Word and Powerpoint caused by links in scriptures cut and pasted into them. Can anyone point me to a searchable ESV without links?

We use www.biblegateway.com to look up scriptures, and cut and paste into powerpoint. It's not a whole bible that you can download, but they have many languages and many many versions of bibles.

A backup, with similar caveats, is www.bibleStudyTools.com.

[GtrsRGr8]

I don't think that this has been mentioned before; if so, please forgive.

Amazon has the CSB (v.2) Kindle edition for free right now.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06ZYV8X65/.

I'm interested in reading the preface, but especially reviews by others where they discuss the differences between v.1 and v.2 (prefaces of Bibles are largely publicity, IMHO).

It appears that neither Christianbook, nor Kobo, nor B&N has this (yet?). So maybe this is a limited rollout right now.

[Difflugia]

It looks like the others have it, just not for free.

The "KindleUnpack" plugin for Calibre will unpack the .azw3 file into the epub3 used as the source file, if anyone is so inclined.

Unfortunately, the only reader I've found that does a decent job on Holman's epub3 books is the reader built into Calibre.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

It looks like the others have it, just not for free.

The "KindleUnpack" plugin for Calibre will unpack the .azw3 file into the epub3 used as the source file, if anyone is so inclined.

Unfortunately, the only reader I've found that does a decent job on Holman's epub3 books is the reader built into Calibre.

I completely missed the book at other vendors. Maybe I was focused too much on finding matching covers; I did not see a cover that matched the one for the book at Amazon. But, there again, I could have missed it. Or, the cover could have looked different. Anyway, thanks for the info.

It seems like the HCSB is available free "everywhere" nowadays. Maybe that will be the case eventually with the CSB v. 2.

[Difflugia]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I completely missed the book at other vendors. Maybe I was focused too much on finding matching covers; I did not see a cover that matched the one for the book at Amazon. But, there again, I could have missed it. Or, the cover could have looked different. Anyway, thanks for the info.

It seems like the HCSB is available free "everywhere" nowadays. Maybe that will be the case eventually with the CSB v. 2.

It was a pain to find at Christianbook because they "helpfully" redirect searches for CSB to a marketing page even if you select that you're looking for an ebook. In case anyone wants to watch for freeness:

Christianbook
eBooks.com
Kobo
B&N

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

It was a pain to find at Christianbook because they "helpfully" redirect searches for CSB to a marketing page even if you select that you're looking for an ebook. In case anyone wants to watch for freeness:

Christianbook
eBooks.com
Kobo
B&N

Yeah, I noticed that about Christianbook. I entered "CSB" then filtered for "ebooks" and it sent me to some page of physical books, or something.

I've got to hone my searching skills, I couldn't find the book at either Kobo or B&N. I didn't try at ebooks.com. But your use of ebooks.com has made me more aware of them. If only they had 20% off on all books all of the time, instead of 20% off of only certain subjects for a certain length of time!

But, I learned, a long time ago, to be patient and to wait for a cheaper deal to come along before buying, if I possibly can (I can't relate to these people who decide that they want an ebook, and order it right then at full (discounted) price!

[Difflugia]

I pretty much ignored ebooks.com until Agency pricing took off. Their books are all publisher suggested price and I've only gotten the 20% off to work on a single book. When Agency books are on sale, though, they're typically on sale at ebooks.com, too. Their DRM is strictly ADE, their website makes sense, and they're happy having me download books to my PC without needing a special device, all of which seem too much to ask the others. Christianbook is a close second, but they only have Christian books.

I typically use eReaderIQ for the books that I want. I used to feel guilty because their revenue came from affiliate links, but Amazon killed eReaderIQ's affiliate account, so now it doesn't matter.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Difflugia

I pretty much ignored ebooks.com until Agency pricing took off. Their books are all publisher suggested price and I've only gotten the 20% off to work on a single book. When Agency books are on sale, though, they're typically on sale at ebooks.com, too. Their DRM is strictly ADE, their website makes sense, and they're happy having me download books to my PC without needing a special device, all of which seem too much to ask the others. Christianbook is a close second, but they only have Christian books.

I typically use eReaderIQ for the books that I want. I used to feel guilty because their revenue came from affiliate links, but Amazon killed eReaderIQ's affiliate account, so now it doesn't matter.

When ebooks.com sends out their periodic lists of book subjects whose ebooks are on sale for 20% off, they sure don't give the caveat that it's almost impossible to find an ebook there that qualifies.

Maybe ChristianBook can branch out into secular books one of these days. But, they never have shown any interest in it, that I know of, and I was buying from them long before they were ChristianBook, back in the Puritan and Reformed era. And I doubt that they have the budget for it, anyway. If they've got some spare cash lying around, I think (and hopefully they do, too) that they should use it to make some changes to their website to make it more user-friendly, if nothing else.

I knew that eReaderIQ used affiliate links, because I've always had to remember to truncate that part of an URL before posting the URL on MobileRead. I also was aware that Amazon put the kibosh on that, about a year ago, I guess. Do you object to any website using affiliate links to make revenue? I don't see what would be objectionable--those affiliates, in many if not most cases, provide a valuable service and they can't do what they do for free. And, for some, probably eReaderIQ included, that is/was their only source of revenue. And if you objected to the affiliate links, couldn't you have always truncated that part of the URL before navigating to the product page?