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Old 12-13-2009, 09:54 AM   #16
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I downloaded a sample of the ePub version of the Zondervan NIV Bible from the BN Store to see what it looks like.

Finding verses seems pretty good now versus the NIV I bought from Sony 2 years ago. Sony has the new Zondervan now as well.

I may just buy that after my PRS 900 arrives.

Zondervan has it for $ 2.00 less than Sony in ePub version. I wonder if that download would work with my Sony PC software and the PRS 900?

The Franklin BIB 475 is best for this purpose but its battery runs out in 2 hours. The Sony PRS 900 battery is supposed to last for 2 weeks.
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I downloaded a sample of the ePub version of the Zondervan NIV Bible from the BN Store to see what it looks like.

Finding verses seems pretty good now versus the NIV I bought from Sony 2 years ago. Sony has the new Zondervan now as well.

I may just buy that after my PRS 900 arrives.

Zondervan has it for $ 2.00 less than Sony in ePub version. I wonder if that download would work with my Sony PC software and the PRS 900?

The Franklin BIB 475 is best for this purpose but its battery runs out in 2 hours. The Sony PRS 900 battery is supposed to last for 2 weeks.
Unless we are looking at different NIV bibles, the sample I downloaded from BN was NOT in epub format but in .pdb format.

This is the link I was looking at and downloaded the sample for to see if you are experiencing something different from me: Link

I want to re-iterate that Zondervan's NIV bible will be highly functional on any touchscreen ebook reader device because you will just be able to touch the hyperlinks and go directly to your verse.

On a PRS-300 and PRS-505 and likely any non-touchscreen device, it will be, for all practical purposes, unusable. On a PRS-600/900, you will be fine.
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Old 12-18-2009, 04:10 AM   #18
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I noticed the Canadian Sony ereader store has a different cover image, and different ISBN.



I hope it navigates just like the sampler that I got from B&N

I was gonna buy it from the Sony store since I thought it would be in Canadian dollars.. but when I went to check out.. "All prices in USD"

Booo..
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Old 04-30-2010, 07:44 AM   #19
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Although I will be talking about Kindle, bear with me.

I have made a number of Bibles (KJV, WEB, NET) in the mobi format for the Kindle. See discussion for KJV here: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=59871

In all of them, I am using three separate navigation methods: hyperlinked TOC, joystick jump between books, and what I call Direct Verse Jump (DVJ). DVJ is actually pretty nice on the Kindle. For me it is faster to open any verse in the Kindle than in the paper Bible.

DVJ requires text input so I do not know how it would work on Sony readers. Will touchscreen model work? To try you can take the sample from the link above and convert it to epub with Calibre.

I have sent a request to Zondervan for permission to issue an NIV edition with DVJ. I need to see how big royalties they would require.

Let me know if something like this would be useful for PRS.

You can also experiment with a full Bible in Chinese, which I released here for free.

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?p=679688
I took ChineseUnionGig5.prc and used Calibre to generate both epub and pdf files. The pdf file kept the Chinese characters well but lost the index hyperlink (although it kept the blue hyperlink color) the epub file seemed keeping the hyperlink ( although it might point to different locations) but lost the Chinese Characters to ???
I don't know if anyone especially Calibre can help.

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Old 04-30-2010, 10:23 AM   #20
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I took ChineseUnionGig5.prc and used Calibre to generate both epub and pdf files. The pdf file kept the Chinese characters well but lost the index hyperlink (although it kept the blue hyperlink color) the epub file seemed keeping the hyperlink ( although it might point to different locations) but lost the Chinese Characters to ???
I don't know if anyone especially Calibre can help.

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Old 07-19-2010, 08:01 AM   #21
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Chinese Union Bible PDF with Index Jump table free download:
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Old 07-21-2010, 02:43 AM   #22
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is this the latest one with the easier navigation mentioned ? http://ebookstore.sony.com/ebook/zon...00000000237670
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Old 09-19-2010, 09:11 PM   #23
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Although I will be talking about Kindle, bear with me.

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I have sent a request to Zondervan for permission to issue an NIV edition with DVJ. I need to see how big royalties they would require.



https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...d.php?p=679688
I would be very interested in a NIV with DVJ. I have the NET with DVJ but often in church and Bible class when others have a NIV I prefer to follow along with the same translation but it is too cumbersome to navigate!
Keep us posted!
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Old 09-20-2010, 01:27 PM   #24
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I thought I would give some feedback on the NIV Holy Bible that I first purchased in EPUB format directly from zondervan.com and then the LRX version from the Sony eBook store.

The navigation is very very poor requiring you to use the navigation buttons at the bottom of the PRS-505 to move from book to book and then use the same navigation buttons to go from chapter to chapter.

As an example, to go to Psalms 100, you literally have to click over 100 times to get there!

Thinking that the EPUB from zondervan.com may have been an anomaly, I go ahead and purchase it AGAIN in LRX format from the Sony eBook store thinking that the experience would be different in large part from the feedback from one of their customers that said that navigation was much improved (Link Here). I couldn't imagine how much worse navigation could have been previously.

I was really hoping that the navigation would be equivalent to the great work that Sherman did with the KJV version found here.

I could only pray that an NIV version with easier navigation can become available or eventually upgrade to a touchscreen model of the Sony ebook reader.

Wish I could have had this feedback before purchasing my 2 unusable versions. I can't imagine trying to use this in church to find a verse quickly.
It didn't have a Table of Contents and then chapter links at the beginning of each chapter? The NIV Study Bible I bought in ePub has both. It is still clumsy to navigate though as it is a reference book in which people often want to turn to a specific Book, Chapter, Verse. search this forum there is a guy who has created a better navigation system for Bibles. I'm not sure which versions he has done.
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Old 12-16-2010, 10:43 PM   #25
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So whats the verdict? can I buy a epub NIV Bible and be able to havigate it?

I am thinking of buying a Sony PRS 650 soon
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Old 12-17-2010, 02:21 AM   #26
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I think I understand. I used to have PRS-500 but it was lost/stolen. Maybe I should get another Sony reader and work on epub books.
Yes please! I have the NET Bible on my Sony 650, and navigation is just awful.

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Old 01-01-2011, 02:01 PM   #27
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Hello, all. I just purchased a PRS-650 and am looking for a Bible.

I know this thread is a bit dated, but has anyone tried the NIV which was published on 12/21/2010? The description claims to have improved navigation.

Also, has anyone found an ESV version? I noticed there used to be one available from Crossway, but it is now available only for the Kindle.
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Old 02-08-2011, 11:49 AM   #28
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Bump.... I'm wondering the same thing about the NIV Bible sold either directly from Zondervan or on the Kobobooks site
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Old 02-08-2011, 01:01 PM   #29
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Zondervan just released in Dec a new NIV version specifically formatted for ereaders. It has built-in table of contents navigation and hyperlinks that make it really easy to jump to specific chapters. I would recommend it. Much better than other editions that I've used. I bought it from Borders which is powered by Kobo.
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Have you tried the recent version with the 4 level table of contents on their ftp server? I thought it was pretty nice.

The versions I found most useful were the fully annotated version and the standard version with the four level table of contents.

File:NETBibleNoteless_4.epub
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File:NETBibleNotes.epub
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I really like the way that the notes are hyper-linked so that, after you jump to an annotation, you can just tap the annotations header number in the note itself, and jump right back to the verse that you were reading when you jumped to the footnote.

Also for the non-annotated version, the newer NETBibleNoteless_4.epub version linked above has a MUCH nicer Table Of Contents.
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