Comments on: The Current state of Bible reading on the Kindle

By: Ewowt

Ewowt — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:28:51 +0000

I read (I know OLD); however, someone mentioned “the message” version. Please, don’t take my word for it, research and discover that this verssion is “evil” and should NOT be used. It is NOT a bible, it is filled with non-scriptual, unsound verbiage. I know, I recognized some of the text from when I was NOT christian… I repeat it is not a bible and also, scripture warns against adding to or removing from God’s Word. FYI, May God bless you and the Holy Spirit convict you.

By: Tigran Aivazian

Tigran Aivazian — Mon, 30 May 2011 17:13:49 +0000

I have no idea why you say my Hebrew Bible editions have no Table of Content. Of course they do. In fact, two of them — one embedded as a “bookmark tree” (a hierarchical navigation tree of book/chapter/verse levels) and a traditional one typeset on a page with page numbers implemented as hyperlinks. Sadly, Kindle’s pdf viewer doesn’t support PDF hyperlinks, so to go to a particular page you have to enter the page number. And neither does it support bookmark trees (aka “outlines”), unlike Sony or Hanlin V3.

Ah, I understand. You assumed that this is missing from my editions when in actual fact it is the feature missing from Kindle’s support for PDF.

I have typeset about 200 Bible editions (some of these optimized for Kindle) in English, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Aramaic, Slavonic, Armenian, Russian and a dozen or so other languages. Most are freely available, some are not. You can request a DVD with the whole lot for FREE, just visit http://www.bibles.org.uk for instructions…

By: Drayton Benner

Drayton Benner — Sat, 07 May 2011 09:59:12 +0000

C Barnard and Halo, Miklal Software Solutions has overcome the Kindle's limitations with regard to Hebrew and right-to-left and has produced a Kindle Hebrew Bible in Amazon's store as well as a Nook Hebrew Bible. From the book's description at Amazon: Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) is a complete Hebrew Bible in an aesthetically pleasing Hebrew script. It contains all of the consonants, vowels, cantillation marks (accents), and other symbols. It follows the text of the Leningrad Codex as digitized by the J. Alan Groves Center for Advanced Biblical Research. This is the same manuscript underlying Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia (BHS) and Biblia Hebraica Quinta (BHQ). From a review on BarnesAndNoble.com: "One could not ask for a more visually pleasing text from which to read the Hebrew Bible." ~Drayton Benner, President, Miklal Software Solutions

By: Halo

Halo — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 06:07:54 +0000

Found a free web site that can download the entire Torah/Tanakh – Biblia Hebrica Westminster/Lenningrad- pdf file , plus some other Hebrew texts at http://www.bibles.org.uk/ It gives a variety of font styles as well which is great .

No tables of contents, so you have to “scroll” through the entire text (very biblical lol) but it’s a start . Just have to Bookmark the books instead for the Kindle 3

Regards

Halo

By: anthony Baker

anthony Baker — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:22:23 +0000

osnova, Very cool that you can verse jump and chapter navigate. Looks so much better. Buying that now. By any chance are there different versions of the bible with these features? I really like the NKJV and The Message versions.

Thanks!

By: anthony Baker

anthony Baker — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:18:14 +0000

Oh this is a real blessing I found this page. I was so dissapointed when I recieved my Kindle. The very first thing i did was download the NKJV Bible and start reading but was then smacked in the face with the navigational nightmare of working your wat around books and chapters and verses. ugh! Very daunting and extremely lacking in fnctionality. I mean, how does one even find Romans 1:5 for example. Jumping straight to a book, chapter and verse…? impossible! Then when you finally are in the scripture you want to be in, there is nothing on the top of the page telling me where I am, just a criptic location number. Very dissapointing. Bible reading is the only reason why I bought the Kindle in the first place.

At first I was thinking this was the lack of the Kindle. But I am seeing now after reading the above, some of it is because of the bible kindle version itself. osnova , thanks for posting those links. I will check that out immediately and hope it helps. Right now I hate my Kindle. Hoping that will change.

The font adjusting and the way the text looks on the screen is fabulous but the navigation is a nightmare.

By: Jared

Jared — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:42:59 +0000

What you're looking for is an interlinear Bible. Unfortunately, I've not been able to find a good interlinear for the Kindle. However, there are many good resources available as a hardback or paperback. Interlinear Bibles at Amazon

By: C Barnard

C Barnard — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:11:10 +0000

I am looking for a bible for the Kindle in Hebrew as well as English. Any suggestions?

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:42:12 +0000

Here is a free version of the KJV for Kindle. It does have navigation for books and chapters. Sufficient for my uses. If I am going to preach I’ll take my “real” Bible.

http://believingthomas.org/uncategorized/bible-kjv-in-kindle-format-for-free

By: osnova

osnova — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 14:21:30 +0000

Clint,

After my version of KJV (see above), I have just finished converting the NET Bible with all of its 60,000 notes (Greek text and all) to the Kindle format with the Direct Verse Jump navigation. They will be posting it soon to Amazon. If ESV does something similar (or if they ask me to do it), navigation cannot be easier. Each note is hyperlinked within the text. Once you finish reading the note, you can return to the text by pressing “Back” In my version, all cross-references in the notes are hyperlinked to the main text, so it is much easier to jump from verse to verse just by following the hyperlinks and then returning to where you started by pressing “Back.” If you need a new starting position, 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.