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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Before you purchase, read this.,
By Kariba (Vancouver, BC) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Essential IVP Reference Collection: The Complete Electronic Bible Study Resource (CD-ROM)
There are two elements to this package -- the contents of the books from IVP and the software from Oak Tree which is necessary to read the books.The books are a good collection of reference works, written from a generally conservative, evangelical position. I have no complaints about them and the price for the electronic version compared with the print version, makes this a good deal. The software from Oak Tree is another matter. The version Amazon is selling has Accordance v.6, which does not run with the latest Mac OS Lion. However, even if you're running an earlier version of OS X, you may have problems with font corruption. Currently 4 of 14 of the modules (books) on my computer suffer from this, meaning that the headwords in the dictionary are a collection of random letters. This is a known issue and Oak Tree has a program that's supposed to fix it on their website. I ran it and still had font corruption. I manually went through my fonts, removing duplicates and reinstalled the software. Still font corruption. I contacted Oak Tree and their "helpful" suggestion was that I purchase the latest version of their software for $69 or repurchase the whole IVP Reference Collection from their site. Oak Tree sells the IVP Reference Collection with the latest version of their software. Given that all I want to do is be able to access the books I purchased, I don't see why I should have to upgrade my software or re-purchase my books. Blame here lies with both IVP (for selling a package with outdated software) and Oak Tree for sticking it to customers who are caught by a problem with their software. My rating for the package is one star because of the software, without which the contents are useless. In summary, while I can recommend the content of the package, I can't recommend purchasing it because of unresolved software issues. It also serves as a cautionary tale about the dangers of purchasing e-books that depend on proprietary software for you to access them. If it's not a PDF, you may find yourself in the position I'm in now, a few years down the road. |
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The Essential IVP Reference Collection: The Complete Electronic Bible Study Resource (CD-ROM - December 5, 2003)
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