Customer Reviews

Holy Bible

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I have several Bible translations on my Kindle (NIV, NET, ESV, NKJV) and I waited for months for the publisher (Thomas Nelson) to finally release the Kindle edition of the NKJV. I went so far as to write to the publisher and was told that they were taking time to make sure they got it just right. The other translations have the table of contents setup so that at the beginning of each Bible book the chapters have links so that you can jump to them. With the NKJV Kindle edition there are no chapter links so to get to Isaiah Chapter 50 you have to page through until you get there. To make matters worse, you can't tell what chapter you are in except on the first page of each. (see the NET Bible which has chapter and verse notation.

This NKJV for the Kindle was recently updated in October 2009 to fix some of the formatting issues present in the previous version as well as enabling chapter navigation. One word of caution regarding chapter navigation is that it works very well for me with the Old Testament but not so well with the New Testament (would take too long to explain). At any rate, I use this Kindle version as my daily reader and use 4 book marks to pick up where I last left off: 1. In the Old Testament 2. Book of Psalms. 3. Book of Proverbs. 4. New Testament.

When I need to study something in depth, I either go to [...] or pull out one of my leather bound Bibles.

Don't at all be afraid to get this bible if you are going to use it as your daily reader. Again, not so good for in depth bible study unless you get really, really good at using the kindle's search feature.

If you need a kindle Bible with better chapter navigation...get this KJV: Holy Bible - The Illustrated King James Bible (King James Version, KJV): The Old & New Testaments, Deuterocanonical literature, Glossary and Suggested Reading. Illustrated by Gustave Dore

yeah the bible is great. But it's alot better if you can choose which chapter in each individual book you want to read. I wanted to read Psalm 106....to do that I'd have to scroll 106 times from psalm 1 to get there. Not convenient if your pastor says " Turn with me please to Matthew 23"...this book is flawed and needs an index for individual chapters in the book. I am taking it off my kindle and rebuying a more usefull one -

I was very pleased with both the price and the quality of the Ultra Slim New King James Version Bible. The print is larger than other bibles I have had and yet it is slim and lightweight enough to carry. I would recommend this book to those with "over 40" eyes. The slightly larger print has reduced eye strain.

As one who has numerous bibles, I read and study from various versions including the NASB, NIV, TNIV, NRSV, ESV, HSCB, and the NKJV. Generally, for easy reading I go to the NIV or its updated TNIV. But for really serious study I go to the NASB and the NKJV.

I love the accuracy of the word-for-word translations which the NASB and the NKJV provides. Though a little more difficult at times to understand, you know they're accurate and true to the original languages.

The huge advantage of this NKJV Large Print UltraSlim Bible is its large print! It is superior to all the other bibles I have maybe with the exception of the Zondervan NIV Wide-Margin Bible. Therefore, for someone like me who is over 60 and wears bifocals, this is a huge plus!

The only thing I don't like about the NKJV Large Print UltraSlim Bible is the typesetting of the words of Jesus. They're printed in red ink of which the coloring is inconsistent from page to page and for some reason does not line up exactly with the rest of the verse(s). But then you have to realize you're not paying a whole lot for this Bible!

This Bible has 1200 pages which includes a 66-page concordance. This is not a study Bible meaning it doesn't have study notes or reference verses. However, being true to the NKJV it includes footnotes where it varies with the Critical and Majority Texts.

As others before me have commented, this Bible is very light, being about 1-inch thick, making it very easy to take just about anywhere. Sure, the cover isn't high quality, but the binding is excellent and I find the Bible to easily lay flat regardless of what page I'm on. That for me is a huge plus!

One more thing, there is very little in the way of margins in this Bible at 3/8ths of an inch all around. So, not easy to write notes. But I have found that you can use a fine-point ink pen and underline at your hearts content and not have to worry about the ink bleeding through! Of all the Bibles I own, this is the only one that I can do this with. This means that the quality of paper used in this Bible is excellent!

The cover is "leatherette" or some such product. Definitely NOT what I envision by the words "Leather Bound." Very flimsy. A good hard bound copy would fare better. The edges were a bit cracked on arrival. The price is good. You get what you pay for. This is a good Bible to just have around the house for reading & reference, not a take to church every week kind of Bible.

The book was not very good quality and we returned it without problem because of our dissatisfaction. The bible itself is always good and deserves five stars, but this particular one is not well printed.

I ordered this Bible because most Bibles the print is too small, but most large print Bibles are too large to carry around- this one is perfect- the cover is called leathersoft- it is so soft and well made, If you are looking for a beautifully made Bible, that will be your faithful companion, this would be a good choice!It is a joy to hold, and not straining to read the type. It has references at the end of the verses and a large print concordance.

This review will simply address the mechanics of this version of the Holy Bible in regards to the Kindle. I will refrain from any comments regarding the nature of the translation, leaving that for those far more learned than myself.

I have downloaded several versions of the Holy Bible for the Kindle and have found this one to be the most difficult to use of any I've looked at.

On the copy I downloaded, the Table of Contents option on the menu is never available. In order to get to the TOC, I have had to simply go to the beginning of the book and page forward a couple of times. This is not such a big deal, it's just not very elegant.

The major problem with this version is the left justification used on the Table of Contents and the Chapter Lists, With the Kindle's cursor on the right side of the screen it is extremely difficult to navigate to any specific book without frequently "missing" your target on the other side of the page.

After you select a specific book you are taken to a list of available chapters, again left justified. Upon selecting a specific chapter (assuming you hit the right one) instead of just opening the selected chapter an additional menu opens up with the chapter listed once again, you have to roll the cursor down one more time to select the chapter (which is the only option). This is redundant and pointless.

My final problem with this version is the verse numbers are exactly in line with the text, making reading (for me) very jarring. This is particularly annoying because the poetic nature of the KJV is really diminished by trying to mentally block out specific parts of the text in order to get a smooth read. My preference is for the verse numbers to appear as superscript above the verse itself. The offset numbers are easy (again, for me) to mentally filter and allow a more smooth read.

I am very interested in finding a "Kindle Friendly" KJV, but for me, this is definitely not it.

This version is still very bad even for the Kindle 2. As one reviewer stated, you can search on Psalm 100 and get there. This is true. That is because each psalm starts out with the words "Psalm" followed by the chapter number. Unfortunately, this is the only book that I tried to search on where that actually worked. The other book with chapter searches did not work, and I tried many of them. This is because the other books don't have the name of the book printed anywhere except above chapter 1. For example, if you were to search on Isaiah 50 as mentioned by another viewer you will get zero results.

This wouldn't normally be an issue if your were reading a novel or most anything else, but many readers of the Bible are continually jumping between different books and chapters whether it be on a Sunday morning while the pastor is teaching or a personal bible study. Imagine having an opportunity to witness to somebody and you have to spend several minutes flipping through hundreds of digital pages to get to the chapter and verse you are after. The absence of chapter navigation is really a critical shortcoming in my opinion.

I also noticed quite a few places where words were not separated "likethey" should be.

The New King James version is my favourite translation to read. I really wish they would have done a better job with this.