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Caution: soap box. Hope this doesn't land the thread into the "hall of shame".

Laridian's Bible reader software is a ton better than OliveTree's--which, no matter how many times OT updates it, remains glitchy, slow, and lacking in basic features like full-screen and effective highlighting.

But Laridian remains in my dog-house until they publish a decent Catholic Bible. I don't care if it's NAB, Jerusalem, RSV-CE, or heck, even an RSV with deutero-canonical/apocryphals tacked to the back. But no, they say--you should just be satisfied with the NRSV, they say. Never mind the thousands of politically-correct 'paraphrases' you have to filter through in that version.

It would be irritating enough if the conspicuous absence of a widely-used Catholic Bible in Laridian's library were due simply to market forces. What gets my goat is that there is is a market for it to which they've been pretty deaf ever since they've opened shop. At least OliveTree has tried to answer that call.

I'll go ahead and let it be known--I think the only reason for this is that Laridian has no interest in meeting the Catholic market on their own terms. Of course, this is entirely within their rights; after all, nobody expects Paulist Press (a Catholic company) to publish a set of the complete works of Luther anytime soon. I only wish--selfishly, I'm afraid--that I could use Laridian's Bible Reader with a widely recognized 'Catholic' Bible.