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Originally Posted by GadgetMan
Skoobouy,
I could not agree more with you. I personally would love to see the New Jerusalem Bible (with all the book introductions and footnotes) available from Laridian. I even asked them for it years ago, but obviously my request was ignored.
I think it is a shame that they do not want to publish a Catholic Bible. I think this is a result of agenda they decided to follow. Of course it is their choice, but still a shame. What are they afraid of?
I agree that OliveTree's reader is the worst of all Bible readers on the market (I just hate the rudimentary and ugly GUI), but at least they made NAB (incl. introductions and commentaries) available. I am thankful that they had the will do to so.
In summary, Laridian sucks on two fronts: FIVE years with no new version (I do not count minor bug fixes, I am talking about a new version with new and improved features), and no Catholic Bible.
Shame!
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Have you looked at Pocket E-Sword? It's a fantastic program with tons of free modules available, including, I believe, Catholic Bibles. In fact, I also use Pocket e-Sword as well as Laridian because Laridian doesn't offer any Spanish language Bibles (or any foreign language for that matter) and since I'm heavily involved in the Hispanic ministry of my church and speak Spanish myself, I needed a Spanish Bible.
Most of the stuff Pocke e-Sword offers is public domain, but it's a great collection of classic commentaries, lexicons and dictionaries, and they do offer some material that you have to purchase. I use both - Laridian for the modern commentaries and dictionaries, but e-Sword is in a lot of ways a much better program - you can highlite, comment, view parallel versions, etc. And it's free (donations accepted, though).
There' also Thomas Nelsons eBible for PDA (in both Palm and Pocket PC versions). However, I'm not sure they offer Catholic Bibles (easy enough to check on their site -
www.ebibleforpda.com).
Don