[GadgetMan]

Originally Posted by crimsonsky

Have you looked at Pocket E-Sword?

I am very familiar with Pocket E-Sword (http://www.e-sword.net/pocketpc/index.html). It is indeed a fantastic program that offers much better mutliple book management than antiquitated Pocket Bible. For that reason I have been using it as my primary Bible program for a long while now.

Unfortunately, the only Catholic Bible they offer is several centuries old (Douay-Rheims Bible). Nothing modern so far...

One thing that puzzles me about Laridian: They have offered New Living Translation Bible for a long while now. That means that they got into agreement with the publisher. Why then did they decide not to offer the Catholic version of New Living Translation :?:

Cheers,

[GadgetMan]

Originally Posted by crimsonsky

Have you looked at Pocket E-Sword?

I am very familiar with Pocket E-Sword (http://www.e-sword.net/pocketpc/index.html). It is indeed a fantastic program that offers much better mutliple book management than antiquitated Pocket Bible. For that reason I have been using it as my primary Bible program for a long while now.

Unfortunately, the only Catholic Bible they offer is several centuries old (Douay-Rheims Bible). Nothing modern so far...

One thing that puzzles me about Laridian: They have offered New Living Translation Bible for a long while now. That means that they got into agreement with the publisher. Why then did they decide not to offer the Catholic version of New Living Translation :?:

Cheers,

[MacPPC]

Those who like PocketBible but find that Laridian doesn't offer their favorite Bible version, commentary, or other reference work should check out the Bookbuilder package. It allows a user to create Bibles, reference works, and devotionals that are functionally identical to those that Laridian publishes. It will require some work to prepare the material, but the possibilities are endless. There's even a pro package for those who want to commercially publish their work.

[danlmosher]

I love e-sword & pocket esword!!! Many of you seem to know more about this than I so please help me if you can. Have you heard of STEP libraries? Is there a STEP_reader for Ppc's ? There are a lot of really good books I would love read w/my ppc.
Thanks for any help or comments.

[crimsonsky]

Originally Posted by GadgetMan

I am very familiar with Pocket E-Sword (http://www.e-sword.net/pocketpc/index.html). It is indeed a fantastic program that offers much better mutliple book management than antiquitated Pocket Bible. For that reason I have been using it as my primary Bible program for a long while now.

Unfortunately, the only Catholic Bible they offer is several centuries old (Douay-Rheims Bible). Nothing modern so far...

One thing that puzzles me about Laridian: They have offered New Living Translation Bible for a long while now. That means that they got into agreement with the publisher. Why then did they decide not to offer the Catholic version of New Living Translation :?:

Cheers,

Laridian is as close-mouthed as Apple (and yes, I use a Mac!) about their plans for new stuff. When MyBible 4.0 came out for the Palm, it literally came "out of nowhere." And the improvements in the program were astounding.

I shouldn't be surprised if Laridian is working on an update to Pocket Bible and turn around and drop it on us out of the blue, as it were, one day.

They are, however, open to suggestions (although they probably won't make a sound about whether they'll include it in a new version or not) and perhaps it would behoove Catholics to ask them to provide a modern Catholic version in their lineup. I think I'll ask them for a Spanish language Bible as well.

Don

[pivaska]

There is a step lib in Pocket E-sword. Right now it is on the PC version.

[martin_ayton]

While we're on the subject of what Laridian ought to do, it ought to sort out the missing entries in the Strong's Hebrew Concordance. If you have one, check out the gap between #834 and #843. If you want a real example of this, go to Psalm 1:1 and try pulling up the Hebrew for 'blessed' (#835).

I raised this with Laridian months ago, shortly after I bought the concordance. They said they were aware of the problem and were following it up. So far, I have not seen an update. Neither have I seen a notice against the concordance warning people before they buy it that it has some missing entries.

Come on Laridian - you can (and you should) do better than this.

[martin_ayton]

And now... they have done better. Given that I posted the rant, I thought I'd better post a reply to state that Laridian have now put up an update to the Strong's Concordance which fixes the gaps. It took them a while, but I understand that that was due to copyright issues and therefore out of their direct control. Kudos to Laridian to sticking with it until the problem was fixed.

Oh, and since you've probably read through the thread to get to this - Laridian now have a Catholic Bible and a Spanish Bible in their library.

[patrickwest]

Originally Posted by GadgetMan

Skoobouy,
I personally would love to see the New Jerusalem Bible (with all the book introductions and footnotes) available from Laridian.

It has been sometime since the quoted post so I'm wondering if there is anyone making PocketPC usable version of the NJB?

Patrick