[Faith-talk] Bibles for download

[Sharon Ballantyne]

Hello all,
 
This was posted on another list pertaining to Bibles availability. These
appear to be free downloads and his format availability suggests that
people could download to various more portable formats than a shelf full
of Braille.
 
I do have the NRSVfrom Olive Tree on my pacmate but do find it quirky to
navigate. It did require a separate download of scripts designed by
someone who had bought an olive tree product and found problems. I think
with recent upgrades to pacmate the scripts are now old being created
for version 2. something or 3. and the release version for Pacmate is
now 4.1. However I am so non-techy about that sort of thing, I am not
sure.
 
The oremus Bible browser works really well if you are looking for Bible
passages on the net. I can download up to five hundred verses and I have
found they move well into Microsoft word and search tools while on the
Oremus Bible browser site are excellent with JAWS, in my experience.
If you do download any Bibles from the site below,, please provide some
feedback as to your experiences.
 
Blessings,
Sharon
snip---
I don't know about Olive tree, but there are tons of bibles at 

 <outbind://29/www.biiible.com> www.biiible.com which can be downloaded
in MS Word or in PDF format. They 

work great with the Pac mate, but the only problem is that the chapters 

aren't separated so you can't do a search for chapter 2. They list
chapter 

numbers exactly the same way they list verse numbers, which would be
fine if 

they numbered verse one after the chapter number but they don't. I think


the idea is that if you like the bibles they have, you can download some


kind of software, I'm not sure--but they have bibles you won't find
anywhere 

else, like the amplified and New Living--and these downloads are all
free. 

They're full Bibles, so they are a bit sluggish with the Pac Mate, but
it's 

not bad at all really, especially since I can carry seven bibles with me
now 

whereas before it took a half a shelf to hold one.

God bless ya.

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Hello all,
 
This was posted on another list pertaining to Bibles availability. These appear to be free downloads and his format availability suggests that people could download to various more portable formats than a shelf full of Braille.
 
I do have the NRSVfrom Olive Tree on my pacmate but do find it quirky to navigate. It did require a separate download of scripts designed by someone who had bought an olive tree product and found problems. I think with recent upgrades to pacmate the scripts are now old being created for version 2. something or 3. and the release version for Pacmate is now 4.1. However I am so non-techy about that sort of thing, I am not sure.
 
The oremus Bible browser works really well if you are looking for Bible passages on the net. I can download up to five hundred verses and I have found they move well into Microsoft word and search tools while on the Oremus Bible browser site are excellent with JAWS, in my experience.
If you do download any Bibles from the site below,, please provide some feedback as to your experiences.
 
Blessings,
Sharon
snip---
I don't know about Olive tree, but there are tons of bibles at
outbind://29/www.biiible.com
www.biiible.com
which can be downloaded in MS Word or in PDF format. They
work great with the Pac mate, but the only problem is that the chapters
aren't separated so you can't do a search for chapter 2. They list chapter
numbers exactly the same way they list verse numbers, which would be fine if
they numbered verse one after the chapter number but they don't. I think
the idea is that if you like the bibles they have, you can download some
kind of software, I'm not sure--but they have bibles you won't find anywhere
else, like the amplified and New Living--and these downloads are all free.
They're full Bibles, so they are a bit sluggish with the Pac Mate, but it's
not bad at all really, especially since I can carry seven bibles with me now
whereas before it took a half a shelf to hold one.
God bless ya.