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The 2013 edition of the Holy Bible contains all of the study aids contained in the 1979 edition and includes revisions to the study aids, several new photos, updated maps, and adjustments to the chapter headings. The style and format of titles, tables of contents, abbreviations pages, the Topical Guide, and the Bible Dictionary have been standardized to improve the reader’s experience; however, the adjustments have not been so extensive as to require members to purchase the new edition to stay current with either the Church curriculum or personal study.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00BMWE99S
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (February 25, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 25, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 28872 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 12824 pages
Reviewer: George
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good. Official LDS version
Review: I say this is an official LDS publication because it's linked to from the Church's site. It has footnotes, which make it a bigger download.Anyway, other than the issues I'm going to mention below, this is a really great e-book. It's up-to-date with the latest LDS edition (it is the latest LDS edition, in fact). It actually has the official photographs and maps, as well as the topical guide, Bible dictionary and such. It runs very well on my Kindle Fire 2.Now, before you download this and review it with one star saying The Gospel Library app is better, you should keep these things in mind:* The Gospel Library app is an app. It's not a Kindle Book. You can't use the Gospel Library app from the Kindle Cloud Reader or a regular Kindle (Kindle Paperwhite, Kindle Touch, Kindle Keyboard).* You can't turn pages on the Gospel Library. You have to scroll. That can be great, but I prefer page-turning for faster reading.* The Kindle App is faster, including with making notes and stuff.* It's very hard to highlight things on accident in Kindle books. I like how the Kindle doesn't do anything permanently just by selecting text, but brings up buttons there that then do it.* You might want an isolated icon (the picture of the book you click on to open it) for your book, separate from the whole Gospel Library. It's just nice, sometimes, especially to put in your favorites menu. You've got to navigate differently in the app.* It's different. It's just not the same thing.* You can always have the Gospel Library app and this book. There's no need to be down on one because the other exists.* It's not THAT expensive. If you're broke, just do a little work on Amazon's Mechanical Turk and it's paid for.* If you use Kindle Freetime, your child will have access to your same LDS account settings on the Gospel Library. They have their own notes and marks on Kindle books, and they won't affect yours. While we're talking about kids, remember, and I'll say it again, that it's difficult to highlight stuff on accident here. Most people (not just kids) I've lent my Kindle Fire to for using the Gospel Library app have made accidental (or purposeful) highlights all over the place because they like to set a finger on the screen without realizing it (and without knowing it's going to have unintended consequences). I could see this frustrating people a lot.Now, before you review this and say that such and such blog has the books for download for free:* I think that blog is offline, now.* You should consider whether it was authorized to offer those downloads in the first place. If it wasn't, then it's copyright infringement (for the non-public domain materials, at least, and I believe the chapter headings and footnotes are not public domain). The Church may or may not care, but without permission, it's not authorized. I have no idea if those were authorized.* You can't read them on the Kindle Cloud Reader, which is in my opinion, one of the best ways to read e-books. (Although if you manage to successfully email them to your Kindle email, they'll show up in your docs, and the Kindle Fire reader will, fortunately, load it (I believe regular Kindles are supposed to do that, too). I say 'fortunately', because I've tried loading scriptures on other e-readers and they were really slow. The Kindle reader renders them very quickly. I said, 'if you manage' because I tried sending a Bible to it, and it failed. I think the file was too large or something.)Now, before you review this and say that the Church offers this for free:* That's kind of true, but you still can't access it on the Kindle Cloud Reader. Hopefully they'll change that so it'll work in future. AND, you still have to email it successfully, which hopefully will work for you (but it failed when I tried it, probably due to its size or something, as smaller items have worked).Issues (I don't mention these to be critical, but in the hopes that improvements may be made, in future, and for the benefit of those wanting to know all the features and issues):Here are some problems with the footnotes:* When doing dictionary lookup on a word (on the Kindle Fire 2) with a footnote on it, it includes the footnote letter as part of the word. So, it doesn't work. The Kindle Cloud Reader does not have this problem, fortunately. :)* The Kindle Cloud Reader doesn't raise the footnote letters (the Kindle app for the Kindle Fire 2 does raise them, however). This may obstruct reading, but you can get used to it, with some effort. The official Triple Combination with footnotes does not have this problem; so, I imagine this is going to be fixed.Here is a solution for the publishers, if they choose to implement it:* Get rid of the letter indicators in the verse and just use hyperlinks. Leave the letter indicators in the actual note. However, also have the word the link is on in the note, much as in the Gospel Library app. It may seem a sacrifice, but it's actually a fair trade for what you get in return.Example:"34 A new commandment I give unto you, that ye /love/ one another; as I have loved you, that ye also /love/ one another....34a. love: ...b. love: ..."As an alternative solution, we and also the publisher could lobby with Amazon to fix the two issues (which are not the publisher's fault, as far as I'm aware).While we're at it, we should lobby for the ability to link to other books on the Amazon cloud within a book. Amazon would like that because it would encourage more sales (but they need to understand that it would increase sales, first). I mean, if you link to books you don't have, you'd be brought to a page to buy them when you click the link. A lot of people would be willing to buy those, I think. That way, we could have all the Gospel Library books separately (without the extra load time for each) and still be able to instantly cross-reference. They would probably want to have the links not associated with location numbers, however, or that would mess things up when people submit new editions of their books and such. They also need to ensure that it links to specific sections of the book, rather than just the book generally (I think we can already do that to some extent, though I could be wrong).One mean-time solution to the lack of inter-book linking ability is to have the book link to the Gospel Library stuff in the web browser, online. That's not perfect, but it's a lot better than no links to outside books.Some other things to know about:* Margins are narrower than the default with Kindle Books. This seems to be purposeful. I just set mine to allow the most text on each line and it looks normal again.* The font face is hard-coded and can't be changed (just the size).* Downloading and pinning to the Kindle Cloud Reader takes quite a bit of time, but if you're just reading it, it opens fairly readily.* It does not have links to each verse at the beginning of each chapter, but it does have links to each chapter at the beginning of each book (which is more important).* I have no idea how well this works on regular Kindles, like the Kindle Keyboard, Kindle Paperwhite and Kindle Touch (just my Kindle Fire 2 and the Kindle Cloud Reader). I'd really like to know, though, since I want to get a regular Kindle one of these days.* Footnote information is at the end of each chapter. This is kind of nice, since when you click a link it doesn't take forever to travel there and back. Plus, you see all the information after you read each chapter. A link to skip that, and on to the next chapter might be nice, if you don't want to look through it, however.* The italics in the chapter headings show up on the Kindle Fire, but not on the Kindle Cloud Reader. I'm not sure why. I'm sure Amazon will fix that, eventually.Now, as for my review of the King James Bible, I think it's awesome. It's true, as far as it has been translated correctly. I highly recommend the Old Testament Institute manuals as a companion study for it. They make a lot of things clearer about the Law of Moses, and address problems people often have with the Old Testament (such as why they did this and that). I don't know if Amazon carries them, but they're in the Gospel Library and you can get them from the Institute website. I also recommend another book (this one's not free): Joseph Smith Translation: Every Revision in the Old & New Testaments (by Kenneth and Lyndell Lutes). That e-book stalls sometimes at the beginning on my Kindle Fire 2, but it's a great reference and well-done for comparison study.

Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I love the cross references
Review: What can you say. It's the Bible. I love the cross references, footnotes and the extensive index that helps me find ANYTHING I'm looking for. When I want to study a particular topic, the index (topical guide and Bible dictionary) makes it easy to find every scripture to do with that subject. I get a broader reading and interpretation of specific principles when I can read EVERYTHING that the Lord has said on the topic.

Reviewer: shopper
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Resources and Dictionary.
Review: Free and well done

Reviewer: David Ray
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: The Bible is the Word of God
Review: Anyone who says this isn't a "Christian" Bible obviously hasn't read it yet. It testifies of Christ many, many times. Not only is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints a Christian church, but it is the ONLY church on earth that has everything that the primitive church had: apostles, prophets and revelation, among many other things. Not only that, but it is the only church on earth that has the full name of JESUS CHRIST in its name. We celebrate both Christmas and Easter. Even if that isn't enough proof for you doubters, the fact that we end every single prayer in the name of Jesus Christ should. The Jesus Christ of the Bible is the same yesterday, today and forever, and He is the same one that members of The Church of JESUS CHRIST of Letter-day Saints worship.There will probably still be some doubters; there always are. But I've done my part of trying to convince the doubters that they're wrong. I hope everyone will study the Bible and come to the conclusion that it is indeed the Word of God.

Reviewer: T. L. Adams
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Love digital copies of scriptures!
Review: This is a great set of digital scriptures. It is easy to use, nicely laid out, and makes it so easy to take my scriptures everywhere. I love the way the words that have footnote references are highlighted so you can link to the references with a touch of your finger. It's also really nice to have multiple pages open when I am studying by topic or preparing a lesson. Great set!

Reviewer: Donna
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: If we sit back and do nothing we are no better than the athiests
Review: When I went to purchase The Bible a warning came up that it was inappropriate material for Amazon. We need to do something or the Bible will be outlawed before my great-grandson has a chance to read it. But at least there was a cancel button beside the place where you would comment on why it's offensive. They need to add a place where we can comment on why it's not offensive. If we sit back and do nothing we are no better than the athiests.

Reviewer: J. Hoffman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Holy Bible Review
Review: I love the Bible. I consider it the word of God and use it's words to guide my life. It's a handbook and everyone values a handbook. The stories all contain a pattern for each of us in similar circumstances. We all have Goliaths in our life, (I Samuel 17) do we not? We can use the same principles to conquer our challenges that David used. What of the beautiful example of love recorded in Ruth? Where else can we read of the life of Jesus Christ recorded by some who walked with him? Wonderful book to be read from always.

Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: I would suggest all churches should use this Bible sense the Catholics and the Mormons went back to the original record to get t
Review: When the Catholics (since they hold most of the copyrights on the King James Version of the Bible), and the Mormons made this Bible for the LDS Church to use. It is the most expensively cross reference Bible in the world today. I would suggest all churches should use this Bible sense the Catholics and the Mormons went back to the original record to get the best Bible possible. No King James Bible has ever been translated as good or as perfect as this KJV of the Bible. It's kind of sad that the Catholic church doesn't even use it.