Mobile Ministry Magazine

eBible Could Change Things
Hope that many of you are having a good weekend thus far. For myself, I am settling into the weekend and hoping to get a good deal of rest and refreshment throughout.

About a week ago, we did a post on eBible. Well, today I was finally able to cash in on the invite to the beta of eBible (sent from Bob @ MobileRead) and found some really neat things that could really work for a great deal of people with just a few changes.

For starters, I am accessing eBible over my Treo's Blazer browser. I have to say that I was very impressed that I was able to get the site and it showed quite simply. The interface is quite simple, almost Google-like, but very purposeful. The main feature of it is that you would be able to look up verses and topics at the same time. I found the service very easy to use and kind of like a BibleGateway version 2. For myself, I could see using eBible in place of BibleGateway as it seeems a little more geared to a person who wants more than just a collection of verses.

To those things that I would change. I would most definitely like to see them make an even lighter version of the site and then market it to those with mobile phones. The interface is already quite simple, and this would most definitely make eBible a verry effective tool while speaking on the go about items in the Word. The other thing that I would probably change is the number of hits that it shows per page. I think that it should be user configurable (it might be, but I have not found it). For me on my Treo, I do much better with a long page of stuff, rather than smaller pages where I have to keep hitting next all the time.

All in all it really is a different way of using Bible searches than what I am used to. I will most definietly add the link here once it gets out of the beta mode and goes public. Until then, keep your eye out for eBible as I think that it will change a bit how you look at the Bible and the Internet.
- sent from Treo