Mobile Ministry Magazine

Amazon's Kindle has developed a good following since its introduction a few weeks ago. The agressively priced, wireless eBook reader has very much made its presence felt however with a very large (and growing library).

Of course, it was only a matter of time before readers would demand to get the Bible on their Kindle readers. In a post at the ESV Blog, this is something that was just announced as being available for $9.99.

So what are some of the features of the ESV on Kindle? Here are a few as stated from the ESV Blog posting:
- Chapter numbers are larger than verse numbers to provide better readability.
- Opening the ESV on Kindle takes you to the table of contents for the Bible, letting you move easily to any book. Once you arrive at a book, you’ll see links to each chapter (right-aligned for easy use with the Kindle cursor), letting you get pretty close to your intended passage.
- The ESV textual footnotes are all hyperlinked in the text, with hyperlinks back to the relevant passage from each note.

According to the ESV Blog, there are also plans to consider "making the ESV Literary Study Bible available on Kindle if demand warrants it." As with most software development, make your voices known by emailing the developers to get a feature request in.

The Kindle and the ESV for Kindle can both be purchased from Amazon.

The ESV (and other Bible versions) on the Kindle and other electronic Bible readers is an excellent way to use technology in ways that just aren't consumer/consumption driven. Even noted on at the same ESV post was a note of a user who thinks on the merits of the Kindle as a Bible study platform. While I am not sure that the device itself will be the key (due to costs), having a platform that makes suitable and versatile formats for the content will go a long way towards helping the Kindle spark a bit of a reading revolution.

- thanks to LJ for the tip

Labels: Bible, ESV, Kindle, mobile