Bible Formats
A previous post about Bible readers got me thinking again about the idea of Bible formats and the fact that content is very much unmovable from one appliation to another. In some respects, I really have won out because with my current phone, even though its not Palm OS, it can use the Bible+ Bibles formatted for that application.
Because of this, there's extra value to not only having a Bible on my device, but the content that I've collected over the years. Needless to say, I've got a ton of Bibles (and other content), and much of that I didn't want to have to reacquire for another application and publishing scheme.
And in previous posts, we've talked about this conflict with publishers needing to (rightly) control the content they make available, and the Bible software developers who make all of our Bible readers possible. I don't want to rerun too much on previous discusisons, but I do want to ask the community here a question:
How important is it to you that the electronic Bibles that you have for whatever application you are using now are compatible with another Bible application you may choose to use in the future?
This is a pretty valuable question. Some don't consider the free or low cost Bibles, but those as well as the very expensive bundles can be very tedious to move from one applicaiton to another. What are your thoughts? And is this something that we should change?
Labels: Bible, Bible+, content, reading, S60 Bible Reader, software
posted by Antoine @ 10/09/2008 10:00:00 AM
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3 Comments:
I wish there was a Bible program that had a version for PALM and Windows that interacted with each other. You would not have everything on your PALM you had on your Desktop, but they would sync up with each other. You would have limited reference tools on your PALM. Notes you made on your PALM would sync to your desktop. Some of the notes on your desktop would be on your PALM (think Docs to Go).
Content portability is king. I'm fighting this issue right now; I already bought the ESV for Olive Tree on a BlackBerry. Now I have an iPhone, but I don't want to buy the ESV *again*. Even further - I might want to use Mantis instead, but I still don't want to pay again.
So one person would prefer syncing as a means to keep content portable, and another would just like to be able to move the content directly.
The latter I can truly get with as I don't sync any more. Paying for the same version in multiple apps is just not wise on any account.
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