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Free Bibles formatted for e-readers

This is a compilation of all my Bibles formatted for Kindle, Nook, and other e-readers here. There are 30 different files here. Besides choosing language and file format there are three variants.

  • Single version Bible- is only one version of the Bible or the New Testament
  • Parallel Bible-Two languages with one version immediately below each verse. This is good for learning a language.
  • Linked Bibles-Two or more languages with a link at the begin of each verse to jump to that verse in anyone of the other languages. This is good for reference or when working in more than two languages. This was necessary because switching between Bibles on the Kindle is tedious.

Why all the types and versions? Because I use them. Each has its place. They are all good ministery and language learning tools. I have grouped them by language.

English

Greek

Russian/Ukrainian

Albanian

A word on navigation.

All Bibles have a TOC (Table of Contents) both system and in line. I have developed the navigation for myself, and I can get around the Bible fairly fast. I thought about a two or three letter navigation for jumping to verses, but never could see a system for consistent abbreviations. At least on the Kindle, each book of the Bible is marked so the right key on the five way will take you to the next book. The left will take you to the beginning of the current book and another click will take you to the previous. If the book is not far from where you are than a few clicks either right or left will get you to the beginning of the book where there is a chapter index. If the book it is best to use the TOC. The best way I have found to get to the TOC from anywhere is on the five-way key push left, down,down, and enter (without waiting on the kindle to refresh). This is taking you to the link to the TOC at the beginning of each book. There is also a link to the TOC at the beginning of each chapter as well as a link to the chapter index of the current book. Over all I am satisfied with navigation and hope it is helpful to you.

Let me know of any errors (Verse order out of sync, broken links, or what ever) I also do not use the ePub format so let me know how that is going.

Also you can comment any suggestions below.



Posted on August 31st, 2011 , . You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

16 Responses to “Free Bibles formatted for e-readers”

  1. Krenar says:
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    I see that you have done great work. once I get my Kindle will unload, blessings
    krenari (Kisha Rruga e Paqes tirane)

  2. smb3rd says:
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    Believing Thomas,

    God bless your soul! I have been searching forever to find a good KJV bible with Chapter and Book TOC for her PDN eReader and you have done it!

    May God continue to bless your ministry.

    smb3rd

  3. Krenar says:
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    Thank You (faleminderit)

  4. Bill Hasty says:
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    How do I download the Bible into my Kendle? I am not very smart with it yet ,just got it

    Thank you

  5. admin says:
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    Connect the kindle to the computer with the supplied USB. The computer should recognize it as removable media. In my computer you should see the kindle as a drive. Open the drive and place Bible mobi file into the document folder on the Kindle. Somethings are easier to do than explain. Thomas

  6. Don Cunningham says:
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    Thank you.
    Great job; easy to find KJV verses.
    Had been disappointed with an Amazon Kindle KJV w/0 TOC. Booooo…. frustrating. Yours is tops!

    Would be nice to have a place to “park” memory verses; the highlighted verses are nice, but hard to read in black
    Blessings,
    Don

  7. Don Cunningham says:
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    Clarification – comments related to Kindle on my computer. Still learning to use my portable Kindle; think it will be OK w/memory verses. Thanks.

  8. David M. Miller says:
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    Hi Believing Thomas,

    Thanks for making these available.

    If you are able to embed the Greek fonts into the epub files they would (probably) work on the new Sony Reader Wifi.

  9. admin says:
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    @David M Miller- Thank you for the suggestion. However, at the time being I probably will not mess with it. I am surprised that a new e-reader would not read Greek in Unicode. Or maybe I am missing something?

  10. Galinda Barefoot says:
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    How do I download this to my kindle?

  11. admin says:
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    Just plug your kindle in the computer and copy the file to your document folder on the kindle. Hope that helps.

  12. Shane says:
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    Thank you for the King James Bible for Kindle, Nook and others!!! That is great! Please contact me as I would like to make a request for another Bible.

    Shane

  13. Galinda Barefoot says:
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    Thank you for very much. It worked great.

  14. George Zachariah says:
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    Thank you very much. The mobi. file is lovely.

  15. Bryon says:
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    I can download the Bibles but not open them on my laptop. What software do I need to do this?
    thanks,
    Bryon

  16. admin says:
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    Byron, these files are to be used on e-readers like the Kindle, the Nook and others. They can be viewed from your laptop using, the Kindle e-reader for PC from Amazon or some other e-reader software for the PC. However, if you are going to use a laptop it would be much more advantages to us a Bible program. I suggest The Word as a good free bible program that is much more powerful than any e-book format, plus it has many languages, versions of the Bible and supplemental material.

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