Reader Sharon recently emailed me after she received a Kindle for her birthday. As she began to see what was available, she downloaded the Douay-Rheims and RSV-2CE Study Bible (ICSBNT). However, she would like to know what else is available for Catholics, particularly in the area of Bible study, for the Kindle.
So, I propose to you these two questions:
1) What Bible study material is out there and works well on the Kindle?
2) Do you use a Kindle regularly for your own personal Bible reading or study?
13 comments:
For starters, you can get the Catena Aurea for free. Although there is no table of contents, so it is necessary to search for chapters.
Also, there are a ton of other resources such as the full Summa for free. I downloaded the Universalis program and now I can have a month's worth of the (modern) Divine Office on it. All of Chesterton's works are available pretty much free. And it goes on and on...
There is a LOT of Catholic content out for the Kindle, moreso than the nook. Almost all of Scott Hahns books, Catholicism and Saints For Dummies, several versions of the NRSV, the Ignatius Bible, the Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament, the Catholic BIble Dictionary, all of the Catholic Commentary on Sacred Scripture, and much more. The only glaring ommisions at this point are the Catechism and the New American Bible.
I recently bought a Kobo ereader from Borders and would like to know where to get the RSV-CE and the NRSV either a "Catholic Edition" or one with the Apocrypha in "epub" format
The Ignatius website sells the RSV-2CE in epub format. You can find the NRSV w/ Apocrypha through a Google search pretty easily. I would put the link on here, but I'm not sure what the policy for putting other websites on here is...
Abe,
Feel free to include any links.
With Timothy's permission:
For RSV-2CE: http://www.ignatius.com/Products/IB2-E/ignatius-bible-rsv-2nd-edition.aspx
(I couldn't find one for RSV-CE)
For NRSV w/Apocrypha: http://www.diesel-ebooks.com/item/9780061946875/ebook/NRSV-Standard-Bible-w-Apoc-Old-Testament-&-Apocrypha-eBook/1.html
(It looks as if the NRSV ebook bibles are split into NT and OT so you may have to make 2 purchases. Diesel Ebooks looks like they have the "CE" version as well.)
The Harper Collins website also has the NRSV, but their search function is pretty bad.
Here's what I have on my Kindle:
THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY:
* Aquinas 101 (Selman) ($10)
* A Shorter Summa (Aquinas, Kreeft) ($10)
* The Ignatius Bible ($10)
* The Catechism of the Catholic Church (Yes, you can download the CCC as a plain-text file, but the website making it available does not seem to have obtained permission from the USCCB to make it available)
DEVOTIONAL:
* Missal (Extraordinary Form) http://www.allsaintsrichford.org/Latin-English%20Missal.pdf
* Missal (Ordinary Form, old) (Copy and paste into a text file) http://www.stjosephsdarlaston.co.uk/order_of_mass.htm
* Missal (Ordinary Form, new) http://paulo123.com/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/English_translation_of_The_Order_of_Mass_I_-_formatted.34683410.pdf
* Examination of Conscience http://www.catholicparents.org/oxcart/Examination%20of%20Conscience.pdf
* Introduction to the Devout Life (St. Francis de Sales) http://www.ccel.org/ccel/desales/devout_life.txt
* The Interior Castle (St. Teresa of Avila) http://www.sacred-texts.com/chr/tic/tic.txt.gz
* Baltimore Catechism http://sacred-texts.com/chr/balt/balt.txt.gz
Also a good thing about the Kindle is that we can finally read the RSV-2CE in single-column format :-)
Jonathan,
Thanks for the comments.
And yes, having the RSV-2CE in a single column is wonderful. I wish they would actually produce a print version like it.
We have just received the approval from the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine to release a Kindle version of the NABRE, which features an excellent formatting true to the paper editions and multiple navigation aids, which allow opening any verse in the Bible in seconds (as explained in detail in the book itself). All material, including footnotes, is preserved and crossreferenced within the text. See http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006298622
Where to find a epub or kindle version of the New Jerusalem Bible? Or an e-version of The Catholic Comparative New Testament(that contains the New American Bible · Revised Standard Version · New Revised Standard Version · Jerusalem Bible · New Jerusalem Bible · Douay-Rheims · and Good News Translation) from Publisher Oxford University Press!! I'm going to try to request that they create a kindle version. I love having the comparative tools on hand. It's too bad surgeworks hasn't created an iPad, iPhone version of their Catholic Bible tool (as they have done for the mac)...
I use a Kobo Touch. I am a Catholic from UK and would prefer the Catholic Truth Society's version of the Bible - have asked them to consider creating a version. In the meantime I am happy to use the NRSV Catholic Anglicised Version. I also use the Good News Bible (both available on Kobo) - this is a very natural-to-read version and finding chapters within books of the bible is easier. Kindle has Douay-Rheims but cannot get along with its ancient "wordiness", if you know what I mean.
I too would like the CTS Jerusalem version in kindle format. it is my favorite translation and would welv come it.
Keith
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