Review: Kindle format, very nice but needs some tweaking to be great
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2011
Purchased Jan 2011, so older or newer may be a bit different.I do like the layout of this version very much. It flows nicely and is very easy to read. Verse numbers are light & not to obtrusive. Where certain translations may be different to more traditional Bibles, a bullet point marks it as so, with a reference and the more traditional translation written at the back of the book.To get to that footnote quickly, you can use the 5-way RIGHT click to get to the bullets. Hit Back to return to where you were. (if you use LEFT button it will take you to the introductory pages. If that happens, click BACK twice to get back to your original page).Note to publisher: it would be nice if, instead of a bullet, we could hyperlink to the footnote/ translation alternative instead. I've seen many books do that and it works great.What this version really lacks & stops it being a 5 star Kindle format, is two things:1. Direct Verse Jump (My King James version has that and it's GREAT),2. The ability to easily skip from Book to Book using the 5-way. This is a MUST for large books, to save having to go to & scroll through the Table of contents all the time. When I am in a Bible Study, it takes me far longer to look it up in this version than the King James. Meanwhile all those in paper have skipped straight to the page.[I see an older review saying they can do this. I am unable to do it with my Kindle 2, so I wonder if the feature were changed, as now the 5-way button goes to the footnotes, not to the next chapter or Book]I have got around some of this by making my own bookmarks for the Table of Contents, Old and New Testament, so I can go to Menu > Notes and marks then pick the one I want.With a few updates, this would be a very usable and nice Bible, and I'd love to know if/ when the edits happen so I can get the newer version. As it is, it is good for reading the Bible but not so much for quickly referencing the Bible or flipping from reference to reference, as we are doing in our "chronological" Bible study. For that, I revert back to my King James.