Review: A Lot To Like
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
As far as I've seen, this is the best of the ninety-nine cent ASV bibles.  Uses the name "Jehovah" for the tetragrammaton, which I really like despite the fact that such would not have been the Jewish pronunciation, which isn't certainly known.  Some people mistakenly identify this version as a Watchtower publication because of the use of "Jehovah."  However, the bible associated with that group is the New World Translation, not the ASV.  The ASV, is a revision of the KJV published in 1901, and is associated with the English RV of 1885.  The ASV is said by many seminarians to be as literally faithful to the original languages (Greek, Hebrew) as a version of the English bible gets.  The highly respected NASB is a revision of the ASV.  I have two ASV print bibles;  it is an excellent version for study.  Still includes some archaic language - ie, thee's and thou's - but some of us like that anyway.Navigation of this Kindle edition is good, better than average.  I use an older pre-Fire Kindle, and I noticed that another reviewer who also uses an older Kindle praised the search function for direct verse look-up.  However, even though I've had mine loaded for a day, I still get a message claiming that indexing is not complete when I attempt to use the feature.  Fortunately, the well-designed Table of Contents functions very well.  I'm still holding out hope of the search feature becoming operable.The text is laid out so cleanly that reading is an easy joy.  Each verse has a faint-script Book-chapter notation at the far left so you always know "where you are" and each verse is left-justified, with spaces between each verse, too.  Very nice-looking, uncluttered presentation.  As a bonus the L/R buttons of your five-way navigation control takes you to the beginning of the previous or next chapter - a feature I always hope for with these inexpensive selections.  Nice.Each new chapter begins at the top of a page, and I love, love, love that feature - especially for using bookmarks.  As I say, there is a lot to like about this ASV - some bibles offered at a higher price aren't designed this well.  To conclude, I'd give this a perfect 5 stars if my direct verse feature were functional, and if it possibly becomes so after some further indexing, then I will come back and raise the rating from a strong 4-star to a 5-star, which will serve to indicate the feature did become operational.  [UPDATE:  Turns out the problem with the search feature is due to my having an older Kindle - since it wasn't a fault of this bible, I went ahead and upped the rating.  Should work fine for you folks with newer devices, while still remaining exceptional even for my old one.]Great version of the bible with well-implemented navigational features and thoughtful design for a clean visual text appearance at the cheap-seat price.  Good buy, highly recommended.