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Summary: Excellent Translation, Poor Leather
Review: In our day of mass marketing and mass production, Crossway Books would do well to learn the lessons of Thomas Nelson. Nelson once published excellent Bibles with great leather texture, binding, and onion skin paper. However, Nelson has abandoned that now and makes cheap, mass production Bibles simply because people buy them and it costs nothing for Nelson to make them. For me this is the case with this edition from Crossway. The translation is excellent and I rank it up there with the NASB and the NKJV. But the genuine leather and the entire Bible itself apart from the text is not very good. I would love to see Crossway come out with a quality genuine leather, center-cross references, verse formatted, and thumb-indexed. I believe in time they will.
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Summary: Excellent Translation, Poor Leather
Review: In our day of mass marketing and mass production, Crossway Books would do well to learn the lessons of Thomas Nelson. Nelson once published excellent Bibles with great leather texture, binding, and onion skin paper. However, Nelson has abandoned that now and makes cheap, mass production Bibles simply because people buy them and it costs nothing for Nelson to make them. For me this is the case with this edition from Crossway. The translation is excellent and I rank it up there with the NASB and the NKJV. But the genuine leather and the entire Bible itself apart from the text is not very good. I would love to see Crossway come out with a quality genuine leather, center-cross references, verse formatted, and thumb-indexed. I believe in time they will.
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Summary: Available editions
Review: It's a pity they don't make an slim-line version that has thumb indexes and/or centre column references. If you want slim-line you've got to give up these two features. They should make one like the NASB version ISBN 1581350279. That would be perfect - thin, cross-references, concordance, thumb-indexed, genuine leather. Will stick with my NASB for the moment. Might get an ESV as well when they come out with such an edition. They should dump the book intros of the Classic edition though. We don't need that nonsense in a regular bible. Save that for the study bible.
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Summary: Excellent Bible, Poor CD
Review: Some of the leather bound Bibles come with a Bible Reference Library CD. Beware of this product. It says it works fine with Windows 95 and 98. If you have XP proffessional or XP home, this CD WILL NOT WORK. You may have a great Bible, but you won't have a working CD. I've searched the Internet for Crossway's update page... nothing. Apparently they have stopped supporting this CD. So buy the ESV Bible for the printed version, and don't put your hopes on their CD.
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Summary: ESV
Review: The most accurate translation of the Bible in the modern English.
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