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There are a variety of approaches to displaying bible text
on a Psion/Symbian palmtop.
On a Series 60 (S60) device
On a Symbian communicator (e.g. Nokia 9210/9500, Sony
Ericsson P900)
- The World English text is also available as an even
more highly compressed TomeRaider database. This offers very fast keyword
lookup. Download this version here (2.1MB).
And here's the ISV New Testament, in the same format,
ISVNTv130.tr (563K). You can get the
shareware TomeRaider viewer from Proporta.
- Mobipocket
Reader is a versatile freeware reader that can cope with the World English
Bible in standard ebook format. Here's the
New Testament, to get you started.
MemoWare has the full set.
- As a last resort, you can go online and tap on one of
the books at bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=NIV&passage=all
and save the resulting web page. Then you can just open this again in your
browser later on.
On an EPOC device (e.g. Series 5)
- Portions of both World English and Old King James
Bibles are online in both Data and compressed etext format in several places on
the net, including PocketInfo.
- The World English text is also available as an even
more highly compressed TomeRaider database. This offers very fast keyword
lookup. Download this version here. And
here's the ISV New Testament, in the same format, ISVNTv130.tr (563K). You can get the shareware
TomeRaider viewer from Proporta.
- Selected key verses are available in easy-to-use format
in my freeware LifeGuide.
- Palmix have developed a freeware book-by-book reader
application. Find out more at
palmix.itil.com/newpalmix/products/bible_home.htm
- Mobipocket
Reader is a versatile freeware reader that can cope with the World English
Bible in standard ebook format. Here's the
New Testament, to get you started.
MemoWare has the full set.
- As a last resort, you can go online and tap on one of
the books at bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=NIV&passage=all
and save the resulting web page. Then you can just open this again in Web later
on.
On a Series 3a/3c/3mx
Firstly, consider a set of WORD files, each with the text
of one book of the bible. The main problem with this approach is the limit of
32,000 or so characters for each file - quite a few of the bible books exceed
this.
Secondly, you can think about keeping the text complete
(or at least in larger sections) and using Barry Childress'
Reader shareware program, which allows browsing
and searching of large text files. Even better, it allows us to use
pre-compressed files (which can be distinguished by their .TCR
extension), so for example our 1Mb New Testament text only takes up 400k or so.
Pre-compressed versions of both the Old and New testaments in Old King
James format are available from the usual shareware sources. A
pre-compressed version of selected books from the World English
Bible is here as webs3.zip (270k).
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Thirdly, several people have been working on specific
bible reader applications, which offer special features like jumping to
specific references or offering concordance links, in addition to some kind of
compression system to save space.
One such program which is available now is
Christopher Took's BIBLE
program. So far the only datafiles ready are the basic Old King James New
and Old Testaments, broken down into separate books, but there is a menu option
for a concordance, and the basic program looks very promising. Again, even in
its compressed form, the bible will fill a 2Mb flash disk. In fact, using
Christopher's system the total size is 2.3Mb.
Lastly, my own "Lifeguide" is
freeware and displays appropriate verses in modern english for particular moods
or situations.
With the advent of the
World English Bible, I dare say
that some or all of the Old King James texts mentioned above will be converted
into the new translation format. Watch this space!
If you speak german, see also
M.Nitzke's
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