iPod Bible (aka the Book of Jobs)

31st October 2005

iPod Bible (aka the Book of Jobs)

Categories : Bible, iPod |

The gospel according to iPod - The Other Side - Breaking News 24/7 - NEWS.com.au - yet another iPod story. This time news.com.au are reporting the upcoming release of some software from Zondervan and Talking Panda Software which will allow you to listen to an audio Bible on your iPod whilst at the same time being able to read the text on the iPod screen. This will go on sale in February and will cost $US49.99.

I hate to burst their bubble, but this product isn’t so innovative as it seems. My favourite PDA Bible software company, Laridian, a few months back released iPocketBible, which does exactly the same thing. This is one of the few Laridian products that I don’t own (since I already have an audio Bible on my iPod) but it looks very good, as you can see in the screenshots below. So if you don’t want to have to wait til February to hear and read the Bible on your iPod, then check out iPocketBible (the cost is the same).

The one thing that did amuse me from the news article above is their little pun, “The product, which wits have dubbed the Book of Jobs, after Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, will cost $US49.99 ($66)” It’s a pretty lame joke but it gave me a smile. Speaking of Job, check out this cool passage from Job 22:23-30 that I came across earlier today.

[Current Music: Paul Colman Trio - Africa]

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1 On January 22nd, 2007, Richard Erwood said:

Hello there
Not so much a comment as a question (or three).
As I grow older I find reading even my Bible to be more of a chore than it once was, and so have been considering the purchase of some technological wonder to help.

I first considered CDs, but the idea of storing, and managing 62 CDs for a single bible version turned me in the direction of the ipod.

My daughter assures me that these are too fiddly to be worth considering and that I would be better off with the CDs.

Unconvinced I then thought perhaps a cheap and simple (well perhaps not that simple) PDA loaded with a couple of Laridian’s versions, KJV an old favourite, and the NLT which I’ve recently discovered and find most enlightening.

As you can probably see I’m somewhat baffled by too many choices coupled with an astonishing ignorance of what is involved. I would really appreciate your comments on this dilemma from the standpoint of someone who is familiar with this method of accessing the Scriptures, if it would not be too great an imposition on someone who obviously has a very busy schedule
Regards Dick.