A New Bible
Oct 29th, 2008 by Ben
Yesterday I received a new Bible I ordered in June. There were a lot of delays and it finally arrived.
The binding is the best binding I have ever seen on a book.
The printing of the text is so disappointing, I returned it.
The problem was bleed-through, and it was quite severe. I have an NIV that has thinner pages but it is highly readable. This ESV was quite hard to read, mainly in sections of the Bible laid out like poetry.
I just couldn’t afford to spend the kind of money it cost (even on my Anglican book allowance) considering how hard it was to read.
Now I’m left with an open loop. I’m after a new ESV that will really last me, and I thought I had one, but who wants a Bible that’s hard to read?
That’s what it’s for.
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Is that a hint for a Christmas present? If so I’d be happy to help
Thanks, Beccy, but by God’s kindness, the diocese gives me a book allowance for these kinds of things.
can get a return ? maybe should go for esv study bible, no ?
i hope that wasn’t an esv study bible - I ‘ve waiting forever for my nice one
It wasn’t. It was just a regular ESV v2.0.
I pay way too much attention to grammar… but I noticed you wrote “an” rather than “a” before NIV. Which is correct? Reading aloud, “an” sounds better but I though you only used an infront of vowels and h’s? Would love to know. Thanks =)