jonathon

I have a friend who has recently gone blind.

Try bard.loc.gov
The files won't be in mp3 format, but rather DAISY format.

If they don't have it, then probably the only legal option is to purchase the CDs/mp3 from CBD.  Other Christian, or even secular bookstores might have them, but since more than one person I know has gone broke saving money by purchasing their Christian material from CBD ....  

FWIW, my favorite audio Bible is Inspired By .... The Bible Experience.  The voice actors are African Americans, such as Denzel Washington, Blaire Underwood, Ertha Kitt, Monique, Natalie Cole, Angela Bassett, etc.

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It might be easier to obtain a gratis copy of the NIV in Braille, than in mp3 format.

jonathon

Please explain what you mean by that.

I'll try, by rephrasing it, albeit that rephrase is going to be more complex, obscure, and less understandable.

For those whose Bible study consists of tearing apart the  NA-28, BHS, WLC, MS, Byzantine Text, Majority Text, Clementine Vulgate, Peshita, Siddhic text,  etc, then Biblical Software that only provides the KJV does not provide the texts one uses for one's Bible study, and hence is utterly useless, for such purpose, because it fails to provide the required support for the type of Bible study that one does.

Rephrased differently.  

If your typical Bible study consists of studying the inflections of the Hebrew middle weak verb, with the entire range of possible variations for each conjunction (perfect, imperative, etc), person, number, gender, and stem, then Biblical software that provides the functionality is mandatory.  If one's Biblical software does not provide grammar and syntax search functionality, then one's Biblical software hinders the individual, by not providing the tools for studying the Bible in their usual, standard, and accustomed manner.

An explanation for this would be nice to.

Biblical software is useful, only to the extent that it supports the systems and methods of Bible Study that one uses.  If it fails to support those systems and methods, then it fails to enable one to study the Bible.

jonathon

]You can still read the Catholic books in MySword, they just aren't apart of the "Bible" in the software,.

By that criteria, MySword is the optimal choice for those who study the 道藏 or स्मृति.

jonathon

The basic version has more features than pocket e sword ever did.

Pocket e-Sword supports the Catholic Canon.
MySword does not support the Catholic Canon.



jonathon

I suspect that the next new product will be for the iPhone, because the coding is quite similar to the iPad. 

iPad, then iPhone, the Mac OS X.  (The same code base can be used for all three.)

There are two or three IDEs for iOS and Mac OS X, that will generate workable code for Android. If Rick is using one of them, then e-Sword for Android is not out of the question.

The Android developer's nightmare is support. The only way to ensure that a program runs on a specific device properly, is to test it on that device. (It is not uncommon for the updates to the installed apps I have, to be not supported, and, as often as not, uninstallable on my Xoom.) Simply to keep up with released Android devices, requires a monthly budget in the neighbourhood of US$10K. By way of contrast, all of the iOS devices that have been publicly released, can be purchased, in working condition, used, for under US$10K.

Depending on how Windows 8 is received/accepted over the next year or so, then maybe a new Windows based product.

Windows 9: If:
* Microsoft lasts until it is released;
* is released on schedule;
* contains all currently announced features;
* contains all currently announced components;
* works as currently advertised;
Then e-Sword on your desktop, laptop, game console, and mobile device is extremly probably. The kicker being whether or not it will be allowed in the Windows 9 application store.

However, Microsoft has never:
* released an OS on schedule;
* included all announced features in the OS release;
* included all announced components in the OS releas;

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e-Sword Live! is getting long of tooth. A makeover here is long overdue, if it is to remain competitative in the web based Biblical software market.

Revamping includes:
* Rename existing "Topics" to "Cross-references";
* Add "Daily Devotions";
* Add "Prayer List";
* Allow for user created notes;
* Incorporate maps of places, and trips;
* Redoing the site using HTML 5.0, and related technologies;

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Much as I would like to see e-Sword as a native Linux program, I doubt Rick will do that, unless it is as a "personal cloud" program. Something that one runs on one's private cloud. A migration, so to speak, of e-Sword Live!, from a corporate LAMP server to personal LAMP servers.

jonathon

I thought about that, but I don't think it would really lend itself to an easy read, having to mouse from verse to verse and only being able to see one verse at a time.  I am going to use that strategy on my next module, though.

Create two resources:

• A chronological verse list;
• A topical file/refx/whatever, that consists entirely of tool tip links;

jonathon

as well as an e-Sword package (with Afrikaans- and KJV Bibles) for my tablet running on Android.

e-Sword has not been ported to Android, and won't run on that platform.

And Bible (part of The Sword Project / The Crosswire Bible Society) does offer the 1953 Afrikaanse Bybel.
IMNSHO, that is one of the best gratis/low cost biblical software programs for the Android, that is currently available. That isn't as much of recommendation as it sounds like, because none of the 6,000+ apps that claim to be Biblical Software, are adequate.

jonathon

My home network is a simple wireless network for several home devices.

You might be running into a proxy issue.
">Download >Bibles >Options >Proxy"

Fixing it, depends upon what the proxy expects.

ut the Module Downloader did not show any modules in the window to download for any of the 6 tabs

The only other cause of the Internal Module Downloader not working, that I am aware of, is a missing DL. AFAIK, thta only happens when using a Windows emulator, such as WINE, or CrossOver.

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What version of MIE is installed?

jonathon

So I don't think he's changing e-Sword for the pc, since he only changed direction on the iPad because he could not implement RTF easily on that platform.

However, changing to HTML for PC would solve various technical issues/bugs that RTF presents.

jonathon

However, I suspect that a large percentage of the e sword user base do not own IPAD's.  

Either Motorola or Samsung has filed a lawsuit with the ITC, to ban the import of virtually all iPhone and iPad devices, due to patent violations.

This news may encourage some to buy IPAD's.

In the Apple v Samsung court case in California, Apple all but said outright that the Samsung Galaxy Tab was better designed, more functional, and more useful for users, the the iPad.

For me personally, I need a software that allows user made content.

Then you want an OS, and applications, that are licenced under the GNU GPL 2.0, GNU GPL 3.0, or a license that is compatible with those licenses.

jonathon

Is there a program or something that can be used to easily edit the text of existing E-Sword modules.

Easy is a matter of perception, and definition.

I find SQLite Database Browser easy to use.  However, it does require that one know SQL.  It also requires that one knows the RTF that e-Sword recognizes.

jonathon

I suspect you could add your own modules if you jailbroke the iPad.

The only way to do anything useful on an iPad, is to jailbreak it.

The modules will be sqlite, but they will not be RTF based. Instead, they are HTML based.

I wonder if that means that e-Sword 10.2.x, or higher will use HTML, either in parrallel with, or instead of RTF.

jonathon

There are many outstanding user-made modules that are polished to the extent that they are as good as or better than Rick's official modules. I don't understand why Rick doesn't adopt some of the best ones and make them official

A very long time ago Rick offered user created resources on e-Sword.net.
Unfortunately, he ran into a couple of issues that didn't endear him to publishers.  However, that was a long time ago, and things have changed considerably.

The simplest/easiest way to select which resources get migrated to e-Sword.net, is to add the resources that average 1,000 downloads per month, over twelve to eighteen months.  Those resources should be the best made, and conform to the theological outlook that Rick uses when selecting what content is suitable for conversion to e-Sword.

jonathon

Craig to no longer distribute.

AFAIK, it wasn't written by Craig.  It was not distributed from his website.

jonathon

Click Bible from the main eSword menu, and "Verse Lists" are the 4th item down from the top.

Surfing Ten is asking about Bookmarks on MySword, not e-Sword.

I dropped MySword a couple of months ago, and don't remember where/if Bookmarks could be categorized.

jonathon