Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible - NASB 1977 (Includes Translators' Notes) Kindle Edition

The Kindle Scribe's features seamlessly integrate with this Bible, allowing you to handwrite your reflections as you read. These annotations are compiled in the Kindle notes and highlights section, making them easy to find. The Bible navigation all works allowing you to go to the Bible Book and to the chapters.Perfect for those who used to jot down notes in the margins of a physical Bible, only to eventually face the wear and tear of its binding breaking and requiring you to lose your notes when you get a new Bible.

I am a reader of only NASB updated Edition (1995). I have a middle size paper version Bible and I live with it and try living according to it. However, I am not a native English user and therefore have to translate pretty often, even a common words. Moreover, I am daily using public transport to go to job and want to use that time for reading. The paper version is heavy and the bus lighting is poor and insufficient for reading. For a long time I was looking for a solution - an e-book that I could use quite like any other PDF document using my PC-tablet that I have always with me.I found this e-book a perfect choice that exactly fits my needs.The main features I was looking for and have found in this e-book:1) Having exactly my Bible: NASB Updated Edition (1995) in e-book version, published by the Lockman Foundation (Original), not some other/similar or inaccurate imitation of NASB 1995.2) Ability to read the Bible Off-line, without Wi-fi connection, completely standalone. I can't be hooked up to Wi-fi anywhere I go always. It's either battery consuming or impossible at all. For Online readers there's a biblegeteway(.)com. But the point is to use your Bible anywhere you go, just like you use your paper version, right?3) Ability to read this e-book using Windows 10 PC or Windows 7 PC, using Kindle for PC software for Windows/Max/Android (because I am only reading NASB and no other books, have a PC but not a Kindle).4) Ability to translate words by clicking on them directly, like Google Translate. (I was asked to download an U.S. Oxford version dictionary that even works off-line (standalone)). A powerful advantage as it is time consuming to copy-paste a word and minimize/maximize another window of some translator to translate the word.5) Ability to highlight words/verses and comment them6) Ability to use search function (in this Kindle for PC App, the search works exceptionally fast in comparison to searching in PDF file, moreover, the search function not only finds the first word in the text (so you have to go through all the Bible), but shows in the search result window all the verses that contain the word you are searching. Awesome!7) Remembers the last page I read (even without placing bookmark). I read in the bus going to job. Coming back, I just open my tablet and page I ''closed'' the Bible appears straight away.8) Ability to change font and its size, word count per line and background color - beautiful features. I like to read my tablet in landscape mode, using black background (better visibility in daylight, less battery consumption), using pretty large font size, like 14 or so. That way I can easily read sitting in the public transport as if I had an extra large paper size Bible.9) Table of contents easy manage. Not only have hyperlinks to main books in Bible, but also, opening the particular book, you can choose a chapter you want straight away. Thus you can open whatever place in the Bible very quickly.The only problem with this Kindle for PC app is that is sometimes crashes on my Windows 10 PC. But I can quickly re-open it and I am back in the page I left, so not that big deal.Some things I would like to figure out (maybe you guys can help me):1) Is it possible to export the highlighted text that I have marked in one particular PC to other PCs as well?2) How stable are my highlights or added comments? Will they remain in my Bible always and wont disappear while some further software updates or whatever reason?3) Would this Bible App will always work and not disappear or or become unavailable/discontinued/unsupported, so that I lose my markings?

It was easy to read. I finished it in less than a year. Increasing the phont size made it easier to read. Doing this review is totally unnecessary. I will not do it again.

As a trained theologian, I like the '77 version better than the newer, '95 edition because it is more committed to an exact translation from the Greek and Hebrew. I have never found it's readability to be a problem, even before seminary training. The newer version has been "dumbed down" a little, which I don't think is appropriate for the Bible. I want to know exactly what it says. One example: the '77 version uses the word "lest," which the '95 version replaces with "or else." They don't mean the same thing. "Lest" is the better choice.I don't mind the '95 version's choice to replace the "Thee's" and "Thou's." Those are not a part of the original languages. They are carryovers from the Elizabethan English of the King James Version. And I don't know how much new manuscript evidence has come to light between the '77 and '95 versions. That could be a consideration, but the NASV has always been based upon the most reliable manuscripts, so I doubt that there is much difference there.I would choose the NASV over any other version, whichever edition one prefers, '77 or '95. It is the most accurate, literal translation of the original languages. And for study, that is what we want. I have used both editions every day for many years.Now as to this particular Bible: the print is large without being giant, so the book doesn't weigh a ton, but is easy for older eyes to read. The cover is well-made. It has a concordance and maps in the back. It doesn't have as many cross-references as I like to see in a study Bible. Those can be found other places, but most wouldn't trouble themselves. To get large print and reasonable size meant that something had to be left out. They made the right choice in cutting down on the cross-references.For someone who needs a larger print Bible, I would definitely give this one my full recommendation