Catholic New American Bible Revised Edition

It’s a really good book to read because it’s written to help us understand the Bible better

Terrific digital version.Absolutely no issues with speed and navigability as long as you have advanced iOS system.I have iphone7 plus

The text is crisply written, without archaic expressions used in “traditional” English Bibles, and incorporating the oldest sources available (for example, findings from the Dead Sea scrolls.) It is very well footnoted, to explain obscure or unclear bits in the text, and even to identify where authorities are uncertain about a translated term (typically from rarely used ancient expressions in the Old Testament.). It also presents certain passages in [square brackets] to identify text that varies in the most ancient editions, or which was determined to be a later addition to the original text. Further, I think non-Catholics don’t need to worry about editorial comments laced with Catholic doctrines. Any such bits are rare, if they are present at all. I once spot-checked this version against my wife’s Protestant version (NSV?) and found the 2 nearly identical. Given this observation, I would recommend this version over that to Everyone, for 2 reasons: (1) NABRE has much better footnotes & cross-references, and (2) Catholic Bibles are always a better value since you get more books per dollar! (Protestant Bibles omit those books they deem apocrypha.)

Wow way to kill off the main character!

This book really says a lot about our society

Downloads and opens easily without errors.

Hi can someone please tell me if the kinks have been worked out. I'm afraid to buy it with all the negative results and comments posted. Thanks.

Greatest book ever written!

just no

For those having an issue, you need to let it index on your device in portrait before starting to use it. It took about 10 minutes to index on my iPhone 4S 32 and about 20 minutes on my first generation iPad 64 wifi/3G. God Bless ❤❤❤

Glad to have this bible on my ipod touch. It includes notes and such. It is so easy just to read anywhere.

No problems loading and performance is very, very good. This was put on the iPad 4 and does not seems to any of the issues noted by older apple products. Layout and navigation is also outstanding.

Performs very well on my iPad3 and iPhone5. Like the feature that the references are hyperlinked. The notes features of iBooks works very well this book. Great price for a current Catholic bible.

I have bought this Catholic Bible and I am actually able to use it on my iPhone 4 and iPad 2. It's great that the author have made it possible for me to get a Catholic Bible at a low price. I've seen a lot of low reviews in here so I decided to put up this review to even up the things a little bit. I don't think that the low ratings speak justly about this Bible and the author. To the contrary, the author has actually provided a good Catholic version of the Bible for us to buy here on iTunes. I think that the slowness that has been said on the reviews is both true and false to a certain extent. Let me explain why. First off. This Catholic Bible contains both the Old and New Testament. That's a lot of content. To give you an idea, on my iPad in Portrait position there are about 5600+ pages and on my iPhone in Portrait position that's about 15300+ pages. You've noticed that when I specified the pages, I put in Portrait position. That's because in iBooks, number of pages change depending on whether you are in portrait or landscape… when you change position, re-pagination and indexing changes. Imagine re-indexing the whole Bible when you change the orientation of your device. I think what the slowness others here are experiencing is due to the book currently being reindex. I experienced the same slowness when I first bought and opened the book. GIVE IT some time to re-index. The thing is it will have to re-index if you go on changing your device orientation. After using it for several days now. Here's the performance I'm getting on both my iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Turning a page: about 1 second (probably less) Going to a page from the Table of Contents: less than 5 seconds Going to a page using the slider at the bottom: less than 3 seconds Going to a page by clicking on a link on the page or a footnote: varies between 1-5 seconds. One thing that may also be contributing to a bit of slowness is the fact that all over the book you'll see "Active Links" and "Footnote links" to references to other parts of the book. The good thing is that it's like having a lot of bookmarks built right into it. If it where a physical book, imagine the minutes you have to spend, finding that particular link -- so waiting a few seconds for me is quite alright. Tips for better usage 1. On loading the book, wait for several minutes for indexing to do its magic so that you can access it faster. Be patient. 2. Make use of bookmarks and markers for easier access. iBooks have given us a great tool here. We can mark things like an ordinary book and go directly to it. You can use this useful tool to get easy access to Mass verses before going to Church by marking them before the Mass. Things I love about this book: 1. Lots of active links/footnotes. Some books don't even make them active, so I have to find my way to the item. On this book, it's just a click away. 2. Price. Easily lower that what's currently being offered on iBooks. 3. Works both on my iPhone 4 and iPad 2. Bookmarks and Notes are synced which makes it great! To the author: Thank you. I hope this review gives it justice.

This bible freezes up when ever I try to show it to others. It is too slow.

After reading the reviews, I tried the free sample. It worked well so I thought the "freezing" problem had been fixed. I bought the book and now wish I hadn't. It doesn't work at all- freezes every time. It's a shame because it's the closest thing to my print version I could find. Now I'm using the $.99 American Bible ( which works perfectly). The problem is that it's written more like a King James version. I sure hope this one gets fixed!

I am afraid to buy this book because of the negative comments. It would be nice to know which iPad these reviewers have that have complaints of it being slow. There are reviewers who have no problems, is it because of their version of iPad? The sample looks and works great!! I can't make up my mind until I see more positive reviews. Hopefully people will note which iPad they have, the original one or iPad2. I have iPad2.

It reindexes every time it switches from landscape to portrait…and locks up if you try to make a note or book mark…don't waste your money

It hangs up whenever I try to open it. I haven't been able to use it since I bought it. (IPAD 1)