Print your own bible and commentary

Neil Hess
Neil Hess Member Posts: 29 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

So I have just started writing notes and what not, and I got to thinking, how cool would it be to be able to print out a whole bible with my own notes in the "commentary" section?  Kind of like a "print your own study bible".  Is there anyway to do this?  If not, can we add this to the "suggestions" section of the forums?  I think it would be so cool years from now to print one out! Big Smile

God bless!

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  • tom
    tom Member Posts: 3,213 ✭✭✭

    Neil Hess said:

    So I have just started writing notes and what not, and I got to thinking, how cool would it be to be able to print out a whole bible with my own notes in the "commentary" section?  Kind of like a "print your own study bible".  Is there anyway to do this?  If not, can we add this to the "suggestions" section of the forums?  I think it would be so cool years from now to print one out! Big Smile

    God bless!

    This might run into copyright violations.  You can only copy/print so much of a bible (if it is under copyright).

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 14,606 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Although there's several translations that allow personal use (eg NET), the main practical problem is 'your next note'. I don't literally print out Bibles/text but I do move the combination to others of my software packages. Although  the Bible text remains constant, the notes age quickly (don't have the recent ones).

    "If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.

  • Philana Crouch
    Philana Crouch Member Posts: 2,151 ✭✭✭

    Hi Neil,

    If no one has done so already Welcome to the Logos Forums! Its a great place to get help. Your ideas sounds really interesting, but I don’t know that it would work. First, printing it out would be expensive and huge (Bible are printed on thin paper, and the type of paper and printer is not readily available). It would take printing something like a ream of paper (which would be a bit cumbersome) remember most study Bibles are over 1,000 pages. Second, unless you want to use a public domain Bible, copyright laws would prohibit the printing out.

    But you could create a digital study Bible/Commentary especially if you wanted to create something that could be shared. Especially handy if it’s on a tablet. There are two possibilities that each have advantages and disadvantages. I mention them because you may wish to consider which option will work before you go too much further into one option.

    Option 1 Notes: with the introduction of the Faithlife Study Bible and the Faithlife Community site we will soon have the ability to share note documents (this is different from Community Notes). If you also wanted to just use this would work. Although depending on how many notes you create your Bibles could end-up a bit cluttered.

    Option 2 Personal Book: A second option is to create a Personal Book. First, once you created the commentary you could Print it out. But at some point we are going to be able to share our PB’s so and they will sync across all platforms and devices (you could use with a Bible and in split screen mode on a mobile device). A Personal Book can also have hyperlinks to your library resources that might work better than they do in notes.

    This is a Commentary Template that has the verse tags needed (you would just copy and paste into a Word .docx file). Also the Personal Books Wiki Page has details on how to create a personal book. You will find MP Seminars :: Videos Quick Clips helpful.

    Hope these might give you some ideas on things you could do. I think your best bet might be to create a Personal Book. Since you can use multiple .docx files to create it so you might wish to do a separate one for each book of the Bible. The benefit of a digital version is you can update your notes.

    Blessings in Christ,

    Philana

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