From my research online and in Lifeway Stores, I have found that many current owners find that this is a major setback for this great Bible and have verified these claims personally by checking the Bible in store.īe that as it may, I beseech thee to print these Bibles on thicker, heavier paper! I am planning on purchasing the Premium Calfskin Leather edition of this Bible, and want the paper to be thick enough to write notes in the margins, underline/highlight text, etc. I am inquiring about the ESV Single Column Reference Bible, and am particularly concerned about how the paper is too thin in it. To see the original email I sent to Crossway, click here: (For good deals on ESV Bibles, try Amazon or Westminster Bookstore) I hope this helps in your shopping decisions, especially if you are an ESV fan. Good News Publishers/Crossway Books & Bibles In the meantime, it may interest you to know that our blog recently linked to another blog post where a gentleman discusses the use of archival quality pens in Bibles, which among other things seems to reduce bleedthrough. What you have said is important to us, and it will be given due consideration. Please be assured that we take all feedback from Bible readers very seriously.
Some folks have informed us that they would appreciate having thicker paper in these Bibles regardless of the size implications. In order to keep the Single Column Reference Bible from being too thick, we used a relatively thin paper in it. Single column formatting, as you may know, dramatically increases the number of pages in a Bible (mostly due to the poetry sections, where each line of poetry takes up an entire line of paper space). We do not have any immediate plans to publish the Single Column Reference Bible with thicker paper than the editions that are currently available. Thank you for taking the time to express your disappointment with the paper quality of our ESV Bibles, and specifically our Single Column Reference Bible. Here is the email response I received from Crossway (emphasis mine): For this reason, I contacted the ESV publisher, Crossway Bibles, recently to voice my concern. Even when I use these new Staedtler pigment liner pens that use archival ink, bleeding cannot be avoided, though I try hard not to keep my fancy pigment pens on the Bible pages long. I have a pocket ESV and a Classic Thinline, and recently just received the ESV Literary Study Bible, and can testify that this is a big issue for me - the text on the other side of a page is seen and your pen markings can easily bleed through to the other side. the paper is very thin, too thin actually for intensive notetaking (as reported by numerous customers online). The only downside to the ESV Single Column Reference is the thickness of the paper for making notes/underlining/etc. A great alternative to ESV’s SCR Premium Calfskin is the Allan’s Reference ESV, reviewed in its Tan Highland Goatskin and Black Highland Goatskin do note that the Allan’s is not SCR but has the Classic Reference layout, is the old 2001 ESV text, British-ized, and is uber expensive with the current exchange rate!) (Check out a review of the ESV Single Column Reference here. It is the ideal Bible that I want for teaching/preaching due to its large, single-column text which makes finding a verse quickly very easily.
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It is a superb Bible that lies plump flat when you open it, with large fonts, wide margins, a single-column layout with full cross-referencing, where every verse (of the updated 2007 ESV text) starts on a new line. In 2011 the ESV was selected by the Catholic Church for its lectionary in English speaking countries.For a while now, I have been planning to purchase the ESV Single Column Reference Bible in the Premium Calfskin Leather. It has also been anglicised for the British market. The ESV comes in various editions including a Study Bible, and is often used in diglots with other languages. It is also a revision of the 1971 edition of the Revised Standard Version (RSV). It is a new edition of the Bible, first printed in 2001 by Crossway Bibles and revised recently in 2011. It was produced by evangelical scholars looking to produce a modern, readable, literal and accurate translation, yet one that stands in the tradition of the King James Version of 1611 (also know as the Authorised Version). It attempts to render each Hebrew or Greek word with one equivalent English word, making it an excellent tool for detailed Bible study. The English Standard Version (ESV) Bible incorporates recent advances in scholarship and modern language while retaining many traditional, conservative theological terms.
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