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Ecclesiastes
We want our lives to have meaning, so we try to find significance through worldly pursuits. We may even feel satisfied for a time. But when those moments fade—and they always do—the emptiness returns. As long as we view life from a human perspective, nothing really matters. That’s why it’s easy to relate to the author of Ecclesiastes when he declares everything to be meaningless. His journey is our journey.
The book of Ecclesiastes will teach you how to live in an unjust world dedicated to the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, and power. You’ll see that trying to find satisfaction through pleasure, work, or intellect is fruitless—but that life with God at the center is fulfilling. By examining the text’s meanings and interpretations, you will discover that Ecclesiastes points us toward Jesus, the ultimate answer to the emptiness we all experience.
Includes study aids and questions for group discussion or personal study. 8 lessons.
The book of Ecclesiastes will teach you how to live in an unjust world dedicated to the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, and power. You’ll see that trying to find satisfaction through pleasure, work, or intellect is fruitless—but that life with God at the center is fulfilling. By examining the text’s meanings and interpretations, you will discover that Ecclesiastes points us toward Jesus, the ultimate answer to the emptiness we all experience.
Includes study aids and questions for group discussion or personal study. 8 lessons.
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155 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 12, 2013
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October 2, 2025
For Vision Impaired Patrons - not there yet
I am vision impaired. Everyone thought using Kindle would make my life easier because you can set how big your font has to be for easier reading. This is true - but there are several other issues.
At the bottom of each page it tells you what percentage of the book is finished and it gives you the page number that correlates with your copy with your size font. It doesn't give you the actual page number from the printed copy of the book.
I have been using Kindle for books in classes and Bible Studies. Everyone else in the class and the teacher are referring to page number - which I cannot find because my Kindle doesn't correlate page numbers to the actual book.
Because it is difficult to switch back and forth between programs for notetaking I decided it would be easier to enter my class notes as an actual "note" within Kindle that woud be attached to the appropriate text. These note taking capablilities are not at all vision accessible. In the Kindle display,, the note icon is tooo small, I often can't ffind them in the text. It would be helpful if the note icon were as large as a letter - or at the very least, half the size of a letter. But no matter how much I expand the text, the note icon stays the same, too small for me to locate it.
Another problem, within the note itself there is no way to increase the font size - and it is too small for me to read without magnifiers.
I recently discovered ways to view my annotations - these includes any highlighting that I select for inclusion and my notes. It is very handy. However, you can't change the font here - but it does seem to increase as the font in the text increases, (not quite 100% but manageable). In order to make sense of my annotations, I highlight the question or phrase I am referencing. Kindle keeps track of each of these highlightings and counts it as "copied material". The program keep a running tally of how much of the book you have copied - with a limit - which might change with each author (I am not sure about that as yet) But it is always way too small for a person who needs to use the text this way in order to read their notes and make sense of them.
I actually find a PDF easier to use because I can manipulate the text anyway I need to in order to read it and I can add notes that are the same font size. I just use different font colors to indicate my notes in the text.
Kindle recently made some changes on file formats they support. These changes make it more difficult to swap between PDF's and other eBook formats. I’m fairly sure they are just protecting their exclusive use of the books they they are selling. I had changed many of my PDF's to Kindle format thinking it would be easier to read - now I am finding that if it is a book I need to use and interact with - I have to switch them to a PDF in order to more easily use them and to ensure they don't just disappear at the whim of contracts with Publishers, Authors and Kindle.
This is another issue. The whole world has now moved to a system that looks like we are buying books, music, etc . . . But we are just renting them. For years th ings would disappear and I thought I was going crazy - but it was a part of the renting plan. Some things you need to ensure you can keep. (Like reference books from College courses.) You can’t ensure a Kindle book will always be there and you can’t lend them to a friend or resell them. We are just renting these books. (I have almost a thousand Audible books and really regret that I can’t share them with friends or leave the library to my children.)
Kindle does so many things correct. They have obviously taken to heart the need for vision impaired people to read books. They have not gotten into the more complex buried issues that a vision impaired person needs to actually be able to interact with text.
I bought a reader so I can have the books read to me. This is really only useful for pleasaure reading, I need a lot more to be able to study and interact with a text.
I am vision impaired. Everyone thought using Kindle would make my life easier because you can set how big your font has to be for easier reading. This is true - but there are several other issues.
At the bottom of each page it tells you what percentage of the book is finished and it gives you the page number that correlates with your copy with your size font. It doesn't give you the actual page number from the printed copy of the book.
I have been using Kindle for books in classes and Bible Studies. Everyone else in the class and the teacher are referring to page number - which I cannot find because my Kindle doesn't correlate page numbers to the actual book.
Because it is difficult to switch back and forth between programs for notetaking I decided it would be easier to enter my class notes as an actual "note" within Kindle that woud be attached to the appropriate text. These note taking capablilities are not at all vision accessible. In the Kindle display,, the note icon is tooo small, I often can't ffind them in the text. It would be helpful if the note icon were as large as a letter - or at the very least, half the size of a letter. But no matter how much I expand the text, the note icon stays the same, too small for me to locate it.
Another problem, within the note itself there is no way to increase the font size - and it is too small for me to read without magnifiers.
I recently discovered ways to view my annotations - these includes any highlighting that I select for inclusion and my notes. It is very handy. However, you can't change the font here - but it does seem to increase as the font in the text increases, (not quite 100% but manageable). In order to make sense of my annotations, I highlight the question or phrase I am referencing. Kindle keeps track of each of these highlightings and counts it as "copied material". The program keep a running tally of how much of the book you have copied - with a limit - which might change with each author (I am not sure about that as yet) But it is always way too small for a person who needs to use the text this way in order to read their notes and make sense of them.
I actually find a PDF easier to use because I can manipulate the text anyway I need to in order to read it and I can add notes that are the same font size. I just use different font colors to indicate my notes in the text.
Kindle recently made some changes on file formats they support. These changes make it more difficult to swap between PDF's and other eBook formats. I’m fairly sure they are just protecting their exclusive use of the books they they are selling. I had changed many of my PDF's to Kindle format thinking it would be easier to read - now I am finding that if it is a book I need to use and interact with - I have to switch them to a PDF in order to more easily use them and to ensure they don't just disappear at the whim of contracts with Publishers, Authors and Kindle.
This is another issue. The whole world has now moved to a system that looks like we are buying books, music, etc . . . But we are just renting them. For years th ings would disappear and I thought I was going crazy - but it was a part of the renting plan. Some things you need to ensure you can keep. (Like reference books from College courses.) You can’t ensure a Kindle book will always be there and you can’t lend them to a friend or resell them. We are just renting these books. (I have almost a thousand Audible books and really regret that I can’t share them with friends or leave the library to my children.)
Kindle does so many things correct. They have obviously taken to heart the need for vision impaired people to read books. They have not gotten into the more complex buried issues that a vision impaired person needs to actually be able to interact with text.
I bought a reader so I can have the books read to me. This is really only useful for pleasaure reading, I need a lot more to be able to study and interact with a text.
November 18, 2015
I found this study helpful to my understanding of Ecclesiastes, but I wouldn't recommend going through it on your own unless you are amazing at personal inductive Bible study -- a challenge to say the least!
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