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NIV, Reader's Bible: Designed for a Seamless Reading Experience
Find a quiet, comfortable spot and enter into the story of God’s Word with the NIV Reader’s Bible. Designed for a seamless reading experience, this Bible contains the complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear NIV translation in single-column format without chapter and verse numbers in the text so you can immerse yourself in the story of Scripture. With footnotes at the back of each book and scripture references elegantly noted at the top of each page, you can smoothly read from Genesis to Revelation while accessing the references you need.
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Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version text Readable single-column, black letter text Line-matched text for the optimum reading experience Verse numbers removed throughout text Footnotes follow every book Scripture reference included at the top of each page Ribbon marker 10.5-point type size
Features:
Complete text of the accurate, readable, and clear New International Version text Readable single-column, black letter text Line-matched text for the optimum reading experience Verse numbers removed throughout text Footnotes follow every book Scripture reference included at the top of each page Ribbon marker 10.5-point type size
1984 pages, Hardcover
Published October 10, 2017
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December 30, 2024
My first time reading the Bible completely thru. This readers version made it enjoyable to read.
May 28, 2021
First sentence: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
This was not my first time to read through the "new" NIV (2011) translation. I have read the A.W. Tozer devotional Bible before.
What I enjoyed about this particular Bible was that it was a Reader's Bible. It has no verse numbers. (It does have chapter numbers.) I also enjoyed the size of the font and that it was single column. Overall, I thought the layout worked great. (It does lay flat!)
It is black letter, not red letter, which is definitely important to me when I'm considering Bibles.
I do recommend that everyone read through the Bible at least once in a reader's Bible. I don't think everyone has to read the NIV translation. Many translations these days have been published in this format. And reading the Bible in an app, you can usually (though not always) make adjustments in the preferences so that you can *make* any translation into a Reader's Bible.
I did use a modified Professor Horner plan to read this one through. I will say I stuck to it except for the past two days when I essentially read all the books I hadn't already read once. (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Revelation).
So my modified Horner had these ten groupings:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Joshua Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Esther
Psalms
Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, REVELATION
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
Matthew, Mark, Luke, Acts, John
Romans and Hebrews
1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and Jude
I think I will change my Horner bookmarks again when I start over next time. It does get a bit uneven. I think this is mainly my fault. Mainly. I tend to read in chunks that make sense--in terms of narrative--instead of a strict one chapter per group.
This was not my first time to read through the "new" NIV (2011) translation. I have read the A.W. Tozer devotional Bible before.
What I enjoyed about this particular Bible was that it was a Reader's Bible. It has no verse numbers. (It does have chapter numbers.) I also enjoyed the size of the font and that it was single column. Overall, I thought the layout worked great. (It does lay flat!)
It is black letter, not red letter, which is definitely important to me when I'm considering Bibles.
I do recommend that everyone read through the Bible at least once in a reader's Bible. I don't think everyone has to read the NIV translation. Many translations these days have been published in this format. And reading the Bible in an app, you can usually (though not always) make adjustments in the preferences so that you can *make* any translation into a Reader's Bible.
I did use a modified Professor Horner plan to read this one through. I will say I stuck to it except for the past two days when I essentially read all the books I hadn't already read once. (Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs, Revelation).
So my modified Horner had these ten groupings:
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy
Joshua Judges, Ruth, 1 Samuel, 2 Samuel, 1 Chronicles, 2 Chronicles, Esther
Psalms
Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Solomon
Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, REVELATION
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Ezra, Nehemiah, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi
Matthew, Mark, Luke, Acts, John
Romans and Hebrews
1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians
1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and Jude
I think I will change my Horner bookmarks again when I start over next time. It does get a bit uneven. I think this is mainly my fault. Mainly. I tend to read in chunks that make sense--in terms of narrative--instead of a strict one chapter per group.
October 10, 2017
Most Americans own a Bible, but few read it. To be more precise, according to LifeWay Research, while 87 percent of all Americans own a Bible, 53 percent have read little to none of it. Only 1 in 5 Americans have read the Bible at least once.
No doubt there are many reasons for this disparity between ownership and readership. The Bible is a big book, for one thing. Differences between ancient culture and contemporary culture mean the Bible is not always easy to understand, for another. Finally, it teaches us about God and His ways. If you think God is easy to understand, think again! As the apostle Paul put it in Romans 11:33: “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!”
Alongside size, age and complexity, I’d like to suggest one more reason why people don’t read the Bible: format. My NIV Thinline is printed with two columns per page and 8.4-point font size. (NIV stands for New International Version, by the way.) It has chapter and verse numbers, section headings and footnotes. Other formats include cross-references on each page.
And then there are study Bibles. My NIV Study Bible has 2,560 pages and weighs in at 5.4 pounds. (Strangely, no one calls it a Fatline even though it’s huge.) In addition to all the above, it has over 20,000 study notes, as well as 400 full-color pictures, maps, charts and illustrations. The biblical text is printed in a readable 10-point font, but everything else is much smaller and therefore harder to read.
Now, there are many advantages to packing all this information into a single-volume Bible. It’s an economical way to provider readers with high-end scholarship they need to understand God’s Word. It also makes the Bible look like a dictionary, encyclopedia or textbook, and we all know how little Americans like to read those.
That’s why I’m glad that so-called Reader’s Bibles are the new trend in Bible publishing. Each page has exactly one column. Font size is bigger. There are no chapter or verse numbers, let alone section headings, footnotes or cross-references. Prose is printed in paragraphs; poetry is printed in stanzas. The Bible is printed like an ordinary book, perfect for ordinary readers.
For some time now, I have used the ESV Reader’s Bible for daily devotional reading. (ESV stands for English Standard Version.) The format makes it easier to read and enjoy Scripture over longer periods of time. The problem is, the ESV is not my preferred translation. The NIV is, but there was no comparable NIV product.
Until now.
This month, Zondervan released the NIV Reader’s Bible with both imitation leather and hardboard covers. It is comparable in size to the ESV Reader’s Bible.
While both the ESV and the NIV are reliable translations, the NIV is typically easier to read, in my opinion. It was updated in 2011 to track changes in the English language since its original publication in 1978.
When you combine the NIV’s ease of reading with the fact that it is the best-selling contemporary translation in the United States, especially among evangelical Christians, using it is an obvious choice. It is likely the translation used by your pastor, in your pew Bible and in Sunday school and small group curriculum. The NIV is a solid translation from reputable scholars in readable English.
And now, the NIV Reader’s Bible puts that readable translation into a readable format. The NIV Reader’s Bible became my go-to devotional Bible the moment I received it. I hope you will give it a look too. The NIV Reader’s Bible will help turn you from a Bible owner to a Bible reader.
Book Reviewed
NIV Reader’s Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017).
P.S. This review was written for InfluenceMagazine.com and appears here by permission.
P.P.S. If you found my review helpful, please vote “Yes” on my Amazon.com review page.
No doubt there are many reasons for this disparity between ownership and readership. The Bible is a big book, for one thing. Differences between ancient culture and contemporary culture mean the Bible is not always easy to understand, for another. Finally, it teaches us about God and His ways. If you think God is easy to understand, think again! As the apostle Paul put it in Romans 11:33: “Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!”
Alongside size, age and complexity, I’d like to suggest one more reason why people don’t read the Bible: format. My NIV Thinline is printed with two columns per page and 8.4-point font size. (NIV stands for New International Version, by the way.) It has chapter and verse numbers, section headings and footnotes. Other formats include cross-references on each page.
And then there are study Bibles. My NIV Study Bible has 2,560 pages and weighs in at 5.4 pounds. (Strangely, no one calls it a Fatline even though it’s huge.) In addition to all the above, it has over 20,000 study notes, as well as 400 full-color pictures, maps, charts and illustrations. The biblical text is printed in a readable 10-point font, but everything else is much smaller and therefore harder to read.
Now, there are many advantages to packing all this information into a single-volume Bible. It’s an economical way to provider readers with high-end scholarship they need to understand God’s Word. It also makes the Bible look like a dictionary, encyclopedia or textbook, and we all know how little Americans like to read those.
That’s why I’m glad that so-called Reader’s Bibles are the new trend in Bible publishing. Each page has exactly one column. Font size is bigger. There are no chapter or verse numbers, let alone section headings, footnotes or cross-references. Prose is printed in paragraphs; poetry is printed in stanzas. The Bible is printed like an ordinary book, perfect for ordinary readers.
For some time now, I have used the ESV Reader’s Bible for daily devotional reading. (ESV stands for English Standard Version.) The format makes it easier to read and enjoy Scripture over longer periods of time. The problem is, the ESV is not my preferred translation. The NIV is, but there was no comparable NIV product.
Until now.
This month, Zondervan released the NIV Reader’s Bible with both imitation leather and hardboard covers. It is comparable in size to the ESV Reader’s Bible.
While both the ESV and the NIV are reliable translations, the NIV is typically easier to read, in my opinion. It was updated in 2011 to track changes in the English language since its original publication in 1978.
When you combine the NIV’s ease of reading with the fact that it is the best-selling contemporary translation in the United States, especially among evangelical Christians, using it is an obvious choice. It is likely the translation used by your pastor, in your pew Bible and in Sunday school and small group curriculum. The NIV is a solid translation from reputable scholars in readable English.
And now, the NIV Reader’s Bible puts that readable translation into a readable format. The NIV Reader’s Bible became my go-to devotional Bible the moment I received it. I hope you will give it a look too. The NIV Reader’s Bible will help turn you from a Bible owner to a Bible reader.
Book Reviewed
NIV Reader’s Bible (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2017).
P.S. This review was written for InfluenceMagazine.com and appears here by permission.
P.P.S. If you found my review helpful, please vote “Yes” on my Amazon.com review page.
January 31, 2018
The NIV Reader's Bible is a unique type of Bible that some people will find very interesting. Think of it like a text-only Bible, but a much different reading experience than what most people have had before. It's almost like reading the Bible as a novel.
Reader's Bibles are designed slightly different between them, but they all have a similar concept where they remove the blatant breaks within the text by either moving or removing altogether the chapter and verse numbering.
This is not a new concept, but rather an original concept since chapter numbers were not introduced in Bibles until roughly the 1200s and the verse numbers in the 1500s. This particular Reader's Bible does it in a way where the design does allow you to know fairly close as to what portion of each book you are in without deterring the reading experience. Overall, it really is very clean and well designed.
With a very pleasant 10 point font, if you are looking for a Bible that you can immerse yourself in the story of the Bible without distractions, then the NIV Reader's Bible is one that you may want to strongly consider. No study notes, no articles, chapter numbers are very subtle in the margin, no verse numbers within the text. Even the translator's footnotes have been moved to the last pages within each book of the Bible.
I received a copy of this Bible from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
Reader's Bibles are designed slightly different between them, but they all have a similar concept where they remove the blatant breaks within the text by either moving or removing altogether the chapter and verse numbering.
This is not a new concept, but rather an original concept since chapter numbers were not introduced in Bibles until roughly the 1200s and the verse numbers in the 1500s. This particular Reader's Bible does it in a way where the design does allow you to know fairly close as to what portion of each book you are in without deterring the reading experience. Overall, it really is very clean and well designed.
With a very pleasant 10 point font, if you are looking for a Bible that you can immerse yourself in the story of the Bible without distractions, then the NIV Reader's Bible is one that you may want to strongly consider. No study notes, no articles, chapter numbers are very subtle in the margin, no verse numbers within the text. Even the translator's footnotes have been moved to the last pages within each book of the Bible.
I received a copy of this Bible from the publisher in exchange for my honest review.
March 2, 2021
My wife and I are currently using this Bible for our daily Bible reading as we read through the whole Bible this year. We really enjoy the flow of the text. I highly recommend it!
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