Posted on 05/31/2009 3:13:10 PM PDT by bronxville
Catholic combines faith, high-tech savvy to invent new Bible format
WASHINGTON (CNS) -- One of the oldest and most read books in the world now has a new, high-tech look. And it weighs only 5 grams, or one-hundredth of a pound. "God on the Go" is a USB flash drive containing the complete Bible in the New Revised Standard Version or the New Testament of the New American Bible. It is currently available only for PCs but a Mac-compatible version is expected out this summer.
Inventor Mark Mastroianni, a member of St. Edna Parish in Arlington Heights, Ill., said in a telephone interview with Catholic News Service that the idea for "God on the Go" came to him in prayer when he was asking God how he could bring together his Catholic faith and his background in technology and product development. "Why not combine the Bible with commonly used and readily accessible technological platforms?" he recalled thinking.
After months of research and talks with the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which holds the U.S. copyright on the New American Bible, "God on the Go" was born. Mastroianni was pleased to learn that the device also offers the ecologically aware a "green" alternative to the printed Bible, since the thin pages of most Bibles require the use of a specialty ink that is "very toxic to users and in the manufacturing process." "God on the Go" is available through Acta Publications, www.actapublications.com, and at bookstores.
I guess I am missing the technological significance of this. I have the English Standard on my Blackberry for free.
Not only is this not very significant (it could have been done five years ago!), but it won’t sell well either because it’s in an inconvenient format. Kids use cellphones/blackberries/iphones to read things on the web. They use flashdrives to carry around their term papers and music backups.
gee, what, is it in txtmsg 4mat?
Come to think of it, if the NAB is available on Amazon’s Kindle (I have no idea), then this is really an outdated approach.
By the way, the ESV Study Bible is on Kindle now.
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Me too only on my iPhone. I also have the rosary, the chaplet of Divine Mercy and audio versions of the Book of John and Romans. I might download Max McLean’s audio version of the whole Bible onto my iPhone but have it on disk and also listen to it on line every morning so not seeing the necessity.
There's a "green" alternative to owning a home - you sleep under a tree at night. There's also a "green" alternative to wearing shoes - just go barefoot. And a "green" alternative to using chemicals for washing your clothes & bathing - just stop doing it. Funny how the logical extension of "green" alternatives produces a lifestyle the homeless would recognize. At least 'Earth First!' is (or was) honest about it: they adopted the slogan "Back to the Pleistocene!"
I have the entire King James in a single PDF.
Olive Tree offers Bible versions for download to your cell phone - including Douay-Rheims, NAB, King James, and others.
I have the Bible on my iPhone as a free application also. I also have the stations of the cross, the rosary, and the Catholic calendar. It is great!
I even have the complete works of Shakespeare on my iPhone, for free.
Isn’t life great? Our forefathers used to carry a rosary and perhaps a little medal in their pockets. Now we can have the whole Bible with us! I can search for certain scripture passages, words, themes, etc. Wonderful!
Ack! that's my geographical parish. I avoid it like the plague, because they practically never say both the Creed and the Gloria there. And the one priest used to set the Precious Blood on the floor of the Sanctuary for people to pick up and serve themselves during daily Mass.
No Douhay-Rheims, no thanks.
And here was me thinking this was a whole new thing - still using tapes myself so what do I know.
there is also a divine office podcast...I keep this on my mp3 player...and the bishops have the daily mass readings in mp3 form.
as for the bible, lots of text versions for free downloads on line..
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