{"id":232,"date":"2006-02-04T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-05T02:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/?p=232"},"modified":"2006-02-04T19:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-05T02:52:00","slug":"free-bible-software-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/04\/free-bible-software-update\/","title":{"rendered":"(Free) Bible Software Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bibleplaces.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/best-software-bible-program-followup.html\">Bible software<\/a> and a good follow-up to that post is this review of<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fostertribe.org\/biblesoftware.html\"> 6 different free programs<\/a>, including Swordsearcher, e-Sword, BiblePro, Theophilos, The Sword Project, and the Online Bible.  The reviewer concludes thus:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Narrowing the field down to Swordsearcher and e-Sword was easy; picking the final winner was not.     I went back and forth trying to come up with a clear winner, but in the end I gave up.  My conclusion     is that both of them do about 90% of what I need, and therefore I was going to have to go against     my anal-retentive inclinations and leave both products installed on my box.<\/p>\n<p>I have come down on the side of Swordsearcher for general day-to-day use, using it to do my research and enter my own     commentaries and works.  However I switch to e-Sword when I need to find text in a contemporary translation,     or need to see a parallel view of a passage from different translations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fostertribe.org\/biblesoftware.html\">all<\/a> to see the pros and cons of the various programs and which would best suit your needs.<\/p>\n<p>HT: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bsreview.org\/weblog\/2006\/01\/freeinexpensive-bible-software.html\">Bible Software Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a month ago, I posted on Bible software and a good follow-up to that post is this review of 6 different free programs, including Swordsearcher, e-Sword, BiblePro, Theophilos, The Sword Project, and the Online Bible. The reviewer concludes thus: Narrowing the field down to Swordsearcher and e-Sword was easy; picking the final winner was\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/04\/free-bible-software-update\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toddbolen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}