Comments on: My Review: ESV Personal Size Reference Bible

By: Marking Your Bible « Hope Road

Marking Your Bible « Hope Road — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:06:19 +0000

[...] been using my Personal Size Reference Bible for 2.5 years now. A few weeks ago, I found an old Thinline that I’d never underlined. I [...]

By: Steven

Steven — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 05:30:13 +0000

The King James is the word of God perfectly preserved. If it’s not, then you believe God lied and you believe hundreds of “Bibles” have error and therefore you accuse God of being incapable to keep his promise and preserve his word.

By: Seeking Disciple

Seeking Disciple — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:13:48 +0000

Good post. I recently had my ESV PRB sent off to Leonard’s Rebinding to have it rebound for about $90. I can’t wait to do a review of it on my blog.

I enjoy your blog and I pray that you have a very merry Christmas.

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 23:18:43 +0000

Yes, Erik, thanks for sharing your find! It’s nice to know there are a couple of sewn TruTone editions!

By: a husband

a husband — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:13:50 +0000

Wow, thanks Erik! Your find on that blog was great. I called Crossway and found out that their original black true-tone is still glued, but that those two newer versions are in fact sewn. They said they’d probably get the black sewn when they finally sell out of them.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:47:41 +0000

I just checked the ESV Blog and two of the TruTone Personal Size Reference Bibles are in fact, SEWN. Here it the link:

http://www.esv.org/blog/2008/05/summer.2008.esvs

Yes, yes, and yes!!!!!!!!!

It feels so good to know that in the future I can put cowhide, calfskin or the granddaddy of them all, highland goatskin on my Bible because of it being sewn and NOT glued.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 05:34:05 +0000

Anna,

I just purchased my new ESV Personal Size Reference Bible TruTone,Forest/Tan, Trail Design last night (10-25-08).

Your review mentioned that the soft cover PSRB’s are glued. I looked on the binding and it looked like it might have been sewn, however that wasn’t really what made me think this. What makes me think that it was sewn or have at least a “hybrid” glue binding is the fact that there are threads every 64 pages following page 17 (Genesis 19 & 20).

Maybe I’m just wishful thinking, but I think this ESV Personal Size Reference Bible just might be at least a mixture of both sewn and glued. Let me know what you think about this. Keep posting such fantastic reviews!

Thanks,

- Erik

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:02:08 +0000

Thanks for that link, Rachael! I do like the cool mint cover, too. And even the genuine leather is cheaper there than it is on Amazon.com (although I don’t know how shipping would affect that).

By: Rachael

Rachael — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 21:50:09 +0000

Hey – I think I came across this post some time ago, but today I actually SAW the one column ESL Bible and it’s really neat. So cute, first of all (nice green cover). Also appears to have the ability to stay open (well I guess my tiny one does that as well). And the one column thing is really neat.

Here’s a link to Westminster Bookstore, where you can order it for $16.49:

http://www.wtsbooks.com/category-exec/category_id/572/nm/Personal_20Size_20Reference_20Bibles/parent_id/21

By: Anna

Anna — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:52:25 +0000

Stephanie, I think the NASB is my second favorite. If you really like it, don’t give in to all this ESV pressure! My friend who kept the TruTone really likes the NASB as well.

The poetic books have a lot of extra white space; I don’t think the other margins are especially big. There’s a PDF sample of Matthew here.