On the bookcase in my office I have a copy of the Archaeological Study Bible (NIV), the MacArthur Study Bible (NASB) and The Apologetics Study Bible (HCSB). Today, if you drop by my home in the early morning, you are likely to see me reading from the Literary Study Bible, also in the ESV. I used that Bible daily for many years though it was eventually replaced by a New Geneva Study Bible in the NKJV translation and after that by a Reformation Study Bible in the ESV. It was many years ago, probably in the late 80’s, that my parents gave me the gift of a brand new NIV Study Bible. I hope you are hearing this demand from your customers! I look forward to your response & any information on how long before new paper can be expected in these Bibles.I still remember getting my first study Bible. I am happy with the Bibles, but both also have this same ink-bleeding-through-page issue also when I write on the pages. I currently own an ESV Compact TruTone & Classic Thinline Bonded Leather. From my research online and in Lifeway Stores, I have found that many current owners find that this is a major setback for this great Bible and have verified these claims personally by checking the Bible in store.īe that as it may, I beseech thee to print these Bibles on thicker, heavier paper! I am planning on purchasing the Premium Calfskin Leather edition of this Bible, and want the paper to be thick enough to write notes in the margins, underline/highlight text, etc. I am inquiring about the ESV Single Column Reference Bible, and am particularly concerned about how the paper is too thin in it. To see the original email I sent to Crossway, click here: (For good deals on ESV Bibles, try Amazon or Westminster Bookstore) I hope this helps in your shopping decisions, especially if you are an ESV fan. Good News Publishers/Crossway Books & Bibles In the meantime, it may interest you to know that our blog recently linked to another blog post where a gentleman discusses the use of archival quality pens in Bibles, which among other things seems to reduce bleedthrough. What you have said is important to us, and it will be given due consideration.
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Some folks have informed us that they would appreciate having thicker paper in these Bibles regardless of the size implications. In order to keep the Single Column Reference Bible from being too thick, we used a relatively thin paper in it. Single column formatting, as you may know, dramatically increases the number of pages in a Bible (mostly due to the poetry sections, where each line of poetry takes up an entire line of paper space). We do not have any immediate plans to publish the Single Column Reference Bible with thicker paper than the editions that are currently available. Thank you for taking the time to express your disappointment with the paper quality of our ESV Bibles, and specifically our Single Column Reference Bible. Here is the email response I received from Crossway (emphasis mine): For this reason, I contacted the ESV publisher, Crossway Bibles, recently to voice my concern. Even when I use these new Staedtler pigment liner pens that use archival ink, bleeding cannot be avoided, though I try hard not to keep my fancy pigment pens on the Bible pages long. I have a pocket ESV and a Classic Thinline, and recently just received the ESV Literary Study Bible, and can testify that this is a big issue for me - the text on the other side of a page is seen and your pen markings can easily bleed through to the other side. the paper is very thin, too thin actually for intensive notetaking (as reported by numerous customers online). The only downside to the ESV Single Column Reference is the thickness of the paper for making notes/underlining/etc. A great alternative to ESV’s SCR Premium Calfskin is the Allan’s Reference ESV, reviewed in its Tan Highland Goatskin and Black Highland Goatskin do note that the Allan’s is not SCR but has the Classic Reference layout, is the old 2001 ESV text, British-ized, and is uber expensive with the current exchange rate!)
(Check out a review of the ESV Single Column Reference here. It is the ideal Bible that I want for teaching/preaching due to its large, single-column text which makes finding a verse quickly very easily.
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It is a superb Bible that lies plump flat when you open it, with large fonts, wide margins, a single-column layout with full cross-referencing, where every verse (of the updated 2007 ESV text) starts on a new line. For a while now, I have been planning to purchase the ESV Single Column Reference Bible in the Premium Calfskin Leather.
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