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The Notemaker's Bible is basically a standard New Living Translation (1996) text Bible with one major difference. It has eight blank lines at the bottom of each page and wide margins on the outer side of the page so it is easy to make notes right on the page. This gives you an opportunity to create your own study Bible with the things that are important to you, to journalize your thoughts as you read, or anything else that might be important to you.

The front matter of the Bible also includes the Tyndale Bible Verse Finder which is basically a concise topical index helping you locate a verse not by words it contains but by the subject of the verse. If you like to be able to write notes in your Bible and never really had the room for all the comments you wanted to make then you should take a look at the Notemaker's Bible. It may be just what you need.

A new standard for wide margins has been set. For once a bible publisher finally gets it right when it come to publishing a wide margin. The bible has 1.5 inch margin, one-column design, which reduces the need to write in the gutter. An easy to read type font and not that 8 font in most wide margin today. The type is a 10.5 font; in fact I asked the publisher and I inspected the bible at the bookstore on this font. Here are some other details of the bible... lines at the bottom of the page for additional note or journaling thoughts. The additional lines at the bottom are an outstanding idea and we should give that person a raise for getting this in the final bible product. There are also two ribbons for easy marking. No references which allows students of the bible to make there own notes. This bible out paces the NIV Wide Margin, Thompson Chain Wide Margin, NKJV Wide Margin, and the various KJV Wide Margin Bibles. I would say at this point the 2nd World Class Wide margin Bible is Charles Stanley's In Touch Ministries NASB Wide Margin Bible and the 3rd World Class daddy of them all for as a notetaking bible would be a good interleaved bible as the KJV Classic Note Bible. I would hope that the Bible publisher's would take a real hard look at the new standard in a wide margin bible.

What are the negatives...each of us would find some negatives based on their own inspection. I personally would not used the NLT for serious study as well as using it as my note taking bible. But other than that I do not see any other negatives yet. Feel free to make your own judgement about this bible.

I have talked to many publishers and they say to do wide margin cost them money and there is no real market for them. With many of us adults as well as our young people, being encouraged to take notes in church, I believe there is a need.

Wake up publishers there is a new star in town with the right format for a wide margin. And good people out there, let our voices be heard for the other bible versions to follow suit in this format for a wide margin soon.

Rodney

I'm a seminary student and this Bible is perfect for me. I can toss it in my backpack or purse because of it's compact size. But with compact size comes rather small print!

At first I didn't think this portable Bible was very readable. A magnifier solves the problem of small print, but as others have noted about these "go anywhere" Bibles, the paper is so thin that text on the other side shows through. If you cut a piece of black paper to size, though, and put it behind the page you're reading, the problem is solved. So this is very usable after all, even for older eyes -- and the size and weight are wonderful.

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This bible is an excellent choice when looking to purchase one. It has everything you might need to study the Word of God. It contains references, inserts, a concordance, and so much more! This one is in Spanish, and was definitely a good buy!

This bilingual bible is of great quality. The cover is unique and more attractive than anything I found in the local stores.

The bi lingual bible I purchased is very nice. I like it very much. It's easy to read and you can't beat the price I paid.

Taking this trip back in time was particularly sweet. The story of this family struggling to do the right thing, finding different ways to achieve success is an inspiring one. I found a renewed faith in the goodness of distant generation.

One of the joys of reading is losing yourself in a good story. The fact that the story is based on truth makes it even more delectable. Set in the Victorian era, the women of the Raub family become connected to women of all ages as they rise to the challenges of life's trials with God's grace and human fortitude. My spirit was enriched as I rapidly turned the pages of this remarkable book.

This devotional is written in everyday language. Its ideas are lofty, but not pretentious, its verse is fluent but not unreadable. The author had the "every day" person in mind when he assembled this devotional. It's worth owning an every day copy.

This devotional book is wonderful. It draws us into the Lord's presence by focusing us upon His Word and letting it sink down deep. I have used this book for about a month now as a guide in times of quiet meditation upon the Lord each day, "chewing" on each passage of Scripture throughout the day. Allowing the Lord to speak to us through His Word is exactly what is needed in these days where we are surrounded by so many other voices. This book is a faithful guide in helping us to focus upon that One Voice that is needed above all the rest. Each day the book gives a passage of Scripture to meditate on, a short devotional and a quote -- all of which center us upon the words of Jesus. I highly recommend it as a "springboard" in your times of private worship. Just sit long enough to let the Lord speak to you and really hear what He is saying. You won't be disappointed.

I ordered this bible for myself last year, and I love it. My husband started using it and since love it so much, I asked him if he wanted his own. Hence, I brought another one. We love the large print since our eyes are getting dim. It is very difficult to find such an outstanding study bible in a large print. This is my favorite study bible because it does not weigh you down with the commentary. It helps you to learn God's word on your own with the translations and reference scriptures right in the passage.

Great Bible, I have that is 20 yrs old just thought I would treat myself to a new one. This one will stay at home on my desk to study, my old goes with me to church. It is concise and easy to find everything, it has just enough extra information that you are not inundated with stuff you might never need or use it goes where ever you go without any problems

My mom gave this book to my husband as a Christmas gift, and he absolutely loved it! I think it was his favorite gift this year. It is full of fabulous prayers for all family occasions, novenas, mysteries of the Rosary, Stations of the Cross, Scripture readings for each day of the year, and Spiritual readings for liturgical seasons. It even has a section about Marriage and the Family and a section for Family records. This would be a great gift for any family!

This is a quality Catholic Prayer Book. Any Family who love their faith will find this traditional prayerbook really handy and complete. Would make a great gift for your friends and loved ones. Stunning gold edge pages, and the pure white leather brings out the beautifully embossed gold cross on the front cover. I love it. God Love you.

Once upon a time, I had a terrible cold. I dropped by the library and took out a copy of The Old Curiosity Shop, went home, huddled in my bed for four days, and devoured it. It was the best cold I ever had! Upon returning the book I noticed there was a whole collection of Dickens put out by Oxford...lovely hardcovers with illustrations. Years went by and I saved my pennies and finally bought the entire 21 volume collection. It was the best thing I ever did for myself! Certainly worth every cent, I then continued to devour the rest of Dickens. Oxford puts out fine books, but nothing as wonderful as this collection of Charles Dickens works, which ought to reside in everyone's library. Buy it and you will begin to look forward to those colds!!

This collection is great for all those Dickens fans out there who also love illustrations. While the quality of the illustrations is not as good as can be found elsewhere, the set remains a true prize to any nineteenth-century literature-loving reader. Bite the bullet and enjoy!

The 1598 loss of their theater's lease should have been a major blow to the Lord Chamberlain's Men, one of Elizabethan England's premier acting troupes, who had gained even more popularity by teaming up with one Will Shakespeare, a Warwickshire glover's son come to London some six years earlier in pursuit of his Muse, leaving behind a wife and three children; daughter Susanna, born but seven months into his marriage, and twins Hamnet and Judith, who'd followed two years later. Yet, what to another company might have spelled "present death" only brought greater fame and fortune to the one boasting, in addition to Master Shakespeare's talents, those of Richard Burbage: not only a superb tragedian but also his troupe's financier and, together with brother Cuthbert, happily able to afford the construction of a new theater in Bankside, on the opposite side of the River Thames. Prophetically, the company named their new home "The Globe" and endowed it with a motto which, in approximate translation, audiences of one of the first plays produced there - "As You Like It" - would soon also hear pronounced from the stage, and which sums up the essence of the Bard's plays better than anything else: "Totus mundus agit histrionem" - "All the world's a stage."

The new playhouse's name and motto were apposite not only because the era did indeed consider a stage a model of the world (the area above was referred to as heaven, the area below as hell, and characters would often appear accordingly: as such, Hamlet's father is heard crying "below [stage]" after his encounter with the Prince), but first and foremost because Shakespeare's plays themselves, individually as well as collectively, represent a microcosm of human relationships and behavior virtually unparalleled to this day: Laced with murderous schemes, revenge, and the search for justice, love, and peace of mind, but also comedy, all-too-human fallibility and great nobility of spirit, they delve into the human mind's darkest recesses and soar to its greatest heights; exploring greed, envy, ambition, guilt, remorse and pure evil, next to compassion, generosity, humility, innocence, fidelity, cleverness, boundless cheers and optimism; all interwoven in timeless plots unmatched in wit, variety, construction, and richness of characters.

Yet, for all this, the biggest difficulty remaining to modern editors and readers alike is that while Shakespeare himself didn't seek the publication of his plays, in the absence of anything approximating modern copyright laws, he was unable to prevent their publication by others, in so-called "quarto" editions, often based on unreliable transcripts made during or after a performance. Only after his death, in 1623, his former fellow-actors John Hemmings and Henry Condell published 37 of his plays "cured and perfect of their limbs" - i.e., restored to their author's true intentions - in a volume since referred to as the "First Folio."

Alas, authoritative weight though it has, even the latter doesn't conclusively answer what the Bard intended as the final version of these 37 plays. For one thing, research shows that even some of the Folio texts were edited by others; most prominently so "Macbeth," where Thomas Middleton inserted, inter alia, the witch queen Hecate as an additional character. Secondly, quarto editions of several plays published prior to the "First Folio" (especially of "Henry IV Part 2," "Hamlet," "Troilus and Cressida," "Othello," and "King Lear") are widely believed to represent earlier (or rival) drafts written by Shakespeare himself, and thus accorded considerable authoritative weight of their own. Often, these plays are therefore presented (both in print and on stage) by "conflating" both versions' texts. In the interest of purity, the editors of this particular volume have eschewed that approach, choosing instead to reproduce the Folio text throughout (with gently modernized spelling), because this was probably the text originally used on stage, and appending the passages most frequently added from the rivaling quartos at the end of the respective plays. Thus, this edition's reader will find Hamlet musing in "To be, or not to be" about "enterprises of great pith and moment" whose currents "turn awry and lose the name of action" (not "of great pitch and moment," as in the 1604 "Second Quarto"); he will, however, have to consult the appendix to find the Prince's reflections on that "stamp of one defect" so prominently featuring in Sir Laurence Olivier's movie, or his vows of "bloody thoughts" after encountering Fortinbras. Only in the case of "Lear," the editors chose to fully include both rivaling versions - that of the First Folio and that of the 1608 quarto - because here, the omission of entire scenes and reassignment of numerous pieces of dialogue essentially transforms the Folio text into a new play vis-a-vis the 1608 quarto.

As painstakingly researched and an as obvious labor of love as this work's first edition, the second edition moreover restores the plays' original titles ("All Is True" instead of "Henry VIII," etc.), and also contains Shakespeare's long poems and sonnets, brief accounts on the lost plays ("Cardenio," "Love's Labour's Won"), and - with appropriate caveats - the texts of works of only partial/uncertain attribution, such as "The Two Noble Kinsmen," sundry poetry, and (for the first time) "Edward III," as well as the editorially and topically so problematic "Sir Thomas More."

Background and supplemental materials include introductions to Shakespeare's life, career and language and on the Elizabethan theater, a user's guide, a list of contemporary references to the Bard, commendatory poems and prefaces of his works (including those of the "First Folio"), a glossary, an ample reading list, as well as a short introduction to each work. At well over 1000 pages a brick even in paperback format, this isn't the place to turn for a complete scholarly review of any given play - for that, the reader is well-advised to consult this volume's "Textual Companion" or one of the many excellent editions of the individual plays - but a marvelously-presented one-volume resource on the legacy of the playwright whose works, as already friendly rival Ben Jonson rightly prophesied, would last "for all time."

Also recommended:
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford Shakespeare)
Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story (Vintage)
Shakespeare: For All Time (Oxford Shakespeare)
The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare: 38 Fully-Dramatized Plays
BBC Shakespeare Tragedies DVD Giftbox
Olivier's Shakespeare - Criterion Collection (Hamlet / Henry V / Richard III)
William Shakespeare's Hamlet (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Henry V
Richard III
Peter Brook's King Lear

Great Compilation of the works of Shakespeare. Something my daughter had to have while studying at RADA in London. Great to become familiar with his lesser known plays!