Top critical review
1.0 out of 5 starsDecent content and presentation. Unfortunately, not without major problems...
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2020
I was specifically shopping for an NLT version of the Bible to read on my Kindle Paperwhite, not necessarily with commentary or study guides, though that's always appreciated. I previewed several before optioning to purchase THIS one. My main criteria?
A lot of eBook/Kindle Bibles seem to like to FORCE us to use JUSTIFIED text. In other words, the option to use ragged-right margins is UNAVAILABLE (greyed-out). To me, that is a deal-breaker. Justified text, to me, is just ugly and hard to look at, and I don't want to have to deal with it in a book I'll be diving into regularly for long periods of time.
UPDATE: As of June 2021, the above two paragraphs are WRONG. A couple of days ago, my Kindle would crash EVERY time I tried to open this eBook, along with a message recommending that I delete and re-download it.
Okay then... now it opens, doesn't crash as often, BUT all the text is force-justified exactly like what I *hate* in other (but not all) Bibles on Kindle.
Not only that, but some of the opening commentary before each Book of Scripture is now so butt-ugly that I find myself wondering, did anybody TEST this thing before pushing an update in the Amazon store? Because if they did, then it must be a marketing ploy to get people to not read Bibles on Kindle anymore. Yes it's THAT bad. See the screenshot.
Seriously, I'm abandoning Kindle as an effective Bible reading platform in favor of Bible-reading APPS for my Android tablet and phone. I'm going to miss that PaperWhite screen when reading outside though.
Again, as a review to potential buyers, and as a person who's favorite paraphrased translation IS the NLT, my recommendation is to avoid THIS like the plague.
