eBible on UserVoice

Add a highlight and a note in one step

2012-05-13T16:31:08-07:00

an anonymous user suggested:
Hi, I've been using the highlight feature and the note feature often and I find, perhaps I'm doing it wrong, that I must mouse over the selection two times. The first time, I understand, as this is to create the highlighted section; however, I am then required to select the text yet again to cause the prompt for adding a note to appear. Is there any way I could select the text the first time and apply the highlight, and then apply a note directly to this new highlight immediately? Basically, if the prompt to add a note appeared immediately after creating a highlight, the second step would be eliminated. Please let me know whether you already have a solution for this issue that I simply have not discovered. Thank you so much. I am enjoying eBible very much!

No version listed is complete

2012-05-09T19:52:44-07:00

Shaun suggested:
Missing are 7 of the 46 books of a complete Old Testament. More than half of all Christians read the full version of the bible. Thats 1.2 billion of 2.2 billion world wide. The missing book and verses are: Tobit, Judith, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Wisdom of Solomon, Ecclesiasticus (or Sirach), and Baruch. Catholic Bibles also include an additional six chapters (107 verses) in Esther and three chapters (174 verses) in Daniel. Thanks for doing this.

More commentaries, audio and reading plans. [updated]

2012-05-04T07:11:23-07:00

New application is clean! but it is too empty too. As a lifetime member, I was depending on ebible for my studies. It was full of features - Several commentary, Audio and various versions. Why we lost all features as part of re-design? Please bring all back plus a daily reading plan too...

Anonymous said:

would love the audio, so much easier for me to focus , than trying to read.

To say thanks..

2012-05-03T14:55:57-07:00

Anonymous suggested:
Just to congratulate and encourage all those working unbelievably hard in the eBible family - this is an amazing innovation that is helping plenty of Christians world wide. I know it is definitely helping me. I love the way it is so accessible; and its efficiency (the highlighting and adding notes etc) It's fantastic! I absolutely love it, and I am thankful God led me here - it's made Bible study funner that it already was, as well as more encouraging and easier to follow! Please may you continue serving with the right hearts and minds,a nd in unity, as this is ministration on another level - Hebrews 6:10: " For God is not unjust. He will not forget how hard you have worked for him and how you have shown your love to him by caring for other believers, as you still do. " Stay blessed, and continue serving lovingly!!!!! Anesu :)))))

Minor Errors Form or Bug Report Form

2012-04-22T04:57:38-07:00

Deb Buck suggested:
As I go through the reading plans, I occasionally find minor errors (thus far only pop-up references ill-formatted or missing scriptures or the like). It seems overkill to send a tech support email every time. I'm thinking a quick form requesting the required information could send over to someone's queue, and boom. Done. I don't really need emails and conversation with each one. I trust y'all are doing everything you can to make this site fantastic - it already is! I just want to help in this small way.

fix end-of line problem

2012-04-21T06:07:33-07:00

Mtnester suggested:
in Proverbs, Message version an end-of-line occurs mid verse (leaving blank for rest of line) then restarts next line followed mid-line by next verse start. So context changes with verse mid-line. This makes flow of reading difficult.

Just thanks.. ideas and requests to follow later

2012-04-17T22:17:52-07:00

Richard Snider suggested:
Thank you for eBible. I needed it most about 3 years ago when I began teaching at Seminary and found exactly what you did: Painfully ugly Bible sites polluted with advertising and UI problems that rendered them largely unusable. Now eBible is my home page on Safari and the only site I use that browser for (on a Mac, I'm a Firefox user). I wish very much to discuss the direction of eBible's continued development with one or more of you, even if just for a few minutes. I have been part of technology start-ups myself and I understand that schedules can be very tight. Thank you again. -Rich

Leaving the reference in the search bar in order to be able to be able to edit it without having to copy and paste it again. [is now under review]

2012-04-11T09:40:47-07:00

Leaving the reference in the search bar in order to be able to be able to edit it without having to copy and paste it again.

2012-04-11T07:18:37-07:00

Edit a bookmark [updated]

2012-04-09T17:11:24-07:00

the option edit a bookmark like you're moving through a physical book

Colin Wong said:

Hi Richard.

Can you explain in greater detail on this request? Thanks.

Edit a bookmark [is now under review]

2012-04-09T17:11:00-07:00

the option edit a bookmark like you're moving through a physical book

Sidebar notes [is now under review]

2012-04-09T17:10:46-07:00

I'd like to be able to see the passage I'm reading while making a note. Could the notes window be movable, or on the side?

Note View [is now under review]

2012-04-09T17:10:23-07:00

I would like to be able to see past notes that I've written alongside the text if I'm going back and reading it a second time. Currently there are just the little icons, and I think it would be nice if the whole note was visible alongside the text (maybe not always, if people find it distracting, but as an option to have the notes visible or not). That would make it more like the notes written alongside the text in a paper Bible. Anyway, I really do enjoy using eBible - I just thought this might be a nice feature to have as well. Thanks!

Next/Prev Navigation [updated]

2012-04-09T17:09:56-07:00

I really like the idea of next/previous buttons going back and forth to chapters but it will be much better if we could do this without reloading page.

Colin Wong said:

Hi Ashis.

Is there an advantage of doing a next/previous page but not reload the page? Let us know what you're thinking.

Next/Prev Navigation [is now under review]

2012-04-09T17:08:14-07:00

I really like the idea of next/previous buttons going back and forth to chapters but it will be much better if we could do this without reloading page.

Embedable "Verse of the Day" [is now under review]

2012-04-09T17:08:00-07:00

I would (really) like to have the ability to embed "Verse of the Day" in my blog or website. That could be such as e.g. a widget or any other form relative to where it will be placed/embedded. Thank you!

Note View

2012-04-09T14:55:09-07:00

kristina b suggested:
I would like to be able to see past notes that I've written alongside the text if I'm going back and reading it a second time. Currently there are just the little icons, and I think it would be nice if the whole note was visible alongside the text (maybe not always, if people find it distracting, but as an option to have the notes visible or not). That would make it more like the notes written alongside the text in a paper Bible. Anyway, I really do enjoy using eBible - I just thought this might be a nice feature to have as well. Thanks!

Sidebar notes

2012-04-03T04:24:29-07:00

Anonymous suggested:
I'd like to be able to see the passage I'm reading while making a note. Could the notes window be movable, or on the side?

Next/Prev Navigation

2012-03-28T20:36:38-07:00

Ashis Rai suggested:
I really like the idea of next/previous buttons going back and forth to chapters but it will be much better if we could do this without reloading page.

Edit a bookmark

2012-03-28T08:01:01-07:00

Richard suggested:
the option edit a bookmark like you're moving through a physical book

Embedable "Verse of the Day"

2012-03-20T15:50:20-07:00

Giorgio Sotiro suggested:
I would (really) like to have the ability to embed "Verse of the Day" in my blog or website. That could be such as e.g. a widget or any other form relative to where it will be placed/embedded. Thank you!

Android App [updated]

2012-03-14T22:10:30-07:00

I'm sure you are already working on this, but I wanted to get the topic out there for people to vote on it. I'm a new user of eBible through On The City, and I would love to read on my Android 2.3 phone.

Colin Wong (admin) responded:

We just pushed 'eBible Voice Edition' to the Google app store. It's not a full-blown Android app. Just an experimental voice navigation system we're testing. Go ahead and give it a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.osprit.ebible

Android App [updated]

2012-03-14T22:09:47-07:00

Colin Wong said:

Kevin, we just pushed 'eBible Voice Edition' to the Google app store. It's not a full-blown Android app. Just an experimental voice navigation system we're testing. Go ahead and give it a try.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.osprit.ebible

Add the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the bible [is now under review]

2012-03-14T11:13:49-07:00

This is the standard English pew bible for many denominations and has served as a benchmark for other translations for many years.

Add the Revised Standard Version (RSV) of the bible

2012-03-13T11:32:39-07:00

Anonymous suggested:
This is the standard English pew bible for many denominations and has served as a benchmark for other translations for many years.

Where is the address of the passage in your website version? [updated]

2012-03-09T11:23:13-08:00

I think your topical series could benefit computer users greatly by including the address of the book in which the passage is located. For example, I subscribed to your "Finding Hope" series. My email shows the address for today, but when I click to the web site version, the address of the book is no where to be found! I have to refer back to my email to see that it is in Psalms.

Aude said:

No prob. Wow, that was fast. Thank you Colin!

Where is the address of the passage in your website version? [is now completed]

2012-03-09T11:04:28-08:00

Where is the address of the passage in your website version? [updated]

2012-03-09T11:04:28-08:00

Colin Wong (admin) responded:

Sorry about that Aude. We used to have that functionality but looks like it accidentally got turned off at some point. Should be working again now.

Have a history section [is now under review]

2012-03-07T08:59:13-08:00

On the dashboard, along with notes and highlights, I think a history section with a recently viewed list would be nice. this allows one to easily get back to what they were viewing last, like if they are just reading thorugh the bible, but without a reading plan, or if they are jumping back and forth between two etxts while studying. This could be recently read items (like if I read Job 3-10, an item in the history list would have job 3,4,5 etc), or recently clicked on items (meaning if I read Job 3-10, only job 3 would show up since that is where I started, or only job 10, since that is where I ended). I don't mind whichever approach, just in general having a section like that would be nice

Be able to catch up reading plan [is now under review]

2012-03-07T08:56:09-08:00

Within reading plans, it would be nice to be able to catch up, for example in the 365 day one, i am already in the middle of my bible and would like to catch up to there. Instead, I have to go to each reading, scroll to the bottom, say "mark read" and then do that again, lots of times over.

Have a history section

2012-03-06T10:07:51-08:00

juliguli suggested:
On the dashboard, along with notes and highlights, I think a history section with a recently viewed list would be nice. this allows one to easily get back to what they were viewing last, like if they are just reading thorugh the bible, but without a reading plan, or if they are jumping back and forth between two etxts while studying. This could be recently read items (like if I read Job 3-10, an item in the history list would have job 3,4,5 etc), or recently clicked on items (meaning if I read Job 3-10, only job 3 would show up since that is where I started, or only job 10, since that is where I ended). I don't mind whichever approach, just in general having a section like that would be nice

Be able to catch up reading plan

2012-03-06T09:28:09-08:00

juliguli suggested:
Within reading plans, it would be nice to be able to catch up, for example in the 365 day one, i am already in the middle of my bible and would like to catch up to there. Instead, I have to go to each reading, scroll to the bottom, say "mark read" and then do that again, lots of times over.

Android App [is now started]

2012-03-04T10:56:35-08:00

Windows Phone App [is now under review]

2012-03-04T10:55:38-08:00

I would liek to see an ebible app for the windows phone.

Windows Phone App

2012-03-03T22:08:35-08:00

juliguli suggested:
I would liek to see an ebible app for the windows phone.

Android App

2012-02-28T11:20:41-08:00

Kevin suggested:
I'm sure you are already working on this, but I wanted to get the topic out there for people to vote on it. I'm a new user of eBible through On The City, and I would love to read on my Android 2.3 phone.

Drop down tab for Plans [is now completed]

2012-02-27T12:28:30-08:00

Please add a drop down tab allowing visitors, access their plans, to subscribe to new plans or unsubscribe to older plans, on the iframe version. When you initially log in you are given access to each plan but after the first screen you have to log out and log back in to view your plans again.

Drop down tab for Plans [updated]

2012-02-27T12:28:29-08:00

Colin Wong (admin) responded:

Hi William, This should be fixed now. You should see the Dashboard tab on the top of the Bible. You will need to clear your browser's cache to see the changes. Thanks for the feedback!

Background color [is now completed]

2012-02-27T12:27:47-08:00

Is there a way to change the background color without compromising the iframe code?

Background color [updated]

2012-02-27T12:27:41-08:00

Is there a way to change the background color without compromising the iframe code?

Colin Wong said:

Hi William, You should be able to change the background color without compromising the iFrame code. You can modify the iFrame's CSS via the Ministry Tools, under Embeddable Bible > Custom CSS.

Background color [is now under review]

2012-02-27T12:13:58-08:00

Is there a way to change the background color without compromising the iframe code?

Drop down tab for Plans [is now planned]

2012-02-27T12:12:56-08:00

Scripture Memory Tools [is now under review]

2012-02-27T12:12:43-08:00

Please provide a tool to aid with Scripture memory. i.e. fill in the blank with increasingly more words missing as the verse is done correctly or less blanks if you make some mistakes.

Scripture Memory Tools

2012-02-27T07:56:14-08:00

Scott suggested:
Please provide a tool to aid with Scripture memory. i.e. fill in the blank with increasingly more words missing as the verse is done correctly or less blanks if you make some mistakes.

Adding a new bible reading plan [is now under review]

2012-02-24T12:20:16-08:00

This is entirely a personal request, but I would love to see eBible begin offering some more reading plans such as Prof Horner's Bible Reading System. I know it's not a traditional plan and might be somewhat tricky to add, but it would be nice. Very few sites except YouVersion offer it at this time. Now that eBible is integrated into The City, I would use it daily if this program was available. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!

Adding a new bible reading plan [updated]

2012-02-24T07:23:48-08:00

Rob said:

I agree. This reading plan is gaining some steam and it would be nice to see other soft bible developers to add reading plans for it.

Adding a new bible reading plan [updated]

2012-02-24T07:07:30-08:00

Nathan Jewett said:

Completely forgot to add a link to the PDF of this reading plan. Thanks again!

http://www.wbfva.org/files/professor_grant_horners_bible_reading_system.pdf

Adding a new bible reading plan

2012-02-24T07:04:36-08:00

Nathan Jewett suggested:
This is entirely a personal request, but I would love to see eBible begin offering some more reading plans such as Prof Horner's Bible Reading System. I know it's not a traditional plan and might be somewhat tricky to add, but it would be nice. Very few sites except YouVersion offer it at this time. Now that eBible is integrated into The City, I would use it daily if this program was available. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Thanks!

J. B. Phillips Translation? [is now under review]

2012-02-20T01:16:00-08:00

Very few Bible software packages have this. Perhaps there is an issue because the translation is only available for portions of Scripture (the New Testament, half of Isaiah, and a few of the other OT prophets, but if so, I would like to know one way or the other. It would be nice to have at least the New Testament at any rate, especially on my mobile device! Thanks!

J. B. Phillips Translation?

2012-02-16T05:03:41-08:00

Ken Claassen suggested:
Very few Bible software packages have this. Perhaps there is an issue because the translation is only available for portions of Scripture (the New Testament, half of Isaiah, and a few of the other OT prophets, but if so, I would like to know one way or the other. It would be nice to have at least the New Testament at any rate, especially on my mobile device! Thanks!