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Thanks, I have put a non-trivial amount of thought into making the interface friendly. I appreciate the compliment :) I've got a staging environment at dev.par

Thanks, I have put a non-trivial amount of thought into making the interface friendly. I appreciate the compliment :) I've got a staging environment at dev.parabible.com with other versions (it's a bit rougher and can break, but it supports searching in Greek along with a bunch of other translations). I've also added Apostolic Fathers there (which, I believe, is the first place that Ap. Fathers have been available in English and original language in parallel for free anywhere). I'd love to get versions like the ESV, NIV, NASB... but they're all copyrighted and when I've spoken to publishers about licensing they want me to pay (and I'm a grad student with no income). There are some other free translations I could add (like the KJV, etc.), but I'm aiming at a scholarly audience, who I think don't care about most of the translations that you'll find for free (the KJV is one exception there, tbh).

Minor49er 4y ago
This is really cool. It's quite sad that the other versions are under copyright. The KJV is probably the one that people would look for the most as a baseline, I think. My holy grail (no pun intended) is the pre-Challoner version of the Douay-Rheims Bible. There is a PDF scan of it up on archive.org, and a seller produced books of the text but with their own Old-English-to-English translation, but I haven't found any text-only versions of the original online
nickpsecurity 4y ago
That's a nice, beautifully-rendered project. I winced when you mentioned copyright. On my sites (eg GiveThemLife.com), I try to avoid copywritten material in on-site content. I can't tell people it's free for any use if my dependencies might not be. That God gave us His Word as a free gift, but His children restrict it, just bothers me. I'm so grateful for MPJ and others who made the World English Bible. It's good enough most of the time. If not, I sometimes customize the passage by mixing it with synonyms from other, public-domain translations. Even the dynamic translations, like Weymouth, are good for mining words. Many are on studybible.info, e-SWORD modules, and even on eBay in book form. Far as your tool, I don't see how you could merge copywritten content into the main interface. However, you might add a button or menu action for each verse that generates a pop-up to an external page with many translations. BibleHub is good for that. One side effect is that your site causes people to bump into other content that may help them. Re licensing. I am curious how much they wanted to charge you. Especially for ESV. For one translation, WEB's author was quoted $10,000 plus $10 a copy for use in free software.
- Minor49er 4y ago
  On the upside, many of the newer translations are corrupted, so the copyright may work to filter those out more easily

Minor49er 4y ago

This is really cool. It's quite sad that the other versions are under copyright. The KJV is probably the one that people would look for the most as a baseline, I think. My holy grail (no pun intended) is the pre-Challoner version of the Douay-Rheims Bible. There is a PDF scan of it up on archive.org, and a seller produced books of the text but with their own Old-English-to-English translation, but I haven't found any text-only versions of the original online

nickpsecurity 4y ago

That's a nice, beautifully-rendered project. I winced when you mentioned copyright. On my sites (eg GiveThemLife.com), I try to avoid copywritten material in on-site content. I can't tell people it's free for any use if my dependencies might not be. That God gave us His Word as a free gift, but His children restrict it, just bothers me. I'm so grateful for MPJ and others who made the World English Bible. It's good enough most of the time. If not, I sometimes customize the passage by mixing it with synonyms from other, public-domain translations. Even the dynamic translations, like Weymouth, are good for mining words. Many are on studybible.info, e-SWORD modules, and even on eBay in book form. Far as your tool, I don't see how you could merge copywritten content into the main interface. However, you might add a button or menu action for each verse that generates a pop-up to an external page with many translations. BibleHub is good for that. One side effect is that your site causes people to bump into other content that may help them. Re licensing. I am curious how much they wanted to charge you. Especially for ESV. For one translation, WEB's author was quoted $10,000 plus $10 a copy for use in free software.

Minor49er 4y ago
On the upside, many of the newer translations are corrupted, so the copyright may work to filter those out more easily