Sunday, December 13, 2009

Can't read the Bible

Yep, I can't read the Bible on my Blackberry. I have an older model Blackberry phone, the 7290, and have had it for awhile but not that long(if that makes sense at all). I keep my phone on me pretty much all of the time and am rarely caught with out it at least near me. It's pretty cool as far as phones go even though it was made about 5 years or so ago because, hey, it's a Blackberry. It has a nice calender with lots of features, a full QWERTY keypad, a very nice alarm setup, a memo pad where I keep thoughts that pop up in my head, games, several applications(or 'apps' as they are most often called) that do just about anything and last but not least, it's a phone. Well I was on a website the other day that I frequent from time to time that's called Gutenberg.org. It's a project that makes electronic versions of books so that they may be downloaded to your computer quickly and painlessly and most importantly, freely. Now to get them free, all the books are under no U.S. copyrights and that tends to affect the age of the books. They tend to be old. That's fine 'cause there are some good ones on there especially the classics. Anyway, I saw on their mainpage a picture of a Blackberry and the caption said that you could now get ebooks on your PDA/phones. Cool! I found an 'app' that worked called Mobipocket eBook Reader; a beta program for Blackberry phones. It worked/works great and I have already read quite a bit of material on my phone at lunch time and break and any other time I am just sitting needing something to do. I decided that I needed to put a copy of the Holy Bible on there so I could read it whenever I got the chance 'cause it's the best reading there is. The only problem is that the only free ebook bible was the King James Version. Um, no thanks. A short seach on Mobipocket's website found me a New International Version for my phone and $14.99 later it was downloaded to my Wife's laptop. Then it happend; it would not transfer to my phone. Several attempts later I went to the Mobipocket support forum where I have yet to recieve any help with the matter. Crackberry.com forums were much more responsive but have yet to yeild a solution that I may use. I recently seen that Mobipocket now has techical help email capabilities so I sent them a shout telling them my perdicament. I hope to hear back soon after the work week starts and I won't have to chalk this up as one of those learning experiances. Like trying to download a large eBook to an older Blackberry PDA/phone that is running an operating system that is not supported by your eBook reader's latest software update. For now I will reside to downloading only free content as to avoid 'costly' mistakes in the future. Right now I'm working on 'The Science of Human Nature/A Pyscology for Beginners' and it has been pretty good so far.

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