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• Iphone » Blog Archive » Natively Add the LDS Scriptures to Your iPhone or iPod Touch Said on January 15th, 2008 at 4:04 pm:
  

  [...] Devin Collier.com wrote an interesting post today on Natively Add the LDS Scriptures to Your iPhone or iPod TouchHere’s a quick excerpt1. Jailbreak your iPhone or iPod touch so you have access to the “Installer” application….I’ve created a repository to allow any user to quickly add the standard works to their iPhone or iPod touch quickly and easily without the need to have Edge o r Wifi access…. [...]

• Austin Hill Said on January 26th, 2008 at 2:27 pm:
  

  Thanks for the LDS Source– Its nice to have an offline version. Any chance in the future of adding Sunday School manuals too?

• Kevin Carter Said on January 27th, 2008 at 1:22 pm:
  

  Having recently entered the Apple world with the purchase of an iPod Touch (upgraded to v1.1.3), I am so ‘rookie’ that I am unsure how, or even if I dare, attempting the modification so that I can load LDS scriptures on the device (I don’t seem to have an application called ‘Books’. Can you provide instructions for the faint of heart?

• devin Said on January 27th, 2008 at 4:34 pm:
  

  I thought about putting the lesson manuals and hymns on the repository as well. There hasn’t really been a demand for those things as of yet, and like most people, I’m waiting to see what kind of native applications will come out in the next few months. If many people are interested, I’ll see what I can do.

• devin Said on January 27th, 2008 at 4:36 pm:
  

  To install the “books” application on your iPhone, it needs to be what’s called “jailbroken”. Since the 1.1.3 firmware is so new, you’ll need to first downgrade to 1.1.1, jailbreak the phone, and then upgrade to 1.1.3 with a patch that was released. Here are some helpful websites.
  modmyifone.com (has tutorials to jailbreak from 1.1.3)
  ijailbreak.com (has a patch to jailbreak as well)

• Erik Said on February 12th, 2008 at 12:02 am:
  

  Thanks a bunch!

  When I first ran through the Installer I saw both the Bible and BoM available and installed them. I added your source and installed your versions and they are better organized.

  I am working together rudimentary version of the hymns.

  I can send you the ZIP if you want to make it available on your repository.

• Michael Williams Said on February 27th, 2008 at 11:08 am:
  

  If you are trying to figure out how to Jailbreak because this is a new idea to you. Look for the app Ziphone for either Mac or Win, both are available. Once you have your phone upgraded to 1.1.3 or even 1.1.4 you simply click the Jailbreak button on the App and your phone will have a new add called installer that you will use to install 3rd party applications. I have provided a link t Ziphone below.

  MAC http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2141
  WIN http://www.modmyifone.com/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=2131

• Ryan Quick Said on February 29th, 2008 at 3:43 pm:
  

  A great deal of the other materials folks are asking about, including manuals, lessons, Teachings of the Presidents of the Churchs, hymns, etc. are available in the Plucker format at the LDS website (handheld/PDA/plucker). The Books.app program supports the format pretty well. I just installed Teachings Of The Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith and it reads fine on my 1.1.3 iPhone.

• David Stockton Said on March 7th, 2008 at 12:29 am:
  

  I’ve been wanting The Teachings of Joseph Smith manual on my ipod touch ever since i jailbroke it (the day i got it). I already have the standard works on my touch but i’m more than likely gonna replace ‘em with yours. Thanks for the repom it helps alot. can’t wait!

  And thanks Ryan, I was just on lds.org trying to figure out which one would work with the books app and was getting no where so, thanks! Now i’m done!!

• Tristan Said on March 16th, 2008 at 12:15 am:
  

  this is completely and totally awesome. I was doing one last google search before i started to make my own EBook of D&C and found this. Saved me a whole bunch of time.

• RyanO Said on March 16th, 2008 at 10:21 am:
  

  How do you get the materials from the lds website and plucker on your ipod touch? Could you please explain?

  Thanks.

• is the pearl of great price available? Said on March 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm:
  

  looking for the pearl of great price and topical guide ? Great resource!

• devin Said on March 24th, 2008 at 7:16 am:
  

  I’m actually waiting to see what the iPhone SDK provides before I sink a little more time in translating other books.

• ashidar Said on March 28th, 2008 at 3:09 pm:
  

  I have created an offline version of http://www.scripturesapp.com, which includes the standard works, hymns, and the manual for this year. To view it offline (with wifi turned off) you must follow this tutorial so you can view files locally:

  http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3359

  Next, download this rar file

  http://brandonbundy.com/scriptures/

  Extract the “scriptures” folder to the “sites” folder on your ipod/iphone and then navigate to 127.0.0.1 in safari, click on ’scriptures’ then on ‘wsdindex.html’ and there you go.

  (You can add it as a webclip for easier access

• thepalsrus Said on April 1st, 2008 at 11:28 am:
  

  THANKS Ashidar!! You are the best!

• Nathan Said on April 13th, 2008 at 11:50 am:
  

  I’d love to have the Presidents of the Church manual at my fingertips as well. There is a demand! Then I’d only have to carry the iphone to church (with the book and cheerios bag)

• ashidar Said on April 14th, 2008 at 10:09 am:
  

  The Presidents of the Church Manuals can be found at the LDS webpage

  http://lds.org/gospellibrary/pdfindex/0,7777,579-1,00.html

  You can also view the PDF’s locally on your iphone/ipod just add them to the sites folder

  As for the cheerios, maybe they will invent something soon for you to put on your iphone/touch

• Jeff Said on May 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pm:
  

  I installed the application through lds books but i don’t see the icon on the homepage? Any ideas where it may be?

  Thanks

• Jeremy Said on May 5th, 2008 at 2:53 pm:
  

  For some reason, none of the books are showing up in my eBooks category. I also use WinSCP to modify things on my ipod. Does anyone know the directory that Devin’s eScriptures download to?

• devin Said on May 5th, 2008 at 4:08 pm:
  

  They are stored in the “/var/root/Media” directory. Does anyone know if this changed with the new version of “Books”?

• luke Said on May 12th, 2008 at 12:50 am:
  

  yes devin i think it has changed… books is broken for me now.

  the localhost lightttp server seems to be a better alternative.

• Sueta Said on May 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am:
  

  You may also consider this resource for having scriptures natively: http://hiarmen.googlepages.com/

• MacD Said on May 21st, 2008 at 7:11 pm:
  

  I only found the BOM, OT, NT, and D&C, is the Pearl coming? or am I experiencing an error?

• MacD Said on May 27th, 2008 at 4:40 pm:
  

  To your response on may 5th i just loaded a text reader and the link has not changed i can get the the D&C but I did not see the the Perl of great Price was available for download. Please respond.

• Austin Said on May 27th, 2008 at 5:25 pm:
  

  When is apple going to ‘officially’ allow downloads, etc. to the Touch?

• devin Said on May 27th, 2008 at 5:29 pm:
  

  June 6th is the magical date. If there is not an LDS program that has all the standard works and a bunch more, I’ll write one. I know that readscriptures.com will be coming out with a version. Can’t wait? Check out http://hiarmen.googlepages.com/, he did the same thing I did, but has a working books program.

• Ryan O Said on July 27th, 2008 at 11:30 am:
  

  Hey Devin. Are you going to make a fee downloadable scripture app for apples app store? It appears the readscriptures.com person will be charging $15 for the download. Kind of stinks if you are used to having it for free. Also, how about a version of scriptures for the new cydia app when you pawn 2.0? There is already a book reader that works with .HTML books.

  Thanks

• Nathan Said on August 4th, 2008 at 12:24 am:
  

  Hey Devin. Appreciated your repository for installer. I’m now 2.0 and haven’t seen anything up in Cydia. However using SSH one can simply place the eBook files in /var/media/eBooks/ provided one has the files!

  Any chance of you providing a link or download of the eBook files themselves? I’ll do the rest. Of course a Cydia install would be nice too!

  In regards to the recently released scriptures app I was hoping for a far better version for a native app not just a rehash of the webapp. Hopefully this will improvec. Or the other scripture app being developed may do this as well.

• Howard, Devon Engalnd Said on August 4th, 2008 at 9:50 am:
  

  Yes, I’ve downloaded “scriptures” from the apps store — great….

  I’ve also downloaded some items from the LDS ‘handheld’ archives. I saved the ‘eReader’ pdb files and uploaded them to my free eReader account. I then downloaded those files to my iPod touch. They are now on my ‘bookshelf’. available offline..

• Sam Said on August 10th, 2008 at 8:25 pm:
  

  I appreciate what you are doing in providing the scriptures for people to download and I’m sure you have put a lot of work into it. However, if I were you, I don’t know how comfortable I would be making money by selling the words of the Lord or the doctrine of the church. In my mind it comes dangerously close to the priestcraft line. Though I am a capitalist through and through, the church isn’t about making money. It’s about service.

• devin Said on August 11th, 2008 at 5:27 am:
  

  You make a good point. I agree that the church is about service. I would never want to make money off the scriptures. It’s not my work. This is why I’ve decided not to provide the scriptures at all because it’s better for me to just work at my regular job then to charge people for my time in putting an application together and having people assume I’m making money by selling the scriptures. I should probably phrase the question a little different. It should say, “How much would you be willing to pay for someone for their time to provide the programming, testing, and development of an application that would include information like the scriptures?”

  I suppose the same point goes for those people that put together a Book of Mormon that includes commentary and additional pictures and then sell that at a local bookstore. Are they practicing priestcraft by making a profit on their work?

  The current LDS app is getting a lot of heat for not being free. There’s another one coming out which I’m a beta test for. I know the developers have put in hundreds of hours in development in it, but no one sees that, they only care about the price and if the developers are make a “profit” and not providing service.

• phil scoville Said on August 15th, 2008 at 1:04 am:
  

  I too am part of the beta testers for the new scriptures app and it does take a lot of time to put together. I couldn’t do the work either.

• Alexander Jenkins Said on August 16th, 2008 at 7:37 am:
  

  With the iPhone platform readily becoming a standard, does the church have any plan to provide the app in a church approved format like they have for Pocket PC and Palm? This would solve the entire “we can’t afford to do this for free” issue and would let us have the Church’s stamp of approval on the materials. eReader app would be just fine if the scriptures were available for download in that format from the church site. (in the meantime, thanks for your time you have spent on this whole thing)

• Scott Taylor Said on October 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 am:
  

  Some of these people need to get off their high horses. An application to view the scriptures and other references is not a necessity, it is a luxury. If they don’t want it, use the standard set. I am about to purchase it because I WANT it. I don’t NEED it. I have no problem whatsoever paying somebody a fair price for work they performed. If someone puts long hours into developing an application I want and they are going to spend time making it better, maintaining it, etc, I have no problem paying them a fair price for it.

• Eric Said on October 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pm:
  

  I have been putting off the purchase of an iphone until microsoft word and excel can be edited and until something equal to the old lds reader for palm is available. Both seem to be here or close. For a scripture reader equal to the old lds reader, $100 would be a bargin. I think a profit is very appropriate for developer’s time and effort.

• Ryan Said on December 28th, 2008 at 7:11 pm:
  

  After trying this out for a while, I was successful in getting the Joseph Smith Manual and Gospel Principles on my iPod Touch. I followed the instructions I found at the link below. I used both the Stanza app and the eReader app from the App Store. I found that it took considerably longer to download from the stanza.fictionwise.com website than the fictionwise.com site. (the instructions for both are on the link below.)

  http://www.lexcycle.com/faq/getting_ereader_titles_on_the_iphone

  As for the files for the manuals, I downloaded them from lds.org and downloaded the eReader format. Make sure to save and unzip the files so they are the .pdb format before uploading them.

  http://lds.org/handheld/0,18493,5299-1,00.html

  After trying each of the apps, I kind of like the eReader version best for viewing the manuals because you can, highlight, bookmark, and add notes.

• bryan Said on February 4th, 2009 at 6:02 pm:
  

  is there a site that i can download the LDS scriptures just to my desktop (mac). Not to my handheld, just my computer so if my internet is down i can still access the scriptures? I know i can go and copy each chapter from lds.org into a .doc but there has got to be a better way. if we can get them on our iphone can’t we get them on our desktop?

  thanks for any help.

• M Said on July 1st, 2009 at 3:52 pm:
  

  In my opinion, YanCEyWare has been the best, feature-filled scriptures application on a Windows Mobile device. Having switched to an iPhone, readscriptures.com appears to have some close functionality. I only wish I could move all my content from YanCEyWare (not just some books) like notes, QuickMarks, markings over to the iPhone. Yours is quite handy for being free, but I would miss the feature set of YanCEyWare.

  Any updates on these ideas?

• paul johnston Said on September 7th, 2009 at 12:35 am:
  

  I just got a Sony 600 ereader. Can you direct me to how and where i can get LDS scriptures to download? In advance, thanx.