Comments on: Natively Add the LDS Scriptures to Your iPhone or iPod Touch

By: Russ Shurak

Russ Shurak — Fri, 07 May 2010 21:02:39 +0000

I have to admit that your entire blog page is fairly topical. I have been expending quite a lot of energy for the last last couple weeks scouting around at what precisely is around influenced by the very fact that I will be arranging to launch a blog site. The details you have put on here is pretty much to the point. It just seems so confusing in relation to all the web sites that are on the market, but I just like the way your is visually. Gotta really enjoy where technological innovation has come through the previous 8 yrs.

By: paul johnston

paul johnston — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 07:35:58 +0000

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.

By: M

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:52:31 +0000

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?

By: bryan

bryan — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:02:09 +0000

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.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 02:11:29 +0000

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.

By: Eric

Eric — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 21:55:47 +0000

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.

By: Scott Taylor

Scott Taylor — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:30:53 +0000

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.

By: Alexander Jenkins

Alexander Jenkins — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:37:11 +0000

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)

By: phil scoville

phil scoville — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:04:12 +0000

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.

By: devin

devin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:27:12 +0000

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.