Annotating Bibles

[.Iona.]

Do any of you have a Bible that you annotate?

I have one that I write in a lot. I highlight verses, write notes in the margin, cross reference scriptures. I love having a Bible that is annotated. I have markers for certain chapters etc.

I do have another one that I like to keep clean and tidy.

 

[Unix]

Good question! Depending if I'm going to swap books with someone (hopefully he is currently considering my offer), I'm thinking of buying one more laptop. What's good about that the laptop I was considering buying, is that it has a quad-core AMD CPU. But it has a somewhat big monitor so perhaps it would not be ideal for annotating the Bible.
However, I find it easier to annotate digitally since that way I have the versions I use with me, I use different versions for different parts of the Bible, and because it's somewhat easy to make changes. It's also possible to highlight. Perhaps I should consider a laptop that consumes less battery? The CPU in it does however consume a little less battery than my current main laptop which is dual-core AMD. On another forum someone told me that a quad core would consume more.
One Old Testament (New English Translation of the Septuagint), a New Testament and an Apocrypha would not be much more bulky than one laptop.
It's just that I'm not that good at writing by hand. It's a pleasure to use a keyboard.

 

[Unix]

The swap is going to be pretty small and mostly about lexicons, if he even accepts my offer of paying him $77 and me paying both the Logos and the Accordance license transfer fees. Because of that there's less reason now to buy another laptop. Regarding annotating the Bible, my oldest laptop (I have a newer, bigger one also) has a 11.9" monitor - so it's pretty small, but the keyboard malfunctions so I have to use an external keyboard for it. Additionally, there's some problems with that particular laptop so I wouldn't be able to neither easily move the proprietary text or highlightings nor have the Old Testament I use, installed on it:

Good question! Depending if I'm going to swap books with someone (hopefully he is currently considering my offer), I'm thinking of buying one more laptop. What's good about that the laptop I was considering buying, is that it has a quad-core AMD CPU. But it has a somewhat big monitor so perhaps it would not be ideal for annotating the Bible.

 

[Ubuntu]

Yes, the bible that I use on a day to day basis, have pages that are throughly soiled in ink!

I think that making cross references and such makes it easier to find what you're looking for. I think that when you annotate the bible in such a manner, you make the Bible a personal book, something which truly belongs to you!

 

[alasthai]

Do any of you have a Bible that you annotate?

Annotating the Bible is heretical!!1! As all True Believers in the Ancient and Sacred Way of Remembering Really Obscure Verses know, the only Approved Method is the use of post-it flags, especially in fluorescent colours.

I have known a few people who had to buy new Bibles just because they had underlined or highlighted so many passages that they could no longer pick out the ones which they wanted.

 

[ebia]

Annotating the Bible is heretical!!1! .

Not if you use faux Jacobean English.

 

[alasthai]

Not if you use faux Jacobean English.

Forsooth! Methinks thou hast nailed it!

 

[.Iona.]

Annotating the Bible is heretical!!1! As all True Believers in the Ancient and Sacred Way of Remembering Really Obscure Verses know, the only Approved Method is the use of post-it flags, especially in fluorescent colours.

Oh of course, how could I forget the fluorescent post it notes!!i also use those little coloured spot stickers to mark pages.

I have known a few people who had to buy new Bibles just because they had underlined or highlighted so many passages that they could no longer pick out the ones which they wanted.

Yep. When everything is highlighted, nothing is highlighted!