“The typeface is hard to read […]”
Given the potential buyers this product is aimed at, a factor that can be easily ignored entirely.
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I could see them deliberately blurring several passages, especially “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt”
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Oooh I hadn’t thought they might drop some pro Trump changes into the text that will be used by the faithful to prove his divine nature.
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Interperating centuries of western literature is the main one I can think of. As for the value, there are plenty of free Bible epubs on the internet.
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I think Trump may have used all the KJV misprints
Thou shalt commit adultery.
Printers have persecuted me without a cause
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall inherit the kingdom of God?
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Right. This was an old grift by Greenwood. He was stuck with cases of these things and Trump got wind of it. The MSM dropping the ball once again by not mentioning this.
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I use a bible paper as a measurement tool and protective layer because it’s so thin when I’m setting router spindle height. It can be a protective layer for the finish without adding much thickness.
The only paper that works better is the Jehovah Witness pamphlets they leave in the door. Those are either a touch thinner or glossier because they are full color.
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“[The bible] feels pretty fake and cheap to me…”
Trump knows his brand.
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It is translated literature, and as with all translated works, the more perceptive and more accurate translations are not necessarily free. (see Compare Bible translations: What’s the Difference Between the NIV, NRSV, and Other Bible Translations?) The project apparently was going to use the New International Version, which I think is popular with evangelicals. When Zondervan pulled out, the rights to use the NIV were withdrawn.
Trump’s bible uses the King James Bible (long out of copyright). Which I suppose has its devotees, who like the “poetry” of the language. But surely someone who claims to like poetry would typeset the actual poems properly, not jumbled up like prose.
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Not to mention the paper ones in hotel rooms.
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I really should thank the Gideons Bible people for supplying free rolling papers in every hotel.
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I think the KJV is a scourge on English literature.
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The constitution….AND the bill of rights?
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News to me that you could copyright the bible. I thought it was basically the definition of public domain.
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In the UK, the authorized version is still copyright.
https://www.cambridge.org/bibles/about/rights-and-permissions/rights-and-permissions-kjv
A distinction it shares with Peter Pan.
Jesus makes a second coming and gives a sermon, immediately hit by copyright claim in UK court
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Some sects wield copyright against those who would enter into schism,
The Worldwide Church of God owned the copyright to “Mystery of the Ages,” a religious text written by its founder, Herbert Armstrong, in 1985. Church leaders retired the book from publication in 1987 after Armstrong died because, they claimed, the book contained racist views. In 1989, two ousted Worldwide Church ministers formed their own church, the Philadelphia Church of God, which strictly adhered to Armstrong’s teachings. The Philadelphia Church copied “Mystery” verbatim and distributed more than 30,000 copies of the book. The Philadelphia Church argued the fair use defense protected its publication and use of the book because it used the text for religious purposes and did not charge for copies. The federal appeals court examined the four fair use factors outlined in the federal Copyright Act and held the balance tipped in favor of the plaintiff, Worldwide Church.
“contained racist views” is an understatement.
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I was curious…
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Yeah, that’s okay, as long as the guy doesn’t start talking nasty about my Stock Car Racing Bible and NASCAR New Testament & Psalms.
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My mentor at Rocketdyne sometimes used card stock to roughly gauge gap thicknesses when in the field and w/o a proper measurement tool. “Seventy-thou”, he’d say.
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