Product Description

Bible scholars, pastors, teachers, group leaders, students, and new believers will all harness the power of computer Bible study and achieve instant results with QuickVerse! From Greek/Hebrew word study to simple daily reading plans -- QuickVerse offers rapid indexing by subject, phrase, or character. It's a great way to introduce and expand bible reading and study for you and your family. Access the 10 most popular Bible translations and over 45 references. From The King James Version, American Standard Version, and International Standard Version to AMG's Encyclopedia of Bible Facts and Devotional Classics, QuickVerse provides the most in-depth Bible study resources from a single source. QuickVerse Bible Premier Suite makes Bible study easy and intuitive with hundreds of pre-set Bible study reading plans. Quickly and easily find words, phrases, book, chapter or verse references with a sophisticated search engine or use the built-in thesaurus to locate similar words. QuickVerse makes your Bible study interesting and enjoyable with hundreds of breathtaking photos. You can take virtual tours of the Holy Land with colorful maps or practice how to say certain words with thousands of audio pronunciations. With QuickVerse, Bible study is faster, easier and more fun. Get instant access to complete Bible translations on your iPod, Pocket PC, Palm or other MP3 player. QuickVerse includes audio versions of The King James Version, The New Living Translation, American Standard Version and The World English Bible. From Bible study reading plans, devotionals, and more, Quickverse gives you easy-to-use Bible resources wherever you go! Link all your favorite pages in the QuickVerse library for instant recall, set up RSS feeds to receive your favorite articles, or even look up definitions in Wikipedia®, Britannica®, Encarta®, and Oxford online dictionaries directly from QuickVerse.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1656 in Software
• Brand: Avanquest
• Model: 6081
• Released on: 2007-09-04
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: .45 pounds

Features

• #1 Best-selling Bible study software
• Easy-to-use 125+ pre-set daily reading plans, QuickSearch to find verse, words, or date instantly, Thesaurus support
• Extensive reference resources 10 most popular Bible translations, 45 references, and more from one single source
• Interactive 2000+ stunning photos, 6500 audio pronunciations, 50 Holy Land colorful maps and more
• Mobile Complete Bible translations and references for your iPod®, PocketPC, Palm® and other MP3 players

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Looking for Bible Study that is comprehensive, interactive and available to you at all times? Turn to QuickVerse Bible Premier Suite. From pre-set Bible study reading plans, sermon preparation and lesson plan creation, to thousands of stunning photos and maps, and audio pronuniciations, QuickVerse makes it easy to learn and understand the Bible and its teachings in an interesting and enjoyable way.

Bring Bible study to life.

Easy-to-use interface of QuickVerse Bible Premier Suite

Integrated online resources from QuickVerse.

Study on-the-go with your iPod, PalmPilot or PDA.

Easy-To-Use Bible Study Software

• #1 Best selling Bible study software
  
  
• Easy-to-use 125+ pre-set daily reading plans, QuickSearch to find verse, words, or date instantly, Thesaurus support
  
  
• Extensive reference resources 10 most popular Bible translations, 45 references, and more from one single source
  
  
• Interactive 2000+ stunning photos, 6500 audio pronunciations, 50 Holy Land colorful maps and more
  
  
• Mobile Complete Bible translations and references for your iPod, PocketPC, Palm and other MP3 players
  
  
• Personalized book creation Organize by Bible book, chapter, verse, word or date
  
  
• Compatible Windows, VistaTM, Mac. iPod, Palm, and Pocket PC
  
  
• Perfect for all believers Bible students, family, teachers, pastors, group leaders, Bible scholars, and new believers
  
  

Complete
Access the 10 most popular Bible translations and over 45 references. From The King James Version, American Standard Version, and International Standard Version to AMG's Encyclopedia of Bible Facts and Devotional Classics, QuickVerse provides the most in-depth Bible study resources from a single source.

Easy-To-Use
QuickVerse Bible Premier Suite makes Bible study easy and intuitive with hundreds of pre-set Bible study reading plans. Quickly and easily find words, phrases, book, chapter or verse references with a sophisticated search engine or use the built-in thesaurus to locate similar words.

Interactive
QuickVerse makes your Bible study interesting and enjoyable with hundreds of breathtaking photos. You can take virtual tours of the Holy Land with colorful maps or practice how to say certain words with thousands of audio pronunciations. With QuickVerse, Bible study is faster, easier and more fun.

On The Go
Get instant access to complete Bible translations on your iPod, Pocket PC, Palm or other MP3 player. QuickVerse includes audio versions of The King James Version, The New Living Translation, American Standard Version and The World English Bible. From Bible study reading plans, devotionals, and more, Quickverse gives you easy-to-use Bible resources wherever you go!

Integrated Online Resources
Link all your favorite pages in the QuickVerse library for instant recall, set up RSS feeds to receive your favorite articles, or even look up definitions in Wikipedia, Britannica, Encarta, and Oxford online dictionaries directly from QuickVerse.

Perfect for All Believers
Whether youÕre a Bible student, family, teacher, pastor, group leader, Bible scholar or new believer, QuickVerse Bible study has the resources to meet your needs. From Bible study reading plans to get you started to lesson plans and sermon preparation, QuickVerse makes Bible study for all easy, fun, and portable.

Customer Reviews

Great starter package
This is the first electronic bible that I purchased and it is a great starter package. It is very easy to use and works well with Windows XP Pro. The PROS: Makes it easy to view several translations simultaneously. Has a reading plan that breaks the bible up into daily chunks based on your goals and time frame. (e.g., read the entire new test in six months).
The CONS: Doesn't include NRSV. However you can purchase this off of the Quickverse web site (I think $10.)

I may end up upgrading to a larger version with more translations and commentaries, but that may be because I'm more of a geek and am curious than actual need :-)

doesn't seem to work on iMacG5--works ok on other Macs-UPDATED MAY15. '08
I use several Macintosh machines.

Quickverse seems to run on new machines (Intel based), but not on older Power_PC based machines. I have contacted the company which makes this product to see if I can get it to run on my old machine (which is where I would really like to use it.)

The documentation provided with the software gives a web address (URL) for tech support, but I didn't find any. I also couldn't find any FAQs for QuickVerse when I did a web search.

Of course if you would like live telephone support, it is ONLY (gack) $24.95 for the first ten minutes!

UPDATE MAY15, 08
NO RESPONSE TO MY CALLS...

Vista Issues - additional Costs
FYI - this is officially known by the Manufacturers Website (for tech issues) as QuickVerse 2007.

Vista users can avoid a headache - The most likely problem preventing installation is: "User Account Control."
To get to it, go to Control Panel -> User Accounts & Family Safety -> User Accounts -> Turn User Account On Off -> Turn it off. It will require your computer to restart. Make sure you turn it back on later, because it is a critical safety component in your computer.


The Bibles in this package are: New King James, King James, The Message, God's Word Version, International Standard Version, Darby's, Youngs, The New Testament in Modern Speech, and American Standard (1901). In fact, most of the specific resources (except for NKJ and The Message) that are included are those that are out of copyright. [Anyone for reading The Pilgrim's Progress or the Westminster Confession of Faith?]

If you want newer versions of Scriptures or resources to incorporate, there are additional costs - some rather high. Two of the most commonly used Scriptures (NIV and NRSV) are not included, but were available to download from QuickVerse and incorporated easily (I paid for and downloaded both), but the total cost of these more than doubled my original investment in this software.

I have been using this product now for a week, and I am impressed by how powerful the actual software is. One of the neatest features I have discovered is how easy it is to place your choice of scriptures side-by-side. While that may not impress you, a quick Copy and paste of those columns into your word program puts them into a table and keeps the format!

The most fun aspect of the program is the "pronounce" feature, where you get to point at fun names and it will pronounce them for you. :-)

The software also comes with midi files reading the entire scripture in two versions. While it would be helpful to someone with vision problems, the reading sounds like it was done by a computer voice, and it expresses no emotion (zzzzzzz put you to sleep). So don't count on getting too excited about it.

I limited my review to three stars because while I feel the software is very powerful, I felt that the included texts were not particularly helpful.