A Portable ESV Study Bible

The ESV Study Bible has been out for awhile now and the reviews are generally favorable, at least from its target market -- Evangelicals. Here's a useful roundup of reviews. Sales have been healthy, and the ESV Study Bible is already headed for its third printing.

Be that as it may, the one complaint that most have at least mentioned in passing is that it's simply too heavy to lug around, although the child to the left apparently doesn't seem to think so.

Thankfully, the folks at Crossway have announced plans to release it in electronic form across as many platforms as possible, including Mac, PC, and the various handheld devices available nowadays.

Predictably, Olive Tree software is already working on a beta. I got my hands on one a few days ago and it's already quite functional and promises to be infinitely more handy than the actual book version, at least as far as carrying it around goes.

I'm very glad to have it, and I doubt that I'll actually ever purchase the book version.