Pocket Bible

A simple offline Bible reader. There are 7 versions included, and you can add more.

Getting Started

To get started using Pocket Bible, go to /content/index.html in your browser. The following versions ship with Pocket Bible.

• American Standard Version (ASV)
• Arabic Smith & Van Dyke (SVD)
• French Ostvervald (FO)
• German Schlachter (GS)
• King James Version (KJV)
• New Chinese Version Simplified (NCVS)
• World English Bible (WEB)

Feel free to download this and use it however you like. For example, you could put it on a flash drive and take it with you to use on any computer.

Features

• Responsive Design
• Version and Book Drop-down Menus
• Hash-based Routing
• Infinite Scrolling

Generate More Bible Versions

Using the included command line tools, you can generate more Bible versions.

Supported Formats

✓ OSIS
✓ Unbound

Step I: Setup

1. Install Node.js (http://nodejs.org/download/) for your platform.
2. Navigate to the /core/tools/scribe folder.
3. Run npm install to install dependencies.
4. For each Bible that you want to convert, create a file named info.json. Use this template as a guide.

{
  "type": "Bible",
  "file": "asv",
  "name": "American Standard Version",
  "abbreviation": "ASV",
  "language": "English",
  "format": "unbound"
}

Step II: Generate HTML from OSIS and/or Unbound Bibles

1. Add OSIS and/or Unbound Bibles to the /core/tools/scribe/literature folder.
2. Run node /core/tools/scribe/translate.js to convert all Bibles in the /core/tools/scribe/literature folder to JSON.
3. Run node /core/tools/scribe/write.js to convert all JSON Bibles in the /core/api/literature folder to HTML.

Versioning

Release format: <major>.<minor>.<patch>

Author

Barry Anders