Point #3 is why I love large print personal size Bibles. When I became a Christian as a teenager, I saved up my babysitting money and picked out my own Bible that happened to be a personal size. Now, that's the kind of Bible that just "feels right" to me.
The difference between the 2 are that the Full Grain Leather is made from the top layer of the animal hide, which is really strong and has a rich texture. This gives the leather its nice, refined look. On the other hand, Genuine Leather can be taken from any layer of the hide and is often sanded or buffed to smooth out any natural imperfections.
One of my all time favorite bibles is the NRSV go anywhere compact thinline Bible, it’s a 6pt font but it’s such a clean layout that I can read it fairly comfortably even without my reading glasses and it has the apocrypha. I take it with me everywhere
Thinlines are great! They're so portable and just the right size to fit in your hand and flip through easily. My first bible was a thinline R. L. Allan (Collins Fontana 16 mo. ref.) that my parents gifted me in 1977. It was my daily throughout my teens and I still love the familiar thin profile! It has an 8 pt. font, is 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" and only 7/8" thick, but it still has a 250-page concordance and a set of maps.
Oh, my secondhand ESV faux leather bible is thin lined ! Learn something new everyday 😊 I love the simplicity of the pages, not busy, very relaxing to read.
Love the bloopers! 😂 I too am a fan of thinline Bibles. My favorite is my ESV top grain leather. It's a bit larger since my aging eyes need large print these days. It just feels right in my hands.
I have a number of bibles, but I really like the smaller one since I can grab it and stuff it in my lunch bag( fits perfectly) and take it anywhere. I write notes in it, highlight it, etc. If I need to do some research I go home and do it in my big study Bible.
Familiarity is so true. For ten years I used a zippered NLT pocket Bible, when it was falling apart beyond usability I went searching for a bible. Now I use a zippered NKJV PSQ, something about the zipper that makes my Bible feel like my Bible I guess
I have a thinline, single colour, brown faux leather NET. It's my fave bible these days. I love, love, love the KJV, but the NET thinline is my favourite these days.
I like the size of thinline bibles because it keeps them light and also allows them to have larger print without making the Bible too thick and hefty. I have a large print NLT filament thinline in synthetic leather and it’s great.
For a guy who doesn't typically like Thinline Bibles I've sure had my fair share of 'em in the past. I've had three that I particularly loved: NASB, ESV, and TNIV. I carried that TNIV one with me quite often. The portability of a Thinline that I can keep in my truck is so convenient.
What makes the CSB Thinline so unique as well is it uses a 9 point typeface. If Holman made a premium version of that exact Bible I would give them my money yesterday. Thinlines are my favorite.
The paper in the CSB Thinline wrinkles a lot and doesn'thold up at all with microns. I used 005 microns and colored pencils in mine, and it is ruined. I'd love a CSB Thinline with some premium paper! Or paper that is as good as what Crossway uses. My Crossway Thinline has great paper. 😊
The other publishers like Crossway, Tyndale, and Thomas Nelson make nice Thinlines with good paper. Holman is the exception. That's sad, because I really like the CSB.
LOVE thinlines! I have sooooo many on my shelves. They’re my favorite for teaching. My favorite one is a CSB I bought from Scriptura last year as a gift to myself on my first Mother’s Day.
I have an old New King James thinline alligator skin bible from Nelson with medium print book intros, Concordance and maps, just got done repairing some of the pages. Thinlines are what I carry to church, except for when I'm preaching and studying
I have an ESV I bought in tru-tone then had rebound in calfskin that I use to preach every week. I’ve found it to be the easiest for me personally to hold.
Rob here! Great video and I love the light heartedness! Okay…I get your reasoning…For me, I carry the Schuyler Stridon NASB as my carry everywhere…it is just not that big and ohhhh the quality…I don’t own a thin line specifically, but the Stridon is close enough for me with enough bells and whistles to help me when I need it on the road.🤷♂️🤷♂️
Thanks for including all of the bloopers - you made me smile. I have 3 of those NIV thinline leather Bibles like yours - brown/tan, black and blue - which I used when I was first saved in 1980. They are well loved and marked up. These days [at 75 years old] the font is too small for my old eyes. I really enjoy your channel.
Genuine leather is the mdf of leather, whereas full grain is the solid wood of leather. Then different qualities of full grain leather from low to high end. Same as pine wood to solid oak or cherry wood
The MDF of leather would be bonded leather. Genuine leather is more of a catchall term for leather, but tends to be a partial grain, usually outer layer, sometimes mid layer
@wsmoran I do disagree because bonded leather involves the blending of plastics. Genuine leather is only leather manufactured into sheets from off cuts and scraps from major factories. It's a way basically every manufacturer recycles and gets money for their waste. Genuine leather is heavily corrected just like bonded but it is only leather. Many uses will have stiffeners in between 2 pieces of "leather". Belts is a really good example of this.
Thinlines with center column reference is such an instant nostalgic bible feel for me. I think it's because the last bible my grandmother had (never really knew her, she passed when I was still practically a baby) was given to my mom and its an old 84 NIV Thinline in burgundy bonded leather with center column references. Then, the various center column reference Cambridge bibles I've always seen. Something about it. But I love my large print thinline CSB. For just a little bit of extra real-estate the print size is great.
Through the years I’ve tried the alphabet soup of Bible versions. But eventually the NASB by Moody Press returns. Received it in 1979. The unique stories about receiving each version. Are as unique as the individual version.
Dude, don’t worry about being scattered brained in a video like this. When this happens you show you know a lot about the topic, and you know more about the Bible than anyone I know online or in real life! That said I agree, for portability, comfort, and simplicity nothing beats a thin line! I love my newer NIV thin line that I carry to church, on vacation, or anywhere else.
I have a growing collection of thinlines: NIV, NASB95, NKJV, TLV, and some differing sizes of other translations, but the NIV & NASB95 are my go-to. For the same reasons, I love these more than any other format. I'm only 23, so I have no need for large text bibles; the thinline has small yet readable text, and is the most portable and practical out of any other bible format I've seen. Thinline for the win 🔥
I was beginning to think (with all the bloopers) that you needed a nap before doing this video, but you got it together. LOL, it added so much fun to the beginning. Additionally, it kept me from tuning out. I'm not a thinline fan. I'm a little older than you (70 yrs.) but recently had my vision corrected by cataract removal and implants. So I can now read 7 pt font without to much difficulty. Also, the gsm /opacity on thinline was always to thin, allowing the words to bleed through the pages. However, this one look great. I'm impressed. Usually I stick to 32 gsm personal size, but I may need to look into the new thinlines. Thanks again for a fun informative video.
I've got a few thinline bibles in different translations. I've got NIV, NKJV, ESV and NLT bibles. Thinline bibles are so easy to carry wherever you go, be it church or at home.
Gidday Tim. I must say that I absolutely LOVED the intro with all the bloopers, it was a lot of fun and I laughed so much. You should do more of these 😀. I don't have any thinline bibles so I can't comment on them. I love a good thick chunky bible, knowledge is power 🙂
As far as portability and the phone, consider a Kindle Oasis. They don't make them anymore so you have to ebay them, but they are front lit with a nice grip and two buttons so you can turn pages with your gripping thumb. Front lit as opposed to back lit makes the page look like paper and is easy on your eyes. I hve 8 translations, and all are study bibles on mine. They are a bit over $200 now if you can find one. Love your channel.
I've been carrying my collection of Bibles, hymnals (plus Liber Usualis) and my Book of Common Prayer on my various Kindles for a decade now. I have the original Kindle XL, which is no longer supported, but it's easy to upload to it with my PC. A bit heavy, but less than the whole library :) It's not backlit, but the size and font adjustments make it great for music or lecturn reading. I've got an old Paperwhite in a goatskin cover that I carry in my bag and dearly love, but it's got an annoying dead pixel, so I've recently replaced it with the current stock Kindle. If you set up Alexa to monitor Amazon offerings, you can occasionally get discontinued models as resales or refurbished, and they run good deals on pay by the month on newer products. I also have a couple Echo Shows for videos and other tasks. They are fairly loud and clear, and flexible for reading out loud. I have several vision problems and MS, and the Kindles and Alexa are great assistive tools that don't cost an arm and leg.
Got this Bible a couple of months ago and I love it. I had a TruTone Large Print Thinline ESV, but gave it to my sister who wanted a good translation to read and replaced it with this one.
Great review and love the bloopers at the start! I think this would be a very nice bible for my son who is on the go in college. Good size and classy look.
I would love to have a good recommendation on a thin line with really good opaque non-ghosting paper. I bought the ESV thin line, genuine leather and unfortunately the paper is really bad with the ghosting. Thanks for any advice you can offer and it’s always thank you for all that you do.
I have the premium collection of the NKJV Thinline from Thomas Nelson. They have the amazing opaque paper that doesn't ghost or bleed through. Would recommend checking it out!
My daily read/church Bible is an ESV Thinline in Horween leather I was lucky enough to get when there was an offer on! I absolutely love it. My previous church used the NIV and I had one of the thinline bibles in blue buffalo leather. Still love and read that one too.
Full grain is the entire grain of leather. Will be thicker leather depending on the part of the cow its from. Genuine leather is more of a catch all name, bit tends to be either the outer layer or mid layer of the grain. Genuine leather is usually also corrected grain, where they buff out any blemishes to make it "appear" nicer.
Love me a thinline Bible! When I had only one Bible, it was a thinline 1995 NASB that I got secondhand. Now my everyday carry Bible is a Common English Bible thinline and I love it. Love me some mainline translations, but you Evangelicals get all the options. 😂
It is being familiar with your Bible. I am so use to a single column CSB. The personal size slate just feels right in my hand. I also have a large print notetakers csb that I know where I put notes and I can just turn at a whim. I preached yesterday with my personal size and I was able to turn back and forth without skipping a beat
I never heard of a thinline until a few months ago. I'm not a fan because of print size and no cross-reference. At my age, I need a large print. I've always liked the NASB, until a few years ago, I was introduced to the ESV and took a shine to it, though I still stuck with NAS. Recently, I got the LSB, and it has become my go to. I've never owned a true full-grain or genuine leather Bible due to the expense.
Tim if you still use the NIV PSQ today, can you do a crash test update on how the NIV PSQ has held up over the years? great video by the way, I love this ESV Thinline as well, I did a video on it last week and have been using it everyday cause I really want to see how it holds up and patinas, so far so good!
I do love, thin line Bibles, and my first Bible that I read all the way through was an NKJV thin line. The one thing I typically don’t like about thin lines is that I like a nice thick, very opaque paper and you don’t typically get that in a thin line.
I love thinline too, I discovered them just few months back through UA-cam videos like this. I ordered the cheapest Church ESV Bible, so right now I only have and read that one. Will buy more later in future. The faint red letter may have been intentional by the editors making it unique for those Protestants who argue that Jesus' words don't apply to the church as he was an Old Testament guy. This reasoning is eventually presented while defending faith alone. So it's best to make the words faint that it's easy to skip them and don't fall for reading them as they are too judgmental and work based commands. On a serious note, you should start preaching against the red letter silly convention altogether to save us from this mess. It's absurd and ironic when they really don't believe his words apply to us. Red letter should be avoided for various reasons.
But anyway... my everyday carry is the Crossway Thinline in black genuine leather. It's the perfect size in every way. I do not like the one you featured because of the nicked and scratched leather. Otherwise the two seem identical.
I love thinlines! Why they put a concordance or maps in a thinline I don’t understand. I have an ultra thinline bonded black leather KJV I’ve had for over 25 years and like you, it is just my ‘home’ bible from when I was young in the faith. It needs a good rebind!!
There’s just something special about grabbing and holding a thinline Bible. My question to everybody is do you prefer a thinline or personal size Bible?
I thought I would like thinline Bibles because of the longer lines of texts. I got one, and I like how thin and flexible it is, but the lengths of the lines of text actually make my eyes more tired than the usual shorter ones. I can either read usual narrow columns, or regular books with only one column taking most of the page. The in-between column width of the thinline Bibles its tiring and annoying to my eyes. For me its because, even though on narrower columns my eyes still have to jump often to the beginning of the next verse, the jump is shorter. On thinlines, my eyes still have to jump often, but the distance is bigger. On regular books, the jump is bigger, but way less often.
I like my thinlines, I have too many of them, but it needs references to qualify as a carry - preferably in a centre column or margin. My "The One" being a CSB thinline reference. Just picked up an NLT thinline centre-column reference today too, so now I have two to tote around. Growing up, my only bible for my pleasure was an NIV study bible and so I can't just have plain text. Doesn't look right.
two thinline bibles i have are the NASB thinline large print in blue buffalo leather and the KJV Thinline Giant Print from the Premier Collection, it has a 12-point print size and it is Literally nothing but Scripture. the only thing on each page is just the text of Scripture and that's it. no footnotes, no cross-references, nothing. the only thing it has in the back are some Scriptures to look up depending on how you're feeling and it has some of the prayers and promises of the Bible and the miracles and parables of Jesus ( which Does include the Gospel of John and the Good Shepherd even though a lot of bibles leave that out in their " Help Features " in the back of a lot of Bibles ).
I just got in Trouble with the wife and I blamed it on you and Tim Nicholes lol . I just picked up the Thomas Nelson NKJV McLaren series letters of Christ in Blue Thine line Black Genuine Leather yesterday Amazon delivered it lol
Distractions while trying to read your Bible on a phone app? I have settings on my phone that whenever I open a Bible app (I have several), my DND comes on. No more distractns.
Just ordered my first thinline Bible; God help me it is a NIV too. I tend towards Bibles that share my body type, big and wide. I've spent the first 40 plus years of my walk with a KJV as my translation. I was a KJV only sort of guy until I modernized with a NKJV that became my prefered reading version circa 2005. Starting in the mid 1980's I added the NASB, NIV, Amplified, and a HCSB to the library. Most recently, like in the last two years, I've added a printed 1560 edition Geneva and finally the ESV a few months ago. I do have a question though. I'm not asking it as a troll, as I am in a similar boat. Since all our worldly goods will be burnt up at some point, and I figure this means any and all collections, should we limit the quantities of things we enjoy collecting? I do not have as many Bibles as you, maybe a dozen KJV's or more in various versions, but do collect model trains that are related to my time in transportation and such circa 1975ish. I enjoy the artistry of modeling things I remember, but if they all went away, I'd not be super sad. I'd trade everything for the ability to keep a great Bible in hand, and that would be enough, well that and my glasses. What do you think?
Hey Tim! Quick question. Is there such a thing as a thinline ESV single column? Thanks for your videos. Pulling for that ESV Quentel Desert Camel in the giveaway!!
Hi Tim, you crack me up..all the takes you took at the beginning of this video 😂😂, then all the times you forgot what type of leather Bible this was and having to get up to go look it up again and again 😂😂 are you just getting old and/or just forgetful. Just kidding 😊 but that’s the stuff I do and I’m 63. You’re too young for that. I love the thin line Bible and I have several crossways Bibles, thanks to you. Unfortunately my eyes are not good enough for the 8 pt. font. Can you recommend a good thin line Bible that would be at least a 9pt font? Thank you. You’re great. Blessings to you and Becca.
Thinlines are awesome. Sadly, my eyes don't agree! I should wear glasses but I'm also prone to putting things down and forgetting them so my glasses would never be on my face. They'd be at the store, at work, at church or at a friends house.
Thinlines are the best bible format, change my mind.
I can’t, I agree! I do love a wide margin or a personal size also but thinlines are so versatile!! Really the best!
Nah. Hard to do thinlines in single column format (which is the best).
Chunky bibles for the win.
No, you!
They are great if you can still see! The large -print thinlines have a big footprint even though they are thin.
Taking notes is absolutely priceless.
Point #3 is why I love large print personal size Bibles. When I became a Christian as a teenager, I saved up my babysitting money and picked out my own Bible that happened to be a personal size. Now, that's the kind of Bible that just "feels right" to me.
😂 love the bloopers. Crossway makes the best thinline bible, and that new full grain leader is really nice looking!
You're killing me Tim. I have way too many bibles already and now I have to have this one.
Sorry!
@@timwildsmith It will be here this morning. But hey there are way worse things to spend money on.
The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded. 😂
The difference between the 2 are that the Full Grain Leather is made from the top layer of the animal hide, which is really strong and has a rich texture. This gives the leather its nice, refined look.
On the other hand, Genuine Leather can be taken from any layer of the hide and is often sanded or buffed to smooth out any natural imperfections.
Right, you explain it better than me. "Genuine Leather" doesn't mean much today.
Pre-ordered your book!! Cannot wait, love from the UK 🇬🇧
Thanks!
One of my all time favorite bibles is the NRSV go anywhere compact thinline Bible, it’s a 6pt font but it’s such a clean layout that I can read it fairly comfortably even without my reading glasses and it has the apocrypha. I take it with me everywhere
I absolutely love that two tone CSB Thinline as a Church Bible.
This is perhaps the best recently released video in existence.
Hey thanks!
I’m right there with you man… thinline’s are the best!
Thinlines are great! They're so portable and just the right size to fit in your hand and flip through easily. My first bible was a thinline R. L. Allan (Collins Fontana 16 mo. ref.) that my parents gifted me in 1977. It was my daily throughout my teens and I still love the familiar thin profile! It has an 8 pt. font, is 5 1/4" x 7 1/2" and only 7/8" thick, but it still has a 250-page concordance and a set of maps.
Oh, my secondhand ESV faux leather bible is thin lined ! Learn something new everyday 😊
I love the simplicity of the pages, not busy, very relaxing to read.
Looks great! My kids have the early 80’s NIV, and NKJV… THEY ARE AWESOME.
“We’re not professionals!” ;)
Thanks for the laughs. :)
Love the bloopers! 😂 I too am a fan of thinline Bibles. My favorite is my ESV top grain leather. It's a bit larger since my aging eyes need large print these days. It just feels right in my hands.
I have a number of bibles, but I really like the smaller one since I can grab it and stuff it in my lunch bag( fits perfectly) and take it anywhere. I write notes in it, highlight it, etc. If I need to do some research I go home and do it in my big study Bible.
Familiarity is so true. For ten years I used a zippered NLT pocket Bible, when it was falling apart beyond usability I went searching for a bible. Now I use a zippered NKJV PSQ, something about the zipper that makes my Bible feel like my Bible I guess
I have a thinline, single colour, brown faux leather NET. It's my fave bible these days. I love, love, love the KJV, but the NET thinline is my favourite these days.
Thin lines are my favorite as well. Got my first one a year or so ago, and I loved it so much.
I like the size of thinline bibles because it keeps them light and also allows them to have larger print without making the Bible too thick and hefty. I have a large print NLT filament thinline in synthetic leather and it’s great.
For a guy who doesn't typically like Thinline Bibles I've sure had my fair share of 'em in the past. I've had three that I particularly loved: NASB, ESV, and TNIV. I carried that TNIV one with me quite often. The portability of a Thinline that I can keep in my truck is so convenient.
I’m so ready for this video 🥳
I've had my ESV thinline fullgrain for two weeks now and it's my new EDC Bible. It's awesome
What makes the CSB Thinline so unique as well is it uses a 9 point typeface. If Holman made a premium version of that exact Bible I would give them my money yesterday. Thinlines are my favorite.
The paper in the CSB Thinline wrinkles a lot and doesn'thold up at all with microns. I used 005 microns and colored pencils in mine, and it is ruined.
I'd love a CSB Thinline with some premium paper! Or paper that is as good as what Crossway uses. My Crossway Thinline has great paper. 😊
@@CreationhorseI agree. The paper is not quality at all. A nice goatskin or calfskin bible with some quality GSM paper would be amazing.
The other publishers like Crossway, Tyndale, and Thomas Nelson make nice Thinlines with good paper. Holman is the exception. That's sad, because I really like the CSB.
LOVE thinlines! I have sooooo many on my shelves. They’re my favorite for teaching. My favorite one is a CSB I bought from Scriptura last year as a gift to myself on my first Mother’s Day.
I have a crossway premium ESV rebound by narrowgate leather. It’s so rustic and patinas so nicely as the years go on!
I never knew thinlines til about 1.5 yrs ago... I totally agree. Thinlines are the BEST!!
I have an old New King James thinline alligator skin bible from Nelson with medium print book intros, Concordance and maps, just got done repairing some of the pages. Thinlines are what I carry to church, except for when I'm preaching and studying
It's hard to argue against thinline Bibles. The two column portability is outstanding.
I have an ESV I bought in tru-tone then had rebound in calfskin that I use to preach every week. I’ve found it to be the easiest for me personally to hold.
Rob here! Great video and I love the light heartedness! Okay…I get your reasoning…For me, I carry the Schuyler Stridon NASB as my carry everywhere…it is just not that big and ohhhh the quality…I don’t own a thin line specifically, but the Stridon is close enough for me with enough bells and whistles to help me when I need it on the road.🤷♂️🤷♂️
Me too! Thin line is the best
I have a ESV tru tone thinline I used for years. The Lord used it to shape me. Amen.
Thanks for including all of the bloopers - you made me smile. I have 3 of those NIV thinline leather Bibles like yours - brown/tan, black and blue - which I used when I was first saved in 1980. They are well loved and marked up. These days [at 75 years old] the font is too small for my old eyes. I really enjoy your channel.
TKS from Brazil
Genuine leather is the mdf of leather, whereas full grain is the solid wood of leather. Then different qualities of full grain leather from low to high end. Same as pine wood to solid oak or cherry wood
The MDF of leather would be bonded leather. Genuine leather is more of a catchall term for leather, but tends to be a partial grain, usually outer layer, sometimes mid layer
@wsmoran I do disagree because bonded leather involves the blending of plastics. Genuine leather is only leather manufactured into sheets from off cuts and scraps from major factories. It's a way basically every manufacturer recycles and gets money for their waste. Genuine leather is heavily corrected just like bonded but it is only leather. Many uses will have stiffeners in between 2 pieces of "leather". Belts is a really good example of this.
Thinlines with center column reference is such an instant nostalgic bible feel for me. I think it's because the last bible my grandmother had (never really knew her, she passed when I was still practically a baby) was given to my mom and its an old 84 NIV Thinline in burgundy bonded leather with center column references.
Then, the various center column reference Cambridge bibles I've always seen. Something about it.
But I love my large print thinline CSB. For just a little bit of extra real-estate the print size is great.
Through the years I’ve tried the alphabet soup of Bible versions. But eventually the NASB by Moody Press returns. Received it in 1979. The unique stories about receiving each version. Are as unique as the individual version.
I love thinline Bibles!!!! My cheap ESV thinline TruTone is still my favorite Bible!
Dude, don’t worry about being scattered brained in a video like this. When this happens you show you know a lot about the topic, and you know more about the Bible than anyone I know online or in real life! That said I agree, for portability, comfort, and simplicity nothing beats a thin line! I love my newer NIV thin line that I carry to church, on vacation, or anywhere else.
Love the outtakes. It proves you're NOT a machine!
I have a growing collection of thinlines: NIV, NASB95, NKJV, TLV, and some differing sizes of other translations, but the NIV & NASB95 are my go-to. For the same reasons, I love these more than any other format. I'm only 23, so I have no need for large text bibles; the thinline has small yet readable text, and is the most portable and practical out of any other bible format I've seen. Thinline for the win 🔥
I love this explanation of the thin lines! I really love the bloopers in the beginning!
Yay, thank you!
I was beginning to think (with all the bloopers) that you needed a nap before doing this video, but you got it together. LOL, it added so much fun to the beginning. Additionally, it kept me from tuning out. I'm not a thinline fan. I'm a little older than you (70 yrs.) but recently had my vision corrected by cataract removal and implants. So I can now read 7 pt font without to much difficulty. Also, the gsm /opacity on thinline was always to thin, allowing the words to bleed through the pages. However, this one look great. I'm impressed. Usually I stick to 32 gsm personal size, but I may need to look into the new thinlines. Thanks again for a fun informative video.
I love the character of the leather on this Bible!
I've got a few thinline bibles in different translations. I've got NIV, NKJV, ESV and NLT bibles. Thinline bibles are so easy to carry wherever you go, be it church or at home.
I’m concerned that this thumbnail leaves your attitude toward thinline Bibles ambiguous. 😂
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Thinlines are the best for church, in my opinion. The thin and easy to carry nature makes it ideal for church.
Gidday Tim. I must say that I absolutely LOVED the intro with all the bloopers, it was a lot of fun and I laughed so much. You should do more of these 😀. I don't have any thinline bibles so I can't comment on them. I love a good thick chunky bible, knowledge is power 🙂
Glad you enjoyed it!
As far as portability and the phone, consider a Kindle Oasis. They don't make them anymore so you have to ebay them, but they are front lit with a nice grip and two buttons so you can turn pages with your gripping thumb. Front lit as opposed to back lit makes the page look like paper and is easy on your eyes. I hve 8 translations, and all are study bibles on mine. They are a bit over $200 now if you can find one. Love your channel.
I've been carrying my collection of Bibles, hymnals (plus Liber Usualis) and my Book of Common Prayer on my various Kindles for a decade now. I have the original Kindle XL, which is no longer supported, but it's easy to upload to it with my PC. A bit heavy, but less than the whole library :) It's not backlit, but the size and font adjustments make it great for music or lecturn reading.
I've got an old Paperwhite in a goatskin cover that I carry in my bag and dearly love, but it's got an annoying dead pixel, so I've recently replaced it with the current stock Kindle.
If you set up Alexa to monitor Amazon offerings, you can occasionally get discontinued models as resales or refurbished, and they run good deals on pay by the month on newer products.
I also have a couple Echo Shows for videos and other tasks. They are fairly loud and clear, and flexible for reading out loud.
I have several vision problems and MS, and the Kindles and Alexa are great assistive tools that don't cost an arm and leg.
Got this Bible a couple of months ago and I love it. I had a TruTone Large Print Thinline ESV, but gave it to my sister who wanted a good translation to read and replaced it with this one.
Great review and love the bloopers at the start! I think this would be a very nice bible for my son who is on the go in college. Good size and classy look.
I would love to have a good recommendation on a thin line with really good opaque non-ghosting paper. I bought the ESV thin line, genuine leather and unfortunately the paper is really bad with the ghosting. Thanks for any advice you can offer and it’s always thank you for all that you do.
I have the premium collection of the NKJV Thinline from Thomas Nelson. They have the amazing opaque paper that doesn't ghost or bleed through. Would recommend checking it out!
My daily read/church Bible is an ESV Thinline in Horween leather I was lucky enough to get when there was an offer on! I absolutely love it. My previous church used the NIV and I had one of the thinline bibles in blue buffalo leather. Still love and read that one too.
Full grain is the entire grain of leather. Will be thicker leather depending on the part of the cow its from. Genuine leather is more of a catch all name, bit tends to be either the outer layer or mid layer of the grain. Genuine leather is usually also corrected grain, where they buff out any blemishes to make it "appear" nicer.
My favorite thin line bible is the Thomas Nelson NKJV Thinline blue cover.
For portability and ease of use, I tend to reach for my large print thinline NIV from Zondervan.
Tim's bloopers are hilarious
Love me a thinline Bible! When I had only one Bible, it was a thinline 1995 NASB that I got secondhand. Now my everyday carry Bible is a Common English Bible thinline and I love it. Love me some mainline translations, but you Evangelicals get all the options. 😂
😂😂😂😂 that was SO funny this intro!!! LOL
It is being familiar with your Bible. I am so use to a single column CSB. The personal size slate just feels right in my hand. I also have a large print notetakers csb that I know where I put notes and I can just turn at a whim. I preached yesterday with my personal size and I was able to turn back and forth without skipping a beat
I like them for portability as well (that’s my church Bible). I have the dark brown ESV thinline with the spine hubs. I love it!
Giant print is the best 😄
I never heard of a thinline until a few months ago. I'm not a fan because of print size and no cross-reference. At my age, I need a large print. I've always liked the NASB, until a few years ago, I was introduced to the ESV and took a shine to it, though I still stuck with NAS. Recently, I got the LSB, and it has become my go to. I've never owned a true full-grain or genuine leather Bible due to the expense.
Great intro!! The bloopers got me dying!! 😂
Tim if you still use the NIV PSQ today, can you do a crash test update on how the NIV PSQ has held up over the years?
great video by the way, I love this ESV Thinline as well, I did a video on it last week and have been using it everyday cause I really want to see how it holds up and patinas, so far so good!
I like the brown ribbon! I don't see that color very often.
I concur. I have an ESV LP thinline reference, same edition available from Alastair Begg. Mine is trutone that I bought for
I love large print thinlines.
Yeah large print thinline really is the sweet spot.
And I say that as a 29 year old that has 20/20 vision.
I do love, thin line Bibles, and my first Bible that I read all the way through was an NKJV thin line. The one thing I typically don’t like about thin lines is that I like a nice thick, very opaque paper and you don’t typically get that in a thin line.
I don't love short, chunky Bibles - so much gilt area just waiting to get scratched! Enter the thinline ...
I love thinlines 👍
Big fan of showing the bloopers
I love thinline too, I discovered them just few months back through UA-cam videos like this. I ordered the cheapest Church ESV Bible, so right now I only have and read that one. Will buy more later in future. The faint red letter may have been intentional by the editors making it unique for those Protestants who argue that Jesus' words don't apply to the church as he was an Old Testament guy. This reasoning is eventually presented while defending faith alone. So it's best to make the words faint that it's easy to skip them and don't fall for reading them as they are too judgmental and work based commands. On a serious note, you should start preaching against the red letter silly convention altogether to save us from this mess. It's absurd and ironic when they really don't believe his words apply to us. Red letter should be avoided for various reasons.
Tim I think you were really caffeinated during the filming of this video 😂
But anyway... my everyday carry is the Crossway Thinline in black genuine leather. It's the perfect size in every way. I do not like the one you featured because of the nicked and scratched leather. Otherwise the two seem identical.
Broadman and Holman large print thinline all day 💪🏼
I love thinlines! Why they put a concordance or maps in a thinline I don’t understand. I have an ultra thinline bonded black leather KJV I’ve had for over 25 years and like you, it is just my ‘home’ bible from when I was young in the faith. It needs a good rebind!!
You’re videos are the best
Hey thanks!
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I have the Thomas Nelson NKJV Ultra Thin Bonded leather (planning to rebind with Goat skin).
Btw, thoroughly enjoy your videos! Looking forward to your book release, I’ve preordered. Have a great day!
Honestly, if this were black letter I would give away four of my ESVs (Alpha, Omega, PSQ, Scriptura) and buy this one. 😂
My Bibles are all thinline... 1.KJV 2. ESV 3. NASB
Very cool! Didn’t Tyndale send you a new premium thinline in their latest box? How is it?
There’s just something special about grabbing and holding a thinline Bible. My question to everybody is do you prefer a thinline or personal size Bible?
They're probably my favorites
I thought I would like thinline Bibles because of the longer lines of texts. I got one, and I like how thin and flexible it is, but the lengths of the lines of text actually make my eyes more tired than the usual shorter ones. I can either read usual narrow columns, or regular books with only one column taking most of the page. The in-between column width of the thinline Bibles its tiring and annoying to my eyes. For me its because, even though on narrower columns my eyes still have to jump often to the beginning of the next verse, the jump is shorter. On thinlines, my eyes still have to jump often, but the distance is bigger. On regular books, the jump is bigger, but way less often.
I like my thinlines, I have too many of them, but it needs references to qualify as a carry - preferably in a centre column or margin. My "The One" being a CSB thinline reference. Just picked up an NLT thinline centre-column reference today too, so now I have two to tote around.
Growing up, my only bible for my pleasure was an NIV study bible and so I can't just have plain text. Doesn't look right.
Do you like large print (larger size) thinline bibles or personal size (smaller than the large print thinlines, but thicker) bibles better?
Can you do a review on the ESV Journaling Bible, Interleaved Edition (TruTone, Mahogany, Mosaic Cross Design) Imitation Leather?
two thinline bibles i have are the NASB thinline large print in blue buffalo leather and the KJV Thinline Giant Print from the Premier Collection, it has a 12-point print size and it is Literally nothing but Scripture. the only thing on each page is just the text of Scripture and that's it. no footnotes, no cross-references, nothing. the only thing it has in the back are some Scriptures to look up depending on how you're feeling and it has some of the prayers and promises of the Bible and the miracles and parables of Jesus ( which Does include the Gospel of John and the Good Shepherd even though a lot of bibles leave that out in their " Help Features " in the back of a lot of Bibles ).
I just got in Trouble with the wife and I blamed it on you and Tim Nicholes lol . I just picked up the Thomas Nelson NKJV McLaren series letters of Christ in Blue Thine line Black Genuine Leather yesterday Amazon delivered it lol
Hahaha! Whoops!
Thinlines are cool, But I want a THICCline for once.
Ha!
Distractions while trying to read your Bible on a phone app? I have settings on my phone that whenever I open a Bible app (I have several), my DND comes on. No more distractns.
"Full Grain" leather is supposed to be better quality.
Do you know of any Thinline Bibles with line matched text? Seems like that’s rare
Just ordered my first thinline Bible; God help me it is a NIV too. I tend towards Bibles that share my body type, big and wide. I've spent the first 40 plus years of my walk with a KJV as my translation. I was a KJV only sort of guy until I modernized with a NKJV that became my prefered reading version circa 2005. Starting in the mid 1980's I added the NASB, NIV, Amplified, and a HCSB to the library. Most recently, like in the last two years, I've added a printed 1560 edition Geneva and finally the ESV a few months ago. I do have a question though. I'm not asking it as a troll, as I am in a similar boat. Since all our worldly goods will be burnt up at some point, and I figure this means any and all collections, should we limit the quantities of things we enjoy collecting? I do not have as many Bibles as you, maybe a dozen KJV's or more in various versions, but do collect model trains that are related to my time in transportation and such circa 1975ish. I enjoy the artistry of modeling things I remember, but if they all went away, I'd not be super sad. I'd trade everything for the ability to keep a great Bible in hand, and that would be enough, well that and my glasses. What do you think?
Hey Tim! Quick question. Is there such a thing as a thinline ESV single column? Thanks for your videos.
Pulling for that ESV Quentel Desert Camel in the giveaway!!
Actually there used to be. I gave mine away. There are some reviews on UA-cam if you search. But it wasn’t thin and the ghosting was awful
Hi Tim, you crack me up..all the takes you took at the beginning of this video 😂😂, then all the times you forgot what type of leather Bible this was and having to get up to go look it up again and again 😂😂 are you just getting old and/or just forgetful. Just kidding 😊 but that’s the stuff I do and I’m 63. You’re too young for that. I love the thin line Bible and I have several crossways Bibles, thanks to you. Unfortunately my eyes are not good enough for the 8 pt. font. Can you recommend a good thin line Bible that would be at least a 9pt font? Thank you. You’re great. Blessings to you and Becca.
I also love thinline Bibles Tim. They are the BEST! Easy to carry to Church, or anywhere! 🦬🥦🥦🥦🦬
The paper is always too thin on the thinline Bibles. And even with reading glasses, the type face is too small for my 65-year-old eyes😢.
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Thinlines are awesome. Sadly, my eyes don't agree! I should wear glasses but I'm also prone to putting things down and forgetting them so my glasses would never be on my face. They'd be at the store, at work, at church or at a friends house.