My wife gave me a Kindle as my Christmas present (I know it’s not Christmas yet, but I have very little self control). After trying out a variety of free content, I wanted to try to find the LDS Scriptures (Book of Mormon, Bible, Doctrine & Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price) in a format I could use with the Kindle.
I’ve always liked having scriptures on my PDA or phone, but since moving to a BlackBerry from Windows Mobile, it’s been a bit of a pain. The only real option is MobiPocket, which I’ve found to be a little clunky and slow, even on a relatively fast BlackBerry (Curve 8900). I used YanCEyWare on Windows Mobile; if you’re on a WinMo phone, it’s head and shoulders the best solution.
Anyway, back to the Kindle. If you’re looking in Amazon’s Kindle store, you’ll see a few options with rather idiotic reviews and no details about what’s contained. My key requirements were semi-decent speed, inline links to footnotes and cross-references, and sizable text.
Well, the answer is to use the BlackBerry version provided by LDSBookClub.com. This is a partially stupid option, but you can get the file for free this way. The reason it’s stupid is because you have to download an executable in order to get the file itself, and it’s not set up to really just “work” for your Kindle. Not tricky, but honestly, it’s just a little shady to take a publication the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints makes available for free and use it as a loss leader for your own sales. Just make the file available.
Anyway, once you’ve gone through their installer, you should have the file stores someplace on your hard drive. You can run their launcher, right-click on the “LDS Scriptures” book in the MobiPocket PC app, and select “Open Containing Folder”. That will put you right there. Take the file (LDS Scriptures – Blackberry.prc) and drop it in your Kindle’s documents folder. Voila. It’s a very workable, well-linked set of Scriptures for your Kindle.
I hope this helps save someone some time and effort (not to mention some money).
Just received my Kindle in the mail today. I followed your instructions to download the scriptures. They worked perfectly. Your blog did save me quite a bit of snot and tears. I would have never figured it out on my own.
Thanks so much.
Thank you! I just got my kindle today and had a similiar experience to yours. I really appreciate your time to help others out.
Worked great for me too. Thanks.
Just got it up and running on my 8900. Much better than MobiPocket IMHO.
Hi I have an issue figuring out how to navigate my scriptures on this. Id there a secret to it? I would really be able to use my kindle instead of my actual scriptures because they are so heavy.