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I recently decided to become even more officially middle aged by buying large print Bibles to help with the middle age bonus of worse vision than you already dealt with your whole life. It’s great isn’t it? I decided to take the opportunity to try out new translations as well. I still have almost a dozen options in the house between me and my husband’s collections, but they weren’t meeting my want for an easy to *read* and just *enjoy* the Bible more like a general book to read… they feel more like reading a textbook (NASB, ESV, NET, etc) or they have undergone one too many revisions to where I no longer like what’s currently in print (NIV), or just clunky (AMP, KJV). So I found a free online Parallel Bible website and tried a bunch and the NLT kept being the column that I was most enjoying. It was just easy and comfortable and enjoyable but most of all inviting… I wanted to keep reading without effort, it was just different enough to my “ear” to feel new again without being so new/different to feel foreign (like paraphrase translations like MSG, Passion, the original Living Bible). It also didn’t feel like I was being given a simpler translation like I was a kid (NRIV). This was the Goldilocks translation I wanted as my daily bedside reader. I also really like the NLT’s use of subject/transition headings so you can more easily find specific stories/events and have a better idea of when/where is a good stopping point when reading for leisure.I picked this specific edition for when I want to read without study notes for minimal distraction or for when I want to leave the house with a printed Bible. The phone app is easy to use and it’s not too much added time to occasionally load up notes on a verse I’m reading. (Although if I wanted to read a lot of notes while researching a topic or reading through a difficult Book of the Bible I would prefer to use the Life Application Study Bible which is available in large print. That version is just not very portable or easy to hold while casually reading without support.)As for this printing I find the font size to be comfortable to read the text and the notes. The cover is beautiful and feels sturdy enough. The dimensions are really nice. A little larger than an average non-study Bible but similar to Bibles with devotional or added Helps/Note content. I can easily read it in bed and even one handed reading is possible.The paper is decent enough quality. It’s a little on the thin side to reduce weight and size of the book. Ghosting is not an issue in good lighting and hardly noticeable with a good clip on book light. In bad lighting you may need to lift up the page you’re reading and let it gently fall back into place so it’s not completely pressed into the underlying page, or use a blank piece of printer or cardstock paper (which doubles as a bookmark) as a blotter page behind the page you’re reading if you’re really sensitive to it. I use pencil and Frixion Pastel Highlighters in Bibles and that works well on this paper with minimal ghosting (especially if you overlap coats) but no bleed through (however, erasing Frixion Highlighter causes the paper to pucker and a faint amount of discoloration will remain).I do wish the publisher had taken the time to do line matching throughout the text, which is frustrating because it would have reduced ghosting to almost none and would not have been difficult but it seems like more than half the pages already fell into close to line matching. So it’s weird when you hit the page that stands out as the noticeable oddball, which seems to be about every third page. I also would have tweaked the kerning of the font for a little clearer reading experience but my eyes got used to it pretty quickly. I debated getting a larger font to read completely without glasses even in lower light but found that the larger giant print fonts either made the Bible too large to hold comfortably or made my eyes have to do too much flicking back and forth that it causes even more eye fatigue and headache. I discovered my clip on book light often helps make this font more readable enough that I rarely need my reading glasses.I really like the bonus features in the app. It seems equivalent to the NLT Study Bible notes with some additional devotional/reflection articles from the One Year Unlocking the Bible, the One Year Book of Discovering Jesus in the OT, the One Year Book of Encouragement, Dancing in the Desert, Sacred Questions Journey, and more. It would be nice to be able to buy on additional content so you wouldn’t need to buy multiple Bibles that have the exact same translation. However there’s currently no way to easily move from one author’s article to their next one, you are stuck flipping through the verses until you spot a new article from that same author. Sadly there is no way to read the NLT itself in the app when you’re away from home and have a few minutes to spare, unless you go online or download the NLT from other free apps that provide it.I really think they did a great job overall. I wish the paper was a tad thicker but I understand the decision in terms of price and overall thickness/weight of the complete Bible. I do wish they would make a Psalms + Proverbs + NT in this font size in a more compact body for even more portability.Another thing worth noting is I really enjoy the NLT 365 Day Reading Plan which gives you a lot of the most important passages in chronological order while minimizing repetitious/overlapping content and “dry” sections of history/lists that many new Believers or new readers struggle with (and often abandon trying to read through the Bible before Leviticus is even over). For an even faster survey/summary/Big Picture View of the Bible check out the Wayfinding Bible “routes” in the Partial Bible Reading Plans in the Filament app.

It’s a great way of giving a study bible without all the busyness footnotes can add to the page because of the app adds information on every page with a scan of your phone . NLT is an easy read as so they might stay in the word . This was a gift to my daughter who just lost her husband at 40. Family is signing it with little notes. The 2 year old just a hand print. Between the words in red and some love this is a nice bible.

I love everything about this Bible! It's my favorite version, it's small enough to carry around, the print is perfect for my eyesight, and the cover is beautiful! I'm so very happy with my purchase. 😊

I love this Bible. It has an app to go with it. With the help of the app, I’m reading the Bible in a year. Actually the voice you choose reads for you. It also feels nice, and it’s pretty.

What a beautiful Bible ! I love everything about it ,I’m going to order one for my daughter !

My favorite Bible, my carry around Bible, a manageable size, not cumbersome at all, super soft cover, the print is legitimately large enough to read - not “pretend” large print. Thick pages that can take highlight without bleeding. I haven’t even played around with the filament tech elements, and I treasure it just the same!

I justo love it! Thanks!

It's easy enough to read; however, if you have bad eyesight and rely on truly giant print, you might want to opt for something else. We purchased a few of these for our church for people who didn't have a bible and needed one that wasn't tiny print (mostly elderly). They've all been able to read it but it would have been nice if it were a tad larger print.