Palm Bible Plus
| Developer(s) | Yih-Chun Hu (formerly Poetry Poon) |
|---|---|
| Stable release | 3.2
/ November 28, 2005 |
| Operating system | Palm OS |
| Type | e-books |
| License | GNU GPL |
| Website | http://palmbibleplus.sourceforge.net/ |
Palm Bible Plus is an open source document viewing program for Palm OS-based PDAs, focused on displaying the Bible and commentaries about the Bible. It allows the user to read Bibles stored in RAM or on a memory card via VFS. Besides reading the Bible, Bible Reader can search the Bible. Users can keep track of favorite verses by bookmarks and compare different versions by parallel windows. It is licensed under the GNU GPL.
This program is a fork of Bible Reader for Palm, a project started in August 2001 by Poetry Poon as an open source project licensed under the GNU GPL. However, this changed in November 2002 when Poon decided to go closed source. Yih-Chun Hu then began and led the project to improve and refine the program as an open source program.
A vast number of Bible translations and commentaries are available for Palm Bible Plus. English translations available include the traditional King James Version (KJV) and the modern well-respected translation the English Standard Version (ESV). Many other versions in many other languages, including original Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic text, are available. The program allows two views to be seen at once, allowing someone to view two different translations, a translation and the original, or some text and a commentary at the same time.
This program is one of the most popular bible readers on Palm-based PDAs[citation needed] since it costs nothing, is open source / free software, has a large number of documents available for it, and is actively maintained.