The daily walk Bible NLT: 31 Days with Jesus

(Amazon UK link)

I am always interested in free ebooks for the Kindle, and peruse the offers from time to time. I thought this looked interesting when I spotted it in the Christian section on Amazon UK, and the Amazon US reviews were mostly positive.

'The daily walk Bible NLT: 31 Days with Jesus' is - as I discovered when I started it - published by the people responsible for the 'Walk thru the Bible' program. That is a great way of encouraging people to remember key points from either the Old or New Testament. It has actually taken me rather longer than 31 days to read this book, because I didn't remember on several days.

Overall, I thought it a good idea. It covers all four gospels with 3-4 chapters each day, in the New Living Translation, plus 'insights', notes and and an overview at the beginning of each day's readings. There isn't anything particularly different or new in them, but it was good to read the gospels in chunks like this. It meant covering one account after another, over the run-up to Christmas.

This ebook is apparently taken from a full 'Daily walk Bible' which covers the entire Bible in a year, and is - in a sense - an advert or taster for it. The idea, in my opinion, is good.

Unfortunately the Kindle version of this book has rather poor formatting problems. There are enormous, page-sized letters at the headings of the different sections, and (at the other extreme) little overview tables that are too tiny to read. It also has what appear to be hyperlinks within the text to other parts of the Bible. But they do not work, as it's just an excerpt. Unfortunately, the editor did not think of removing these, which was a bit annoying.

So while I would recommend the concept and content in a low-key way, the formatting lets it down quite badly. I imagine that the full version as a printed book would be a great deal better. This 31 days version is, as far as I can tell, only available as an e-book.

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