I just purchased a budget version of this from Walmart. It is the Giant Print Personal Size. No frills. Leathersoft cover. But it retails for $20 and Walmart was selling it for only around $12. I am an ESV guy but I'm quite happy to have it my library for reference. I'd previously owned an NIV 2011 pew bibke but gave it away to a teenage employee at my local McDonald's who told me he'd recently became a Christian but didn't own a Bible in plain English. I never saw him again but I hope that Bible was a blessing to him.
I have 7 or 8 Premier Collection Bibles, as well as this one and 2 others in buffalo (NIV Thinline and NASB reference). The buffalo is a step down from the PC but still super nice. I actually use the personal size NIV for my job as a hospice chaplain and I can enjoy a quality Bible while working but I don’t worry about it getting trashed.
Well, you convinced me. It’s been sitting in my cart and I’m like “Do I, don’t I, do I , don’t I…” and I think I’m going to pull the trigger. NIV is what we use at church and I have a Life Application NIV and I hate the bonded leather as I think it just looks super cheap. Plus it’s a weighty tome to try to lug to church and Bible study and is better left on my kitchen table for home study. This looks perfect! I appreciate your review.
Compared to when I was growing up in the sixties and seventies, so many Bibles are really better made, with better materials. Of course, some (I'm thinking Kirkbride, Cambridge, Oxford) went down for most of their Bibles. What I really notice in my sixties is how terrific are many of the simulated-leather Bibles! I bought the ESV Study Bible in some two-tone brown fake leather as I knew it wouldn't get heavy usage anyway. It's just lovely--I'm so glad I didn't spring for leather. In Catholic Bibles, St. Benedict Press and Baronius Press are also issuing simulations that are better than what I used to see from Nelson and World in leather way back when. I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a good simulated leather over a cheap bonded leather any day.
I love that size Bible. I also like Buffalo leather. I am going to review a Buffalo leather ESV Study Bible in the near future. Interesting that that's getting to be a popular leather to use.
Thanks, Tim! I’ve been looking for an NIV reader and think this will be it. Returning a Cambridge Clarion - beautiful Bible but the font is marginally small for my 72 year old eyes. My 27 year old Holman Thinline is starting to be too hard to read, sadly.
Great video! I really like Buffalo leather, personally. I only have one Buffalo leather Bible (CBP), and really like it. It’s a little sturdier than goat skin (or at least my one Bible is), which I prefer.
Hey Patrick! Crossway started making Buffalo ESV editions last year, and they have more on the way. Here's one of my recent reviews: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eSPF8mBddhM.html
@@timwildsmith that’s good to know. I recently traded for an NIV PSQ and am looking forward to seeing how it will handle being on the go. I’ve been impressed with Zondervan’s premier collection and though I don’t have a Bible from their GLE, the font size for this particular edition is appealing, my eyesight seems to be going. Do you think a large Zondervan 11 point could hold up to Schuyler’s Milo in terms of boldness and readability?
Very nice Bible and great review as well. I have the ESV Large print personal size in Buffalo leather. I like the large font but I wish they would do a 10 point and make it a bit thinner like this version and add some cross references at the bottom as well.
So is this like water Buffalo or American bison/Buffalo leather? The terms are interchanged a lot and can get confusing if you are looking for a particular leather.
Great review and lovely bible, even though I'm not a big NIV fan. Also, you totally don't need to say all the things just because it's youtube! I can't tell you how many times my friends and I talk about how we just want to watch the video, because if we enjoy the video, we'll subscribe or like it naturally. Could just be me/us though lol!
... Also, I would argue that the reformers knew plenty well about poetry, yet they never felt the need to break up pattern of the page in their Bishop's, Great, Geneva, and KJV English bibles.
NIV comfort print drives me crazy!! It’s soooo dark that it makes me feel like I’m zoning out constantly. And I love reading my Bible. I actually searched high and low for a NIV bible with the old print and found out thankfully! But now the “comfort print” is everywhere and I wish they gave options. Between light and dark
It seems the print varies little but the paper does. Translucent paper and big font comfort print mean I can read both sides of each page and it's maddening, I can't use any cheap NIVs but paperback.
To me, buffalo leather looks "handsome". Stiff like a military formal wear, especially the black ones. Even more attractive than the goatskin leather to me.
Tim, great review! Now, if this was an NASB with that awesome font size, I’d jump at it. It would be perfect for reading in bed! I’m not an NIV fan, but this is a really nice Bible. The outside looks really nice, and like I said, the font size is so perfect! Thanks for sharing! ✝️
Sorry I’m a month later on commenting this so you might already know this, but, They do make an NASB 1995 Large-Print Thinline Bible, Comfort Print--genuine buffalo leather, blue ZONDERVAN / GENUINE LEATHER It is a beautiful bible.
Honestly I really don't care for poetic setting. The idea is almost a little stuffy. As if most people should know what poetic setting means? Most people do not know what this strange setting means. I feel like it's distracting. I would much rather have a more uniform print pattern.
