Faith to Walk Ministries shares the comparison between the new Bonded Leather and Leathersoft Thompson Chain Reference Bibles from Zondervan. Available at: www.christianbook.com
Awesome! I ordered the large print leather soft. It’ll be my first Thompson chain, so I’m super excited to see I made the right choice. I bought the naves topical reference as well to get some good studying in. Thanks for the great review! God bless .
You video confirmed my decision to buy a Zondervan TC Bible. I have seen Leathersoft covers improve over the years, so it will be an NKJV Leathersoft for me. I have a Large Print KJV TC Bible with an Iron-Calfskin cover, so it'll be my other favorite translation this time.
Great comparison I am eventually going to break in and get one of these I love the Thompson. I would imagine the leather soft would be a little cheaper as well which is another plus for my bifold.
It only has one ribbon.You would think with a Reference Bible, more than one ribbon. Not happy with Zondervan. The quality is not as good as it once was. Thank you for sharing and GOD BLESS!
Oh I agree, it could have more quality. Of course, about the ribbon, Kirkbride would only use one as well. I think they are gong to wait for the comfort print to come out to have better materials and craftsmanship. I am hoping they will do it with the premier collection level.
I just have not had good experience with leathersoft. It always starts to disintegrate after a few years for me. Contrastingly, I have a bonded leather NKJV Thompson from Thomas Nelson circa 2006 that is holding up nicely. I just ordered the ESV in bonded leather and may eventually look into a rebind to something nicer in the future.
Check out the fairly new Thomas Nelson KJV single column end of the verse reference Bible in comfort print. I own 20+ bibles over a 50 year period and this is no doubt my favorite Bible…even in a $20 leathersoft.
The paper, to me, is about the same or a little better as the recent Kirkbride ones. It’s not as good as the Korkbrides that were printed 10 years ago.
*Hello. I've recently watched several RU-vid documentary videos of discovery of the buried city of Sodom & Gomorrah! IT'S VERY FASCINATING & EXCITING!!!! I checked in the archeology portion of my Kirkbride NASB 1993 Thompson Chain...and unfortunately, (under Sodom & Gomorrah) there are no photos of the Sulfer-Brimstone balls or any of the other interesting finds in back portion of the Thompson Chain. *I was wondering if any of the more updated bibles have any photos or interesting finds of Sodom & Gomorrah are in there. I surely hope there is! If anyone has an updated Thompson...let me know! 😇 Blessings*
Thanks for this review, you are correct that the bonded leather is not exactly good quality because you have to glue it. I got a Bonded leather copy and I had to glue all the edges from top to bottom. And I was going to buy myself another copy of it but then I looked on Amazon and they had raised the price to $74. But the leather soft is like $50, now if what you say is true that the leather solf is better than the bonded leather that's the one I'll pick this time around
If you have the chance definitely the CBP. Sorry it took time to get back to you. My wife passed and I was pretty tore up for a while. Thank you for watching!
That's a nice one. I have a few genuine leather editions from Kirkbride. Then Zondervan became the steward of the TCR after (unfortunately) Kirkbride went out of business. Many of us knew it was coming, because the quality of the Thompson was going down bad. These are Zondervan's first printing of the 5th edition until they revamped the new comfort print ones.
I received mine, with shipping damage. The corner of the box was dented, and the top corner of the Bible pages were bent. I told them about it, so they can better protect future shipments. I wasn't expecting anything, but they refunded me $10. I'm happy with it so far. I'm waiting on my case, before I take it anywhere. It should be here tomorrow, or Saturday.
The one thing is that it is not kirkbride and it doesn’t say 5th edition and it doesn’t have the how many prints that they mention like the kirkbride on the church Bible publishing has and the 5th edition and the other ones 1-5th are going to be collection and obsolete sort of when they make the 6th edition zondervan taking over kirkbride who made it better than zondervan I think hopefully they will be able to do as kirkbride left off and stick with the black letter edition I never own or heard of Thompson chain growing up until I see it on RU-vid videos I own my grandparents old bibles neither one of them own a Thompson chain when I was a kid I really like them as a adult and I was disappointed with church Bible publishing not having handsize edition anymore they stopped making it in handsize Thompson chain from kirkbride but I do have regular and large print sizes
They did it to bridge the gap from Kirkbride to them. The ones coming from Zondervan are better quality. In fact they will have a premier collection one in goatskin leather.
Quick question. How do you know Zondervan is Smyth sewn? Kirkbride used to send care cards for the smyth sewing in their bibles. The back of the box doesn't say they are smyth sewn either. I laid the bible open halfway and looked into the seam, but honestly, i cant tell. The sewing on the kirkbrides used to stand out pretty good. May be Zondervan has a secret.😂 Not doubting, just wondering
They are definitely Smyth sewn. You usually see it at the beginning or the end of the text block. Look deep and you’ll see the stitching holes, if not the thread itself. Also they say “lay flat” which is only allowed by being Smyth sewn.
