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Title: KJV Pitt Minion Reference Edition, R183 Black French Morocco Leather by Bible ISBN: 0521007402 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Bibles) Pub. Date: 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33
Rating: 4
Summary: Cambridge quality, Cambridge price........
Comment: I am very pleased with my new Pitt Minion Bible. It is ideal size for travel and durable to boot. I have the Goatskin cover so I expect many years of use out of it.
I always "cringe" when I deliberate on buying a Cambridge Bible because of the price, but I do want exceptional quality and this is their specialty. I always search Addall.com or Bestbookbuys.com for the best price.
As for the small print, I am fine with it since I don't have to wear eyeglasses to read (yet!).
Rating: 5
Summary: The perfect portable Bible? As close as they come.
Comment: My new French Morocco-bound Cambridge Pitt Minion is fast becoming my constant companion; not only is it ideal for travel, but it is so legible and pleasant to handle that it has become my standard for daily reading at home. Mind you, I am 62 years old and require reading glasses in any case, but this Bible is clearer and sharper than any of its several "portable" predecessors. The old calfskin Cambridge Cameo with Apocrypha is still preferable for study because more complete, a bit easier to read, and as well bound; and I do use the Logos CD for Greek, Hebrew and comparing translations, but my Pitt Minion is a joy to carry, hold, and read. Like the KJV it contains, it is a classic. It could only be improved by including the so-called "Apocrypha" in the same volume. This was integral to the Holy Scriptures as revered in the early Church, used by all Christians for 1,500 years, and by all Catholic and Orthodox Christians to the present day. But I'm dreaming. The Anglo-American Bible business is run by Protestants, so I'm lucky to have a well-bound, almost complete, classic translation of the Bible at all. And doubly blessed that the same great University on the Cam have now republished the best portable Bible available in English. Bravo!
Rating: 4
Summary: just short of a successful design
Comment: I don't want to rain on the parade regarding these new Cambridge Pitt Minion KJV Bible releases, because they are well made and most everything the professional amazon review says they are, yet.....too small print is just simply too small print. You open these slim little editions and the first impression is the dimensions of the edition shouldn't really call for that small a print. It just has to be said. I would also say that the bonded leather editions really look almost inferiour to much, much less expensive similar-sized editions from other publishers; and the French Morocco and Goatskin editions can look very different individually (I had the opportunuty to look through several of these editions). Overall, the feel you get about these editions, the first and enduring impression, is that they are not really that well-designed a Bible for their really kind of shockingly high price tag. The small print to me is their biggest downfall. (I should say too that I don't use reading glasses and have no problem with small text, but there is a point when text passes over into that area of just too small to be comfortable and the text of these editions are in that category. With a double-columned page like a Bible as well it makes for just too uncomfortable an experience for the price tag. Though, for somebody interested in a good leather Cambridge bible their other editions (that are actually very close in dimensions to these Pitt Minion editions, though with larger print) can be acquired for the same price or less as these editions. My advice is to look all their editions over at the Cambridge Bible site on the net and then come back to amazon and order the edition you want for much less...
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Title: KJV Concord Wide Margin (Black Calfskin Leather) by Bible ISBN: 0521509181 Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr (Bibles) Pub. Date: 1999 List Price(USD): $129.99 |
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