Monday, December 29, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 18, Par. 1–8 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 18, par. 1–8 has been added to:

Also, the material for par. 9 to the end of ch. 18 is included in the web material, with a grey background. It has not yet received final editing, but is otherwise usable.


The colour scheme has recently been revised to make the Pīnyīn more prominent and readable, since I believe that the Pīnyīn line is the most important line out of the three lines.


Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Monday, December 22, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for All of Ch. 17 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for all of ch. 17 has been added to:


The colour scheme has been revised to make the Pīnyīn more prominent and readable, since I believe that the Pīnyīn line is the most important line out of the three lines.


Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Wednesday, December 17, 2014

iPad and iPhone Info Pages Renamed and Revised

The iPad and iPhone information pages have been renamed and revised:

The main changes are:

  • Information has been added regarding EPUB files. When they are available, they are recommended over PDF files for use on the iPad, the iPhone, and the iPod touch.
  • Information has been added regarding using Apple’s AirDrop feature to share files.

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 17, Par. 9–16 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 17, par. 9–16 has been added to:

Also, the material for par. 17 to the end of ch. 17 is included in the web material, with a grey background. It has not yet received final editing, but is otherwise usable.


The colour scheme has been revised to make the Pīnyīn more prominent and readable, since I believe that the Pīnyīn line is the most important line out of the three lines.


Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 17, Par. 1–8 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 17, par. 1–8 has been added to:

Also, the material for par. 9 to the end of ch. 17 is included in the web material, with a grey background. It has not yet received final formatting, but is otherwise usable.


The colour scheme has been revised to make the Pīnyīn more prominent and readable, since I believe that the Pīnyīn line is the most important line out of the three lines.


Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Bible Teach Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material For All of Ch. 2 Added

Bible Teach book Pīnyīn web material for all of chapter 2 has been added to:

Besides the addition of new material, the above resources have also been re-architected as follows:

  • Footnotes and the full text of cited scriptures have been moved to be at the end of the same web page that the referring links are on, to the section entitled Jīngwén hé Jiǎozhù. This moves the footnotes out of the text flow of the main body, and it speeds up scripture lookups.
  • To match the style of official EPUB files and apps, the study questions have been moved to be before their paragraph(s) rather than after them.
  • Picture links now appear at the same places in the text flow that their corresponding pictures appear at in the offical EPUB files, websites, and apps.

Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • Since the Bible Teach book may get revised, the material in the above resources has been checked against the Chinese Bible Teach book material on the WOL. If you notice that some changes need to be made to the material in the above resources to bring it in line with revisions to the Bible Teach book, please email me to let me know.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resources contain picture links.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:

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Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for All of Ch. 16 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for all of ch. 16 has been added to:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Friday, November 21, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 16, Par. 10–17 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 16, par. 10–17 has been added to:

Also, the material for par. 18 to the end of ch. 16 is included in the web material, with a grey background. It has not yet received final formatting, but is otherwise usable.


Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Monday, November 17, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 16, Par. 1–9 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 16, par. 1–9 has been added to:

Also, the material for the rest of ch. 16 is included in the web material, with a grey background. It has not yet received final formatting, but is otherwise usable.


Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn EPUB Material For All of Lesson 7 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn EPUB material for all of Lesson 7 has been added to:

The download page of the above resource and the EPUB file’s introduction have information on the advantages of the EPUB format, which is native to the computer world, compared to the PDF format, which is rooted in the world of paper publications.


Also, they explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own, since Pīnyīn simply and straightforwardly represents Mandarin speech, which is more important for us to master in our spiritual work than Chinese characters are.—1 Cor. 14:8–11.


As discussed here, the default typeface for the above resource is now Gentium Basic. (In iBooks, the default font is listed as Original.)


Besides the addition of new material, the above resource has also been re-architected as follows:

  • The full text of footnotes has been moved to be at the end of the publication, in the section entitled Jīngwén hé Jiǎozhù. This moves the full text of the footnotes out of the text flow of the main body, following the practice of the official apps, EPUB files, and websites.
  • Picture links now appear at the same places in the text flow that their corresponding pictures appear at in the official apps, EPUB files, and websites.

Note that:

  • The material in the above resource has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • Since the Good News brochure may get revised, the material in the above resource has been checked against the Chinese Good News brochure material on the WOL. If you notice that some changes need to be made to the material in the above resource to bring it in line with revisions to the Good News brochure, please email me to let me know.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resource.
  • The above resource is mobile-friendly—the EPUB material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resource, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resource contains picture links.
  • The above resource contains a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:

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Good News Brochure Pīnyīn Web Material For All of Lesson 7 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn web material for all of Lesson 7 has been added to:

The introductions of the above resources explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own, since Pīnyīn simply and straightforwardly represents Mandarin speech, which is more important for us to master in our spiritual work than Chinese characters are.—1 Cor. 14:8–11.


As discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources is now Gentium Basic.


Besides the addition of new material, the above resources have also been re-architected as follows:

  • The full text of footnotes has been moved to be at the end of each web page, in the section entitled Jīngwén hé Jiǎozhù. This moves the full text of the footnotes out of the text flow of the main body, following the practice of the official apps, EPUB files, and websites.
  • Picture links now appear at the same places in the text flow that their corresponding pictures appear at in the official apps, EPUB files, and websites.

Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • Since the Good News brochure may get revised, the material in the above resources has been checked against the Chinese Good News brochure material on the WOL. If you notice that some changes need to be made to the material in the above resources to bring it in line with revisions to the Good News brochure, please email me to let me know.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resources contain picture links.
  • The above resources contain a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:

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Saturday, November 01, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for All of Ch. 15 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for all of chapter 15 has been added to:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Monday, October 27, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 15, Par. 1–19 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 15, par. 1–19 has been added to:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 15, Par. 1–10 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 15, par. 1–10 has been added to:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Friday, October 10, 2014

Bible Teach Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 2, Par. 17 Added

Bible Teach book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 2, paragraph 17 has been added to:

Besides the addition of new material, the above resources have also been re-architected as follows:

  • Footnotes and the full text of cited scriptures have been moved to be at the end of the same web page that the referring links are on, to the section entitled Jīngwén hé Jiǎozhù. This moves the footnotes out of the text flow of the main body, and it speeds up scripture lookups.
  • To match the style of official EPUB files, the study questions have been moved to be before their paragraph(s) rather than after them.
  • Picture links now appear at the same places in the text flow that their corresponding pictures appear at in the offical EPUB files, websites, and apps.

Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • Since the Bible Teach book may get revised, the material in the above resources has been checked against the Chinese Bible Teach book material on the WOL. If you notice that some changes need to be made to the material in the above resources to bring it in line with revisions to the Bible Teach book, please email me to let me know.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resources contain picture links.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:

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Friday, October 03, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 14 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 14 has been added to:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Thursday, September 11, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 13 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 13 has been added to:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Thursday, August 28, 2014

Good News Br. Pīnyīn-English EPUB Material Up to Lesson 4, Question 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English EPUB material up to Lesson 4, Question 3, including the full text of the cited scriptures, has been added to:

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resource has been changed to Gentium Basic. (In iBooks, the default font is listed as Original.)


As well, a setting has been changed so that when the EPUB file is viewed in iBooks in portrait orientation using Scrolling View, the right side of the material no longer gets cut off.


Note that:

  • The material in the above resource has been carefully translated, rendered, and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn-English of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resource.
  • The above resource is mobile-friendly—the EPUB material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resource, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • In apps such as iBooks, annotations (notes, highlighting, etc.) can be easily added to EPUB files by users.
  • The above resource contains picture links.
  • The above resource contains a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resource.

The download page and the EPUB file’s Introduction have information on the advantages of the EPUB format, and on why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


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Good News Br. Pīnyīn-English Web Material Up to Lesson 4, Question 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn-English web material up to Lesson 4, Question 3, including the full text of the cited scriptures, has been added to:

Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully translated, rendered, and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn-English of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The Recommended Browsers: sections in the above resources contain information about how to get the best viewing experience.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resources contain picture links.
  • The above resources contain a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
  • Besides being viewable online, the web pages can also be downloaded and used offline. Of course, they can be printed out from your web browser as well. (More details are included in their Offline Viewing and Printing sections.)
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


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Friday, August 22, 2014

Good News Br. Pīnyīn-English Web Resources Re-architected

The Good News br. Pīnyīn-English web resources have been re-architected so that each is made up of several files and folders, rather than one big web page. While the one-page format made some things easier, it also made other things harder. Breaking up each of these web resources into several files and folders will help with those things, but mainly, it will make page loading much quicker, especially as the contents of these web resources get filled out in the days ahead. To keep scripture lookups speedy, the text of the scriptures has been kept on the same web page as the referring links, in the section entitled References. Also, the text of footnotes has been moved out of the main body’s text flow and into the References section of the web page its referring links are on.


This re-architecting has required changing the web addresses of the Good News br. Pīnyīn-English web resources. Here are the updated links:

(The referring link pages at tiandi.info and 3lines.org have been updated as well.)


Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources has been changed to Gentium Basic, and adjustments have been made to letterspacing as required by the ruby text structure of the material.


Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn-English of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The Recommended Browsers: sections in the above resources contain information about how to get the best viewing experience.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resources contain picture links.
  • The above resources contain a link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org.
  • Besides being viewable online, the web pages can also be downloaded and used offline. Of course, they can be printed out from your web browser as well. (More details are included in their Offline Viewing and Printing sections.)
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


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jw.org Video Link Being Added to Good News Br. Pīnyīn & Pīnyīn-English Resources

A link to the video “Shàngdì Yǒu Míngzi ma?” (“Does God Have a Name?”) on jw.org has been added to many of the Good News brochure resources listed at tiandi.info/fg.


On the video’s web page, use the Choose Language drop-down list box to select what language you want to watch the video in.


The video link will gradually get added to all the Good News brochure Pīnyīn & Pīnyīn-English resources.


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Monday, August 11, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 12 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 12 has been added to:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Thursday, July 31, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material for Ch. 11 Added

Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material for ch. 11 has been added to:

The corresponding Trad.-Lau-Eng. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material has been discontinued because of having so few users, while still requiring about as much time and effort to produce as the corresponding Simp.-Pīnyīn-Eng. material. If it becomes evident at a future time that the number of those who would use the Trad.-Lau-Eng. 3-line-with-scriptures EPUB & web material has significantly increased, then production of that material may be resumed. Meanwhile, corresponding Trad.-Lau-Eng. letter/A4 size PDF files continue to be available on 3lines.org.


Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Sunday, July 20, 2014

“God’s Love” Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 2, Par. 7 Added

“God’s Love” book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 2, paragraph 7 has been added to:

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources has been changed to Gentium Basic.


Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:


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Thursday, July 10, 2014

New Resources: Close to Jehovah Bk. 3-line, Scriptures, EPUB & Web Material

The Close to Jehovah Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A, Scriptures, Revised Text PDFs) resource was mainly created to better serve mobile device users, who have become the growing majority of 3-line material users. However, because of the fixed page sizes and the fixed line endings that they inherited from the print world, any PDF files, even the A5 paper size ones, are a compromised solution for mobile device users.


Thus, the time and effort previously spent on producing the Close to Jehovah book A5 paper size 3-line PDF files will now be redirected to producing more natively mobile-friendly EPUB and web resources, now that they have become more practical to produce. Here are the first of these new resources [Update, 2013-07-13: The Cantonese Sidney Lau resources have been added to the list below as well.]:

Note that:

  • The full 3-line text of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—the EPUB & web material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • The above resources contain paragraph links, footnote links, etc. to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • Like PDF files, EPUB files can be downloaded for offline viewing.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, EPUB files can be annotated, meaning that notes, highlighting, etc. can be added.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size of the EPUB material can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

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Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn EPUB Material Up to Lesson 7, Question 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn EPUB material up to Lesson 7, Question 3 has been added to:

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resource has been changed to Gentium Basic. (In iBooks, the default font is listed as Original.)


As well, a setting has been changed so that when the EPUB file is viewed in iBooks in portrait orientation using Scrolling View, the right side of the material no longer gets cut off.


Note that:

  • The material in the above resource has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resource.
  • The above resource is mobile-friendly—the EPUB material is quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resource, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resource contains picture links.
  • In common EPUB-reading apps like iBooks, the text size can be adjusted to be quite large.
  • iBooks has an optional Night theme.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

The download page and the EPUB file’s Introduction have information on the advantages of the EPUB format, and on why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


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Monday, June 23, 2014

Good News Brochure Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Lesson 7, Question 3 Added

Good News brochure Pīnyīn web material up to Lesson 7, Question 3 has been added to:

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources has been changed to Gentium Basic.


Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resources contain picture links.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:

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Friday, June 20, 2014

Bible Teach Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 2, Par. 12 Added

Bible Teach book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 2, paragraph 12 has been added to:

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources has been changed to Gentium Basic.


Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The above resources contain picture links.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:

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Tuesday, June 17, 2014

“God’s Love” Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 2, Par. 3 Added

“God’s Love” book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 2, paragraph 3 has been added to:

Also, as discussed here, the default typeface for the above resources has been changed to Gentium Basic.


Note that:

  • The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
  • The linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
  • The above resources are mobile-friendly—they are quite legible and usable on everything from desktop/laptop PCs and Macs to iPads and other tablets to iPhones and other smartphones.
  • In the above resources, links are used extensively to make it quick and easy to get around in the material, drastically reducing the amount of manual scrolling needed.
  • The Offline Viewing sections of the above resources explain how to view them offline. Of course, in addition to being downloadable and viewable offline, the web pages of the above web resources can also be printed out from your web browser.
  • Turning mobile devices to landscape orientation causes the text in the above resources to become large-print text.
  • For your convenience, a short link is available for the above resources.

Also, the introductions explain why it’s good to use Pīnyīn as a writing system on its own.


The full Pīnyīn text of all the cited scriptures in the new material has been added to:


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Monday, June 16, 2014

Close to Jehovah Bk. XLP-iPhone-A5 Size LN-A 3-Line Material for Ch. 9 Posted

The Pīnyīn+Simp. Chinese 3-line XLP-iPhone-A5 size PDF file for Chapter 9 of the Close to Jehovah book is now available for download:

The Sidney Lau+Trad. Chinese 3-line XLP-iPhone-A5 size PDF file for Chapter 9 will be available shortly. [Update, 2014-06-19: The Sidney Lau+Trad. Chinese file for Chapter 9 is now available for download as well.]


The files have LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) support, and they contain the linked full text of cited scriptures. Pīnyīn+Simp. Chinese and Sidney Lau+Trad. Chinese versions of the files are available.


To help explain how the XLP-iPhone-A5 files may work well on a variety of mobile devices, the following paragraphs are included on the Close to Jehovah Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A, Scriptures, Revised Text PDFs) page:

While the regular files use letter size as the paper size, these files named with “XLP-iPhone-A5” use A5 as the paper size, and are especially suited for use on devices such as the iPhone, the iPod touch, and other devices with similarly sized screens, such as Android phones. (See the 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch page for instructions on how to use these files on an iPhone or an iPod touch.)

The XLP-iPhone-A5 files should also be a good fit on 6" (15.2 cm) screen Kindles and other similarly sized devices, as well as on tablets with 7" (17.8 cm) screens, as long as these devices have PDF support. (Note that landscape orientation may work best, as explained on the 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch page.) Some may prefer to use these files on larger mobile devices like the Kindle DX or the iPad as well. (See the 3-Line Material on the iPad page for instructions on how to use these files on an iPad.)

Also, instructions are included re how to download the files on an iPad, an iPhone, or an iPod touch using GoodReader 4.


The relevant folders at the 3lines.org site contain an HTML file (web page) with a link to the Close to Jehovah Book (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A, Scriptures, Revised Text PDFs) page.


Related links:


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