Bible Teach Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 1, Par. 19 Added

Bible Teach book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 1, paragraph 19 has been added to:

• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bh)

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• 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 linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• 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:

• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web, Night Theme)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bi)

Bible Teach Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 1, Par. 17 Added

Bible Teach book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 1, paragraph 17 has been added to:

• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bh)

A few stylistic elements have been tweaked as well.

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• 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 linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• 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:

• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web, Night Theme)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bi)

Bible Teach Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 1, Par. 13 Added

Bible Teach book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 1, paragraph 13 has been added to:

• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bh)

Additional internal links have been added as well, to make getting around in the material even more convenient.

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• 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 linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• 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:

• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web, Night Theme)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bi)

Bible Teach Bk. Pīnyīn Web Material Up to Ch. 1, Par. 10 Added

Bible Teach book Pīnyīn web material covering up to chapter 1, paragraph 10 has been added to:

• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bh)

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• 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 linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• 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:

• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• NWT Bible (Pīnyīn, Web, Night Theme)
   (proofread, incomplete, unofficial,
   mobile-friendly, chapter-level links,
   black background, gray text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bi)

New Resources: Bible Teach Bk. (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures) Pages

There have been official Pīnyīn PDFs for the Bible Teach book on jw.org, and unofficial letter/A4 size 3-line PDFs for it on 3lines.org, for a while now. Undoubtedly, many have benefitted greatly from these PDF files. However, the PDF format is rooted in the print world, with its fixed page sizes and line endings. As mobile devices became more and more common, it was found that the letter/A4 page size originally used for the 3-line PDFs made them quite hard to use on smaller mobile devices such as the iPhone, and it also made for smaller-than-intended text even on larger tablets like the iPad.

How common are mobile devices getting to be? One highly relevant indication is that visits to 3lines.org from mobile devices now outnumber visits to that site from desktops/laptops, and the way the trend is going, soon visits to 3lines.org from tablets alone will outnumber visits to that site from desktops/laptops:

Eventually, some 3-line PDFs that used A5 as their page size began to be produced, which usually worked satisfactorily on mobile devices. However, producing A5 versions of 3-line PDFs requires extra work from already-busy 3-line producers, so A5 versions have been produced for only some 3-line PDFs, and it seems that no A5 size 3-line PDFs have ever been made for the Bible Teach book. Even when they are available, A5 size 3-line PDFs present extra complexity to users who need to compare them to the letter/A4 PDFs and then choose which to use in their situation.

As well, the PDF format is not the native format of the web browser you would use to go to the download pages of the PDF files. Thus, while PDF files can be downloaded, and often even viewed, with a web browser, they still represent some added complexity for people looking for Chinese field resources on the web.

Another consideration is that while the PDF format allows for the use of links, PDF producers generally hardly ever put them in PDFs, and many users do not seem to expect or use them. However, links can provide great benefits when they are used, as they are in web and EPUB material, to quickly and easily get around in the material, look up cited scriptures, etc.

Now, some new unofficial resources have become available that make it quicker and easier than ever to use mobile devices, etc. to view carefully proofread Pīnyīn text for the Chinese Bible Teach book:

• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• Bible Teach Bk.
   (Pīnyīn, Web, Scriptures, Night Theme)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   black background, grey text,
   device to landscape ▶ large print)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/bh)

Note that:

• The material in the above resources has been carefully rendered and proofread.
• 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 linked full text in Pīnyīn of all the cited scriptures is included in the above resources.
• 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.

Eventually, Pīnyīn-English web and Pīnyīn and Pīnyīn-English EPUB versions of the above resources should appear as well.

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

3-line XLP-iPhone-A5 size files for Chapter 3 of the Close to Jehovah book are now available for download:

• Close to Jehovah Book
   (3-Line, XLP-iPhone-A5, LN-A, Scriptures,
   Revised Text PDFs)
   (linked scriptures)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/cl)

The files have LN-A (LinkNav and annotation (notes & highlighting)) support and the linked full text of cited scriptures. Pinyin+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 iPhone or an iPod touch using GoodReader for iPhone, and how to download the files on an iPad using GoodReader for iPad.

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:

• 3-Line Material on the iPhone and the iPod touch


• 3-Line Material on the iPad


• Printing Extra Large Print 3-Line Material


• PDF Link Navigation


• PDF Annotation (Notes & Highlighting)

New Resource: Good News Brochure (Pīnyīn, Scriptures EPUB) Page

The content of the Good News brochure Pīnyīn web pages, including the linked full text of all cited scriptures, is now available in EPUB format at this download page:

• Good News Brochure
   (Pīnyīn, Scriptures EPUB)
   (proofread, mobile-friendly,
   supports offline use & annotation)
• (Short link: tiandi.info/fg)

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.

For now, the Good News brochure EPUB file, like the Good News brochure Pīnyīn web pages, contains material covering up to the end of Lesson 5. More material will gradually be added as time allows.