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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