Books

More Resources for Online Books

Phil Gons has some excellent information regarding a newly released site: OpenLibrary.org. It is an offshoot of the already mentioned Internet Archive. In addition to providing a whole host of open-domain books in full text (just over 1 million at time of writing), they have the ambitious goal of dedicating a page for every book [...]

Download Internet Explorer 8 (Please!)

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Now don’t get me wrong, I still think everyone should be using Firefox as their default web-browser. But I’m a realist, and sometimes you just need Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE). And if you’re going to use Microsoft, then you should really definitely immediately download IE8, released today at noon.
There are a whole [...]

eBook of the Greek New Testament (UBS4) for the Kindle, iPod, or iPhone

Update: The links to the ebook in question have been (preemptively) removed pending licensing discussions. See here. Perhaps I will have time in the future to provide a Tischendorf version, which is in the open domain.

Having Googled long and hard for a free, accented, open-source, Unicode eBook of the Greek New Testament, and to no [...]

Göttingen Septuagint in Logos Pre-Pub

From the Logos blog:
The Göttingen Septuagint (a.k.a. Septuaginta: Vetus Testamentum Graecum. Auctoritate Academiae Scientiarum Gottingensis Editum) is the most important edition of the Greek translation of the Old Testament ever published. At present it spans 24 print volumes and nearly 7,000 pages, setting the bar high for text-critical studies.
For optimal use in Logos Bible Software, [...]

New Reformed Journal: Ecclesia Reformada

It is my privilege to announce a new journal: Ecclesia Reformada. Anybody with an interest in cutting-edge Reformed scholarship and its relvance to pastoral ministry should consider a subscription. From their site:
Ecclesia Reformanda is a new journal for pastors, theological students, and scholars, that seeks to serve the Church in its ongoing reformation according to [...]

Amazed by Google Books

Digitalization is the way of the future, and with the recent deal between authors and Google books, that future may in fact be bright for all parties.
In the course of my dissertation work I often have to track down primary sources, and when those sources are particularly rare it becomes difficult. Or it used to [...]

Ubiquity Command for the Westminster Library

If you frequently search the Westminster Library then you may be interested in this post. I have created a command for Firefox’s Ubiquity that allows you to search the Westminster Library Catalog without ever leaving your web page. You can even highlight text on any web page and automatically search the library catalog using that [...]

Add the Westminster Seminary Library to your Browser Search Bar

As a follow-up to my Westminster Bookstore Search Plugin I have created a similar plugin for the Westminster Seminary Library, which works in both Firefox and IE7. So now you can search Westminster Seminary’s library right from your browser, and since the site natively supports Zotero, this makes research all that much easier.
The same instructions [...]

Add the Westminster Bookstore to your Firefox Search Bar

Who needs Google when you’ve got the Westminster Bookstore, right? Well now you can add that famed repository of Reformed Christian resources right into your Browser search bar.
How? Easy. If you are viewing this page (and my guess is you are), just click on the search engine toolbar in your browser and select “Add [...]

Ubiquity Command for the Westminster Bookstore

If you love the Westminster Bookstore, then you’re going to want to read this post. I have created a command for Firefox’s Ubiquity that allows you to search the Westminster Bookstore without ever leaving your web page. You can even highlight text on any web page and automatically search WTS Books using that text.
If you [...]