Bible Review - Compact! Large Print! Zippppppper!

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to the Kingdom Bibles. I know it's been a while. This is actually one of the first reviews I've done in almost two months, and there's a couple of reasons for it. First off, this is a very expensive hobby, guys. I don't know if you know that, but buying Bibles, doing reviews on YouTube. Unless you're getting them sent to you, it can get pretty pricey. I'm obviously a very small creator. I don't have the support. I've actually reached out to a couple. They've basically told me no. So if you're not getting these sent to you, it can get pretty pricey. So that's one reason, but the other, the main reason is that for my job, uniquely enough, I actually sell Bibles for a living. One of the parts of my job is that I go on the road for like a month at a time, a couple times a year. So I just got back from being on the road for a month. So, you know, it kind of works out that... One, I didn't really have anything new to review. And second is that, well, I was on the road, and it's really hard to do reviews when you're driving so much and working. So, what's really unique, though, is that it was almost perfect timing here, because I discovered this Bible probably about two weeks ago or something, but I know it just got released. Like, the store, where I purchased this from, we didn't get it until... I think last week, like the third or something. Like, I, it was, it was, this is, this is a new right off the press book, uh, Bible, excuse me, and, um, I'm really excited for it, and I saw it and I had to buy it because I am a sucker. I absolutely love Bibles with zippers. In fact, uh, let me just tell you, I got a couple of them. Uh, I got my, uh, my classic reference from, from, um, TBS here, and we're going to go over these in a bit when I do some comparisons. This is, this has been, like, kind of my go-to travel Bible that I use. And then I also got this, uh, Christian art publisher one. This is, this is like this, apparently the smallest full Bible you can buy on Amazon. I don't know if that's true or not. I got this at my store too. Really cool, uh, very, it's a very small Bible, but I love, I love the zippers. I love the Bibles that have the cases with the zippers on it, just because I think it just, it puts everything into one. You don't need to worry about getting a separate case for it. It's just a really nice layout. when it's done properly. I'm going to talk on that in a bit here, but here it is. This is the, it's brand new. They have two versions of it. They have the large print compact Bible from Thomas Nelson in the KJV. They have this in the zipper, which I'm doing here, as well as just without a zipper, a regular Bible cover. So this is the black leather soft with zipper, compact. Large Print Bible, protective zipper enclosure, easy to read 10 point font, words of Christ in red, elegant, gilded... edges as well, and we'll just look at some of the features in the back here, too, kind of, I just, I went over it, but there is a presentation page, there's reading plans, and the 10-point font is kind of like, this is kind of the selling point of this Bible, because there is a lot of these zipper Bibles. Thomas Nelson makes a few of them, but this, they're always small print, and I'll show that in the ones I got here, this is really unique because it's a 10-point font, and waiting until you see this, it's, it's really nice, I mean, that's kind of a little. example here, but we'll get into it. And here's the ISBN right there if you want to take a pause and have a look. It says it retails for $39.99. I paid more because I'm in Canada, but I still got this around the $50 price point. So it's not leather, but it's the leather soft. And we'll dive into it now and just keep that in mind that even though this is not leather, the cover is awesome. because Thomas Nelson does such a great job with the Leather Soft covers, in my opinion. So. The box, we will throw that over there, not throw it, we're just going to put it there. So it's, again, the leather soft cover, if you just grab this out of the box and felt it, you'd think it's leather. It's so, I love their leather soft. This is such a nice cover. It's got some grain in it. Holy Bible printed on the front, as well as you've got these embossed kind of, where the hubs would be, but it's not, it's flat, printed in with the gold. Holy Bible, King James Version, and the Thomas Nelson. logo there as well. And then the ISBN, which is unique, because usually what they do is they print the ISPN in gold. They didn't. The ISBN is there, but it's not printed in gold. I don't know if they didn't meant to do that or not, but hey, I know a lot of people don't like the gold printing. I don't mind, but interesting. I just found that interesting, that everything else is in gold, but the ISPN is not. Perimeter stitched, but this is the zipper Bible. Really nice zipper. you know, it's really smooth to open and close. What I really like, though, and I'll open it up here, is that you can kind of tuck it in here. You tuck the zipper in, and it really allows you to open this up. Now, I wouldn't, you know, I mean, I wouldn't say it's a lay flat, but, I mean, you know, I'm in Leviticus there. Let me see if I'm in. Well, I mean, you work it in, it might. That's Exodus. It's definitely not something you would lay flat, but you can kind of get the general idea that this is a compact Bible meant for holding, for being on the go. Just a really, we'll get into it, though. This is just a really nice Bible. I'm so excited about it because of this zipper. But let's start off here at the front, and I'll show you, it's got the paste down liner. I'm going to get into a few things. I'm concerned about with it, but this is paste down. Because of the price point, this is not a premium Bible, it's not even that kind of synthetic liner, it's the paste down, the paper paste down with the presentation page. I'm not sure if you guys can see, but the corner work, like, the, you know, the pasting into the zipper cover is pretty good on this, but. It's, you can see almost where it's probably, you know, with heavy use, this is going to come off, you know. That being said, again, this Bible is not a premium Bible, which is going to be something I want to mention in a bit here, but I almost expect this with heavy use in five years or so, a couple of years, this will start ripping. That's just the nature of the beast when it comes to these mass-produced Bibles. But we got the title page. Here is the publisher's title page as well. Holy Bible. Actually, see, that almost like lays flat. That's pretty good. Again, you work this in more, and I think that's why when you kind of tuck in the zipper here at the bottom, it kind of helps it stay open a little bit more. If you had the zipper out, it would flop over pretty. pretty easily. But anyways, here's the particulars, which is interesting to note, it's printed in India, but like I said, this is the 2026. This is a brand new Bible, folks. But, yeah, printed in India, for those that... care about things like that. I really don't these days, but yeah, this is, I think Thomas Nelson uses China, India, and South Korea, if I'm not mistaken, for these Bible. But you can see here, really nice layout, very simple. There's, there's not a lot of features. This is, I forgot to mention that this is not a reference Bible. This is just a straight text Bible verse by verse. So the features are very limited. I think the whole purpose of this Bible is just to have it on the go. book, Bible, excuse me, Bible book abbreviations, epistle dedicatory, which is cool to have it in there, Old Testament, New Testament. So you got your book abbreviations there, the Epistle Dedicatory, and then you get right into, sorry, just the Old Testament title page, and then Genesis, and there is, look at it, it's landing. laying flat pretty good, right? That's not bad at all, actually. I thought it was going to have more trouble. I've used this all weekend since I got it. So maybe that helps that I've been using it a lot. But here it is, two column, verse by verse, what I really love about this, because I'm just going to just go over here a little bit. further into the Bible. What I love about this is that even though this is not a reference Bible, what you see is that paragraphs have headings. So it kind of, it's not necessarily a reference, but it does kind of keep you, you know, in tune to what's going on within the pages that you're reading. So, again, while there's no references, the fact that there's the paragraph headings, I think, is a big, big bonus. But yeah, just a lovely layout, man. That is a big font. You guys, that is a 10-point font. I don't have the greatest eyesight in the world, but that is easy to read. I love it. This is kind of the curse, not the curse, that's the wrong word, the negative, let's say, of having these small, compact zipper bibles is, you know, just to give you an example here, I'm going to show you, this is the Christian Art Publishers Bible. And I mean, look, look at the difference. This is, this is a zipper Bible, but look at that, look at that font. I mean, you, you can't, that's like three times the size. It's real, this is really hard to read. Now, you can read it if you have it up close, you know, but it's, it's really, really tough. And just to kind of compare here. I'll show you this is basically the Cambridge Concord, but they call it the TBS classic reference Bible with zipper, and this has got the indexes, index tabs too, but you can see the font, again, it's small, it's very small, and the center column references here, you can barely even make them out. It's so small. So I've always said that I'd love a compact zipper Bible. that, like, you could actually read, and this is it. This is why when I saw this, I was like, this is brilliant, absolutely fantastic stuff. But, yeah, so just moving along, I'm just going to show you, this is, again, you know, a no frills, verse by verse, classic King James, you get, there's no special settings or anything, because here you get into Job, all the poetry, get into Psalms, and it's just, you know. Just your typical verse by verse, no special settings or anything. Just no frills straight to the point. But it's got all of the chapter headers and the, sorry, the paragraph headers and just kind of like little introductions, but nothing reference -wise, which is, you know, again, I just, I love this layout. It's just, it's beautiful. It's perfect. It's not, it's not too much going on. If you just want a straight, compact Bible with text, easy to read. This is brilliant stuff. Paper, it's on the thin side. Let's say, I'm guessing a 30 GSM. There is some show-through when you're reading, and again, this is because of the price point. This is not a premium Bible, but you do see some show-through. It's not bad, but you do notice it just because that's just, I guess, it's, even though it's a little thicker, like, you know, it's thicker than this. it's still not a very thick Bible, which is interesting though, side note, I'm rambling here, guys. The one that's not zippered is thicker than the zipper one. Fun fact, I compared them at the store when I was going to buy this, and I was looking at the other one. The other one's, the other one's a little thicker than this. This is a really good size. So if it matters to, if you're in the market for something that doesn't have the zipper. But yeah, like I said, it's a red letter. Let's... get to the start here of Matthew and the New Testament. Pages are easy to turn to. New Testament title page, Matthew, and then... Red Letter. I did notice some difference, again, I'm guessing because this is a mass-produced Bible. Some of the red, like, this is a really dark red here, you know, we're in Matthew 18 and 19, very dark, but there's some other places where it's a little lighter. Just different, this is something that I've watched on other reviews. People are really finicky about Red Letter. and they want it either, you know, completely the same color, or they don't want it at all. It doesn't bother me. I know some of it's almost pinkish. I know that would affect some people's reading. For me, it doesn't really bother me, but just something to note that all the red is not the same. There's definitely differences within it. But, just so you guys see, and it goes red all the way through to Revelation as well. Like I said, this is a pretty no -frills... Bible, nothing to, for study helps. There is a couple of reading plans, the 30 days of getting to know God, and then you have the 30 days of getting to know Jesus reading plans from Thomas Nelson. Note regarding the type, and then there's no maps in this. It's just a write note regarding the type, and then you've got your paste down at the back, which is this card stock paste down as well. Yeah, so, The pros and cons. The pros is that this is the perfect size. For a compact Bible, that's, like, the font is amazing. The readability of this is great. It's wonderful. I love it. It's what you're going to pay for. So, again, $39.99 in the States, I'm sure you're going to get it cheaper in America. In Canada, $50 is a no-brainer for what you're getting. The leather soft is, is amazing. Like, Here's, okay, so here's my thing. This is, this is kind of my options, right, when it comes to my zipper Bibles, let's say. Like, this is, you know, the Christian art publisher one is decent. It's, you know, it's really, it's like, you know, it's like, you know, it's like a wallet size. Like, it's, it's really small, very, very compact, but the tradeoff is that that is a tiny font, like really, really small. The next thing, this is the TBS Classic Reference Bible. Love the cover. I'm not a huge fan of putting these ribbon markers inside of a zipper. I had to cut them because I kept getting the zipper caught in it. This is a great Bible, too. I think that the reference suite, the Concord reference system in this, if you got really good eyesight, you could pick this out, but the cover, the leather on this, the Mariva calf skin, I think it is, and the liner in here, I would have, I would love to see. this type of cover with that type of liner in this. That being said, this is great. This is wonderful. The leather soft is great. The price point, you're not paying out the roof for this. This is a fantastic package, but it's almost like you want to see. what they could do to this if they put a little premium touch to it. Now, I know the premier collection, this is probably low priority for them to put anything like this in a premier collection, but what, that would be really cool. That would be awesome if they kind of gave this a little TLC, you know, do a leather cover for it, get rid of the paste down, like, sorry, the paper paste down, put a liner paste down in there, the synthetic one. Just because I'm going to use this a lot, and I just, I know that this up here is just, it's going to go. With heavy, heavy use, that's going to go. But other than that, like I'm telling you guys, when it comes to, like, a zippered Bible, this is the best. Out of the three, this is my favorite, bar none. You know, this stuff might rub off with heavy use, but the inside, the packaging, the inside the text, everything, love it. A couple of measurements here before I get out here. Like I said, this is a compact, so you are under, you are under 5 inches for that. You got 5 by 7. So a little under 5, and even though this is a little thick, it's about an inch and a half thick, it fits perfectly in your hand. This is the perfect zippered Bible for me. I would love to see if they could... put a little bit of premium touch to it, a little bit more, you know, effort into the leather and maybe the paste down liner, the put a synthetic liner in there or something, but overall, guys, you know, I mean, this is great, too. I love this. I mentioned that before, but you just, it kind of, like, just pushes in a little bit more, just like that, and then you can open this up like this, but this font, this is, this is the moneymaker, guys, this is, it's so easy to read that they do a really, like Thomas Nelson, they've got this, this, you know, layout perfect. Just such a really nice reading experience. You can hold this, you can travel with it. It's loose where you could definitely put like some, you know, like a highlighter or a Pygma Micron or something in there. I haven't written in this yet. I wouldn't, I wouldn't say this is going to... take a very big pigment micron, but zero five might be pretty good. You might be able to get by with that. But anyways, that's it, guys. This is, again... the King James Version Compact, large print Bible with zipper from Thomas Nelson. I hope you guys have a fantastic night. Hope you enjoy the video. Let me know. Are you a fan of Zipper Bibles? Do you have any of these? Do you have the TBS? Do you have the Christian Art publisher? I know Skyler makes one too, but what do you guys think of Zipper Bibles? I would love to hear your comments. Have a good one.

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