{"id":68,"date":"2009-03-05T08:28:24","date_gmt":"2009-03-05T12:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/?p=68"},"modified":"2016-02-06T10:35:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-06T14:35:32","slug":"how-to-get-the-esv-for-free-on-your-iphone-for-a-limited-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/2009\/03\/how-to-get-the-esv-for-free-on-your-iphone-for-a-limited-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Get the ESV for Free on Your iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Update April 2010<\/strong>: The ESV is no longer available for free on Kindle. Crossway has, however, made available a <a href=\"http:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/esv-bible\/id361797273\">free ESV iPhone app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Want a free ESV Bible on your iPhone or iPod Touch? An unusual confluence of events makes it possible (unless Crossway starts charging for the Kindle ESV again):<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Install the Kindle app from the App Store on your iPhone.<\/li>\n<li>Enter your Amazon account info into the Kindle app.<\/li>\n<li>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Holy-Bible-English-Standard-Version\/dp\/B001EOCFU4\/\">Kindle ESV page<\/a> on Amazon.com.<\/li>\n<li>Click the \u201cBuy now with 1-Click\u201d button (or sign in if necessary).<\/li>\n<li>Choose your iPhone from the dropdown menu and \u201cContinue.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Restart the Kindle app on your iPhone and wait for the ESV to download. It took my iPhone about two minutes over wi-fi.<\/li>\n<li>Start reading.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-03-esv-kindle-home.jpg\" alt=\"The ESV shows up in the list of available books.\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/a.openbible.info\/blog\/2009-03-esv-kindle-john.jpg\" alt=\"Browsing John shows the ESV text and navigation elements.\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since neither the Kindle app nor the Kindle iPhone is designed for reading the Bible, navigation can be frustrating. On the other hand, you now have a complete local copy of the ESV Bible on your iPhone without having to pay either for the ESV or for the Kindle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update April 2010: The ESV is no longer available for free on Kindle. Crossway has, however, made available a free ESV iPhone app. Want a free ESV Bible on your iPhone or iPod Touch? An unusual confluence of events makes it possible (unless Crossway starts charging for the Kindle ESV again): Install the Kindle app [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1170,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/1170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openbible.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}