Comments on: Review: ESV Personal Size Reference Bible, Black Genuine Leather

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:43:34 +0000

I took the plunge and purchased the Allan ESV Personal Size Reference Bible in black highland goatskin. It is truly a thing to behold. It’s one of those Bibles that will last a lifetime. Enjoy the link to some pictures of my new PSR:

http://kowalker.com/2010/01/20/100-pictures-of-my-allan-esv-personal-size-reference-bible/

By: Daniel

Daniel — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 01:32:33 +0000

I have had this Bible for about three months, and you are right, the cover loosens up over time.

By: Estel

Estel — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:24:44 +0000

Hi everyone,

Perhaps you can help me… I’m planning to buy an ESV study bible but I can’t decide whether to go for the Tru-Tone or genuine leather cover. Bother have sewn bindings. The Tru-Tone will certainly be more flexible but I’m concerned it wouldn’t wear as well as the leather…and instinctively you think leather’d be better, right? But I have read bad reviews of Crossway’s ‘genuine leather’ so I’m wary of it. Do you think the leather would ever soften up? And which covering would you recommend?

Thanks,

Estel

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:51:00 +0000

I just checked the ESV Blog and two of the TruTone Personal Size Reference Bibles are in fact, SEWN. Here it the link:

http://www.esv.org/blog/2008/05/summer.2008.esvs

Yes, yes, and yes!!!!!!!!!

It feels so good to know that in the future I can put cowhide, calfskin or the granddaddy of them all, highland goatskin on my Bible because of it being sewn and NOT glued.

By: Erik

Erik — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:15:05 +0000

Thanks for your insightful review. It caused me to take the plunge and buy this Bible.

I just purchased my new ESV Personal Size Reference Bible TruTone,Forest/Tan, Trail Design last night (10-25-08).

Your review mentioned that the soft cover PSRB’s are glued. I looked on the binding and it looked like it might have been sewn, however that wasn’t really what made me think this. What makes me think that it was sewn or have at least a “hybrid” glue bindingis the fact that there are threads every 64 pages following page 17 (Genesis 19 & 20).

Maybe I’m just wishful thinking, but I think this ESV Personal Size Reference Bible just might be at least a mixture of both sewn and glued. Let me know what you think about this. Keep posting such fantastic reviews!

Thanks,

- Erik Kowalker

By: tom

tom — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:48:34 +0000

I will shortly be ordering the Bible. Thank you all for your input, it has been useful. I am in the care of perhaps eight Bibles. I am not a collector but find inspiration in all interpretations. Gods Word Jesus Christ is with us every day in many ways. Listen my friends as I have listened to you. It is never the binding in the end. It is always the bond. May we find our hearts truly of Christ.
Tom

By: Rae

Rae — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 06:16:16 +0000

Steve: Thanks for the kind words! As far as the content for GC’s site, most of it (things like “Our Story” and other stuff from the “Who We Are” section) was written by Greg, the lead pastor. Good stuff, eh?

I do write the paragraph-long sermon summary blurbs, though.

By: Steve V.

Steve V. — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:39:14 +0000

Rae, you have an amazing website! Did you also write the content for Grace Central’s site?

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 12:39:01 +0000

I just might pick up one of these, but I have to admit that I’m very displeased with the binding of my current ESV thinline trutone. The cover has come off completely on the front side and I have to be careful that it doesn’t fall off altogether. I’ve only had the Bible a year and a half and read it nearly everyday and has normal use (I’m not super rough with it or anything).

By: B. Minich

B. Minich — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 03:32:37 +0000

I just got the TruTone Forest/Tan edition of the Personal Reference Bible, and it definitely is much closer to a WIN on binding. Very limp, and the cover looks better than it did on the website (which was good enough to make me want to buy it on the basis of the look). In fact, I bent the cover around the back of itself, and it doesn’t stick up as much as your picture. Plus, all you have to do to fix it is hold it down for a second, and its back to a closed position. I love it already.