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walkitoutBear with me for a moment while I go completely off the deep end.
Once upon a time, I was a Jehovah's Witness. Actually, for quite a while. JW's do the whole congregate thing three times a week, and do other Bible-related things some additional number of days a week (which might be 0 and might be 4). JW's are a very text-oriented crew, so they buy bookbags and crap to cart their bible, songbook, watchtower, awake, tracts, OKM, current Bible Study publication, etc. around to these various theological/evangelical activities.
I have, in the 15 years since being a JW, unloaded most of the paperwork. I kept a Kingdom Interlinear that belonged to Grandma Mae and maybe one or two other things (and I had volumes of WT and A that went back forever). However, I keep some Bibles around the house, along with some other holy scripture because you never know when someone is going to quote something and you want to check it out. While the web is increasingly teh awesome for these purposes, there are some translations that are still non-trivial to get hold of. My personal faves are the current JPS Tanakh, the NRSV and Moffatt's New Testament. I have others. I like Ahmed Ali's Al-Qur'an and I'll stop now because even my eyes are glazing over and I can barely bring myself to mention all the commentaries I own.
Other people like to be able to compare multiple translations. There are 4x on a page Bibles. There are 3 Koran translations bundled for the kindle. There are websites that do quite magical things. So I figure, hey, I could get back a lot of shelf space _and_ have fully searchable editions if I just buy all the stuff I like for the kindle. I'd pay a premium over full price for the privilege (especially since it's hard to find small format Bibles, and they cost a bundle to make that thin paper and readable tiny font).
Alas, it is not yet possible to pack a kindle full of everything you could possibly want to bring to church with you (much less a Kingdom Hall). Maybe someday. . .
Once upon a time, I was a Jehovah's Witness. Actually, for quite a while. JW's do the whole congregate thing three times a week, and do other Bible-related things some additional number of days a week (which might be 0 and might be 4). JW's are a very text-oriented crew, so they buy bookbags and crap to cart their bible, songbook, watchtower, awake, tracts, OKM, current Bible Study publication, etc. around to these various theological/evangelical activities.
I have, in the 15 years since being a JW, unloaded most of the paperwork. I kept a Kingdom Interlinear that belonged to Grandma Mae and maybe one or two other things (and I had volumes of WT and A that went back forever). However, I keep some Bibles around the house, along with some other holy scripture because you never know when someone is going to quote something and you want to check it out. While the web is increasingly teh awesome for these purposes, there are some translations that are still non-trivial to get hold of. My personal faves are the current JPS Tanakh, the NRSV and Moffatt's New Testament. I have others. I like Ahmed Ali's Al-Qur'an and I'll stop now because even my eyes are glazing over and I can barely bring myself to mention all the commentaries I own.
Other people like to be able to compare multiple translations. There are 4x on a page Bibles. There are 3 Koran translations bundled for the kindle. There are websites that do quite magical things. So I figure, hey, I could get back a lot of shelf space _and_ have fully searchable editions if I just buy all the stuff I like for the kindle. I'd pay a premium over full price for the privilege (especially since it's hard to find small format Bibles, and they cost a bundle to make that thin paper and readable tiny font).
Alas, it is not yet possible to pack a kindle full of everything you could possibly want to bring to church with you (much less a Kingdom Hall). Maybe someday. . .