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Over the past three and a half years Crossway has been pleased to meet its readers on the ever-growing Kindle platform with the ESV Bible (free), the ESV Study Bible, and now the ESV Student Study Bible. The Kindle hardware and software continues to improve, which has pushed us to re-think how to present our feature-rich Bibles in the simplest and most straightforward way possible. Note: some advanced features will only work on the Kindle 2 or Kindle 3 hardware.

Recent updates and changes:

• All maps and illustrations are now in color (if using the Kindle app on a color-enabled device).
• We have provided a list of charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations in the table of contents to facilitate access to our content.
• We have added cross-reference entries.
• We have added our concordance with direct access to each entry.

How to update to the latest ESV for Kindle?

If you have already downloaded a copy of the ESV from Crossway for Kindle, you will need to contact Amazon’s customer service to request an update. Or, if Amazon has already contacted you by e-mail with information on the new update, follow their instructions. While there are tremendous benefits to updating, one downside is that your notes and highlights will be erased. Whenever an eBook is updated by the publisher on the Kindle platform, notes and highlights are reset and are un-retrievable.

Accessing Study Notes and Footnotes:

All study notes and footnotes in the ESV Bible, Kindle Edition, are represented as links. Use your Kindle’s 5-Way Controller to select and activate a link, and use the BACK button to return to the Bible text.

• The dagger icon (†) links to a study note about one particular verse.
• The double dagger icon (‡) links to a study note about a group of verses.
• A number inside brackets ([1]) links to a footnote.
• A superscript letter (a) links to a cross-reference list.

Direct Access to Any Concordance Entry:

• Press the MENU button.
• Select Index.
• Type c followed by .. (two periods), then the desired concordance entry. (example: c..atonement)
• Press Enter (↲).

Direct Access to Any Verse:

You can use Kindle’s index feature to navigate directly to any verse you choose. This feature is not available on the Kindle 1 or any Kindle applications.

To gain direct access to any verse in the ESV Bible:

• Press the MENU button.
• Select Index.
• Type the two- or three-character abbreviation for the desired book, followed by a space. Use the exact book abbreviations below.
• Type the chapter number, followed by a space, and the verse number. For the five books that have only one chapter (Obadiah, Philemon, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude), leave off the chapter number.
• Press Enter (↲).

To navigate to the beginning of any chapter, leave off the verse number. To access the first chapter of any book, you need to type only the abbreviation.

Examples:

1. To go to Matthew 28:19, press MENU, select Index, type mt 28 19, and press Enter.
2. For 2 John 8, press MENU, select Index, type 2jn 8, and press Enter.
3. To go to the book of Luke, press MENU, select Index, type lk, and press Enter.

Abbreviations for Direct Access: