Quickverse Expanded 7.0

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Summary: QuickVerse--not so Quick
Review: QuickVerse Expanded 7.0 is an excellent resource for the serious Bible student. It is complete with eight Bible versions, including the NIV and New King James, which are missing from most software packages. It's reference material is superb and includes all the major study bible notes, from Adam Clarke, Matthew Henry, Cambridge Annotated, Holman, Easton and many more. Strong's Concordance interface is very responsive and easy to use. The Greek and Hebrew dictionaries are only a click away, allowing the reader to look at the original Greek or Hebrew text for any passage. The software also includes numerous Bible studies, atlases, pictures, and historical church literature. Parsons Church Group also painstakingly included virtually every major work from the early church fathers, including the Early Creeds, Doctrinal Works, the Westminister Confession, and Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Confessions of St Augustine and many, many more. I would rate this software package among the finest I have used, except that it resides on four CDs and requires constant swapping between the disks to navigate through the software. For example, after loading the program, two disk swaps are required just to get to a specific verse in a Bible of choice. Then additional swaps are required to visit the different commentaries about a specific verse. More advanced code writers should have been able to write the program to retain the users most recent data in memory, and eliminate most of the disk swaps. Despite the drudgery of frequent disk swaps, QuickVerse Expanded 7.0 is an overall excellent program for the serious student of the Bible.

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Summary: QuickVerse--not so Quick
Review: QuickVerse Expanded 7.0 is an excellent resource for the serious Bible student. It is complete with eight Bible versions, including the NIV and New King James, which are missing from most software packages. It's reference material is superb and includes all the major study bible notes, from Adam Clarke, Matthew Henry, Cambridge Annotated, Holman, Easton and many more. Strong's Concordance interface is very responsive and easy to use. The Greek and Hebrew dictionaries are only a click away, allowing the reader to look at the original Greek or Hebrew text for any passage. The software also includes numerous Bible studies, atlases, pictures, and historical church literature. Parsons Church Group also painstakingly included virtually every major work from the early church fathers, including the Early Creeds, Doctrinal Works, the Westminister Confession, and Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Confessions of St Augustine and many, many more. I would rate this software package among the finest I have used, except that it resides on four CDs and requires constant swapping between the disks to navigate through the software. For example, after loading the program, two disk swaps are required just to get to a specific verse in a Bible of choice. Then additional swaps are required to visit the different commentaries about a specific verse. More advanced code writers should have been able to write the program to retain the users most recent data in memory, and eliminate most of the disk swaps. Despite the drudgery of frequent disk swaps, QuickVerse Expanded 7.0 is an overall excellent program for the serious student of the Bible.

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Summary: QV7: Excellent Product, but Phone Support is always Busy
Review: The last reviewer mentioned a lot of CD swapping. This is untrue if you load all the CD's locally to your hard drive just by selecting an option off your file menu. It's simple to do and there are directions in the help menu if you have any trouble. The only downer is it takes up hard disk space, but not too much as long as it doesn't have a lot of graphics since usually it's only text that loads into a database. Overall, I have been happy with this product, but I have had an unfortunate experience trying to subscribe to their online libraries and ordering a the Scofield NIV unlock key. Their online ordering through the software does not work for me and their 1-800 # is always busy. I would give this a five star rating, if it weren't for those two things. Otherwise being able to compare translations, open commentaries and references to the exact verse your reading with a click of a button is a priceless time saver.

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Summary: QV7: Excellent Product, but Phone Support is always Busy
Review: The last reviewer mentioned a lot of CD swapping. This is untrue if you load all the CD's locally to your hard drive just by selecting an option off your file menu. It's simple to do and there are directions in the help menu if you have any trouble. The only downer is it takes up hard disk space, but not too much as long as it doesn't have a lot of graphics since usually it's only text that loads into a database. Overall, I have been happy with this product, but I have had an unfortunate experience trying to subscribe to their online libraries and ordering a the Scofield NIV unlock key. Their online ordering through the software does not work for me and their 1-800 # is always busy. I would give this a five star rating, if it weren't for those two things. Otherwise being able to compare translations, open commentaries and references to the exact verse your reading with a click of a button is a priceless time saver.

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Summary: The Nintendo Of Cult-Based Software
Review: This item appears to be a good value; unfortunately, the company has already ceased to support it. In this way, Parson's Technology is much like Nintendo: They publish a good title, sell many copies of it, and then withdraw their support of it after they publish a newer, "better", updated version. (Nintendo is noted for their lack of backward compatibility.)
I bought this secure in the knowledge that I would be able to subscribe to the company's online library. The cover of the box assures me that it will be possible to do so, and I'd rather do this than just buy a single additional book that I will soon have finished with reading. I contacted the company about this via email, and was assured of the fact that they had decided to stop supporting this title, and that subscribing would be impossible for users of QuickVerse 7, did I want to pay them still more money for the soon-to-be-antiquated-QuickVerse 8? They should understand my reluctance.
This is a very poor product, in addition. It only has a few translations of the cult's holy book, and almost all of these translation, and practically all of the references and guides, only present the point of view of the conservative Christian cults, those same that consistently say things like: "Our Bible commands us to do unto all others as we would have all others do unto us. Therefore, we must do all we can to keep same sex marriages illegal!" They do not seem to have taken into account that some of the purchasers of this product might be opposed to this hypocrisy, that some of us might not be conservative Christians at all.
It is probably for the better that Amazon no longer carries this product. The company will continue to disappoint.