NASB In Touch Ministries Wide Margin Edition in Blue Calfskin
Brian Blair has posted photos of his NASB In Touch Ministries Wide Margin Edition in Blue Calfskin to Flickr, including the one seen here, which demonstrates the limp binding. Here's what he has to say about it:
"It features a one inch wide margin around the text, Concordance, Maps, Presentation Page, Verse Format, Black Letter, Two Column Text. It is 10 x 7" with 1150pp OT and 336pp in the NT. The one thing to say first about it is that it is limp or maybe liquid would be a better word - especially for such a large Bible. In fact it makes it quite a difficult Bible to carry in one hand, one has to hold it like a clothes peg in the hand or close to the body. The leather is quite spongy as the covers seem to have no support in them - you can roll them up from the corners. The margins are decent and the pages bright and substancial enough for highlighting and notetaking without too much see-through."
I'd heard about these before, but this is the first time I've seen what they look like. Pretty interesting, I'd say. Thanks, Brian, for letting us have a look!
J. Mark Bertrand is a novelist and pastor whose writing on Bible design has helped spark a publishing revolution. Mark is the author of Rethinking Worldview: Learning to Think, Live, and Speak in This World (Crossway, 2007), as well as the novels Back on Murder, Pattern of Wounds, and Nothing to Hide—described as a “series worth getting attached to” (Christianity Today) by “a major crime fiction talent” (Weekly Standard) in the vein of Michael Connelly, Ian Rankin, and Henning Mankell.
Mark has a BA in English Literature from Union University, an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and an M.Div. from Heidelberg Theological Seminary. Through his influential Bible Design Blog, Mark has championed a new generation of readable Bibles. He is a founding member of the steering committee of the Society of Bible Craftsmanship, and chairs the Society’s Award Committee. His work was featured in the November 2021 issue of FaithLife’s Bible Study Magazine.
Mark also serves on the board of Worldview Academy, where he has been a member of the faculty of theology since 2003. Since 2017, he has been an ordained teaching elder in the Presbyterian Church in America. He and his wife Laurie life in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.