About

BibleCourier is an electronic pocket Bible designed especially for people who are blind or visually impaired. It weighs about 4 ounces (including batteries) and is about the size of a pocket New Testament — 4 by 2 by 0.75 inches — so it fits easily in a shirt pocket or a purse. Two AA batteries power it for several months of normal use, or more than 30 hours of continuous reading.

BibleCourier’s memory holds three titles of your choice — complete Bibles (each with both the Old and New Testaments), New Testaments, or commentaries. Every Bible text comes with a users guide in digital format. The extra Apocrypha books — Tobit, Judith, Ecclesiasticus, Wisdom, Baruch, additions to Esther, additions to Daniel, and First and Second Maccabees — are now included with the New Jerusalem Bible (NJB) and the King James Version with Apocrypha (KJVA).

You can identify or switch between the three Bible versions using the “star key” and “zero key” together. Each Bible keeps its own last location and bookmarks, so you can study two translations in parallel — with each one focused on a different book, chapter, or verse.

Like a telephone keypad, BibleCourier has twelve buttons on its face, with a raised dot above the 5 key. These keys let you move quickly through the books, chapters, and verses of the audio Bible. Every key also has built-in help: hold it down until you hear two beeps.

BibleCourier has many other features, including the ability to read forward or back one sentence at a time. You can set bookmarks at favorite verses and use Power Search — repeatedly jumping halfway toward a book, chapter, or verse — to reach any spot in just a few key presses. A sleep timer can stop the reading after a set time to conserve battery power. A page of key summaries is available to help you learn these functions.

What you get when you order a BibleCourier

• The talking BibleCourier unit, manufactured by Springer Design, Inc.
• One set of AA batteries, installed
• Stereo earbuds for private listening
• Your choice of three titles from the list below — Bibles, New Testaments, or commentaries
• A 90-day warranty against defects in material and workmanship

How to order a BibleCourier

LBEA is a non-profit ministry, and we want these Bibles to be affordable for people who are blind or visually impaired. We offer the BibleCourier, loaded with three titles of your choice, for only $95.00 plus shipping.

Upon receipt of your order, LBEA will mail your BibleCourier — postage paid, by U.S. Priority or First Class Mail — loaded with your choice of three titles from the list below. A page is available to help you compare Bible versions.

Word-for-word (literal)

• (ASV) American Standard
• (ESV) English Standard
• (KJV) King James
• (KJVA) King James with Apocrypha
• (MEV) Modern English Version
• (NAS1977) New American Standard 1977
• (NAS1995) New American Standard 1995
• (NAS2020) New American Standard 2020
• (NKJV) New King James
• (NRSV) New Revised Standard
• (RSV) Revised Standard
• (RSVA) Revised Standard with Apocrypha

Balanced (thought-for-thought)

• (CEB) Common English Bible
• (CSB) Christian Standard Bible
• (EHV) Evangelical Heritage Version
• (GW) God’s Word Translation
• (HCSB) Holman Christian Standard Bible
• (NET) New English Translation
• (NIV1984) New International Version 1984
• (NIV2011) New International Version 2011
• (NLT) New Living Translation
• (WEB) World English Bible

Easy-to-read

• (BBE) Bible in Basic English
• (CEV) Contemporary English
• (ERV) Easy-to-Read Version
• (GNT) Good News Translation
• (ICB) International Children’s Bible
• (NIRV) New International Reader’s Version

Paraphrase

• (MSG) The Message Bible
• (TLB) The Living Bible

Amplified

• (AMP) Amplified Bible with footnotes
• (AMPC) Amplified Bible Classic

Catholic editions

• (CPDV) Catholic Public Domain Version
• (NABRE) New American Bible Revised
• (NJB) New Jerusalem Bible
• (NRSVCE) New Revised Standard Version, Catholic Edition

Messianic Jewish

• (TLV) Tree of Life Bible

New Testaments

• (BLB) Berean Literal Bible
• (JBP) J. B. Phillips New Testament
• (TPT) The Passion Translation

Commentaries & study

• (HCC) Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary

All orders must be made by mail or through PayPal, with checks and money orders payable in U.S. funds. A shipping charge is added to each order. Please include a telephone number and/or email address with your order so we can reach you if we have any questions.

LBEA can accept credit or debit card orders only through PayPal. To order using PayPal, click the order by PayPal link.