Thank you, Redshift.

What a shame that God's Word has to be so entangled in legal issues. I personally "own", i.e. paid for, 2 electronic (Laridian) copies and at least two print copies of the NIV; yet I am prevented from using it on what has become my current reader of choice, the Nokia N800. Even by man's laws, I believe I have the right to use that content in any way that I like, so long as I don't sell it or give it away.

The stumbling block is obtaining the raw text. Bible Gateway has installed some routines that prevent anything beyond casual browsing; it appears to be a timer or maybe a page limit, based maybe on the IP address, or possibly on some other factor used to identify the computer doing the download. In any event after about 10 chapters you start to get a message saying that your computer is exhibiting "unusual behavior", and refusing to display any more text. A day later you can get another 10 chapters.

This weekend I will look for other sources. I know I have an old copy of The Online Bible for the PC, I just don't remember if it had the NIV or not. In the meantime, the ACV that is available from Sword is OK.

I love a challenge like this. The irony is, IMHO, that for every geek like me that would spend many hours trying to adapt something, there are probably 99 others who would gladly buy it. If it were available I would gladly pay for an N800 version of Laridian, but I guess the market is too small.

Even a plain text version would be welcome. You could then import it into the reader of your choice. Zondervan, are you listening? How many people would really steal a Bible anyway????

Walt