ESV Pocket Bible

Easy to carry in purse or pocket. Font is fine for my vision. Leather is beautiful and feels good. But the fit in my hands!!! Perfection. My new favourite for sure.

Durable, since it's real (not bonded) leather and smyth sewn binding. A pocket Bible that's small enough to actually fit in your pocket (imagine that!), and pretty easily too, while containing the whole Bible. The font is surprisingly legible! It's small, but not the smallest I've seen. Feels similar to a Cambridge Pitt Minion. And, the translation is excellent to boot.There are "cons," but I don't care about them! I've been looking for a usable and durable pocket Bible in a good modern translation (not KJV) for years, and this is by far the best I've found. It is well worth the asking price! Way to go Crossway! 👏As soon as I handled my copy I showed it to my wife, and I could tell she was impressed. I asked her if she would like one, since it would easily fit in her purse or daiper-bag. She enthusiastically said yes, so I said, "It's yours; Merry Christmas." "Oh thank you," she replied, "I love it!"...then I immediately bought another one. Lol 😆

The ghosting is so clear it feels like seeing double (compare with vest pocket image)

This is a nice pocket bible. Feels light and fits in my back pockets. The buffalo leather is nice cover. The edges in the leather are not neat and may be a dislike to some people but for me its fine. And the color and feel is as expected for leather. I’ve carried this through a church retreat a few weeks ago and was glad not to carry a bigger bible around.

While I already had a NIV pocket sized bible from Zondervan, it used glue to bind the pages. I tend to really open my book wide to lay it flat, and binding kept cracking and the pages would fall out. I grew tired of gluing and taping the book, so I decided to try this bible since it uses Smyth binding. It's night and day. I can open this bible flat any where I want, and there are no spine issues. This bible is ESV, which I think I actually do like better. This bible is even smaller than the Zondervan, and please note that the print is very small. Also this bible lacks the red lettering, the cross reference, maps, and introductions before each book. I do miss all of that. It's unfortunate that Zondervan just doesn't improve the binding it uses.