I thought I’d start doing my favorite websites this week. This will be a multi-week series so if there’s a subject you want covered, simply leave it in the comments.
Before I start, could y’all do me a favor and pray for/send positive thoughts to Hevel? He’s a participant in this meme and the Quick Takes and he’s been in the hospital with encephalitis for almost two weeks now. Thanks!
Online Bible. Have you ever wondered what the 23rd Psalm sounds like in Czech? What about John 3:16 in Amharic (the language of Ethiopia)? Bible Gateway and The Unbound Bible are my two favorites. Bible Gateway will give you straight text while a href=”http://unbound.biola.edu/” title=”The Unbound Bible”>The Unbound Bible will let you compare translations side-by-side and has a ton of resources for translation/Bible study/word studies. If I need to know what a Scripture reference is about quickly, I instinctively go to Bible Gateway.
Online Translation. I’m wholeheartedly a Google person so I love Google Translate. It has many more languages than Bing Translator though Bing Translator includes two dialects of Klingon. I also am a user of Google Chrome so Google Translate automatically pops up for me.
Online Bookstore. I’m going with BarnesandNoble.Com on this one because I have a NOOK. I think if I had a Kindle, I would be solely an Amazon.Com girl. (I use Amazon.Com for everything else.)
Blogging Software. I think there’s a WordPress button somewhere on my front page. 🙂 I’ve been using WordPress and its predecessor b2 for 10 years now. I haven’t been able to create my own templates from scratch since v. 1.5 (summer of 2005) but I still love it and could probably write my own template if I would bother to learn PHP.
Feed Reader. As Google Reader will be heading the way of the dodo this summer, I’ve jumped on the Bloglovin bandwagon. It took a few days to adjust but it is an improvement over Google Reader as the feed is grouped by the order things are posted rather than being grouped by site and the Patheos.Com blogs actually display in full text in the reading frame.
Go love up Hallie and the others.
I jumped on the bloglovin band wagon, too, and have been pleasantly surprised.
Oh my goodness! Poor Hevel! Thanks for letting us know. He’ll definitely be in my prayers.
Hey Girlfriend,
I see a Joanna Fluke book on your bookshelf. Do you have the Candy Cane Caper? I tried her books and just couldn’t get into it. I still have that one, and if you want it, it is yours.
And one of these days I’ll move into the 21st century and get an e-reader. In the meantime I make do with books.
Thank you for thinking of me!
I do love Amazon, though some of their policies piss me off. But I figure, the money I spend on there is the money I make through my affiliate account, so I shouldn’t be too angry that they make me pay $3-5 more for Kindle books than Americans pay.
I am using Feedly in Chrome, I am just not lovin’ bloglovin.
I think it’s ridiculous that you have to pay $3-5 more for Kindle e-books.