Free Douay-Rheims Bible Software

Welcome!
Welcome to www.bible73.com! Here you can download free software containing the following:
1. The Douay-Rheims translation of the Bible, along with the notes by Bishop Richard Challoner. (Click here to learn why I chose the Douay-Rheims version.)
2. Definitions of unfamiliar words in the Bible. Simply click on a word to see a brief definition.
3. Cross-references between verses.
4. A concordance that lets you look up any single word. (What's a concordance?)
5. An advanced concordance that lets you look up multiple words.
6. The software source code, to encourage programmers to make improvements.
There's no catch. The software is free, and in the public domain (with no warranty). There's nothing hidden in the software (e.g., spyware) - the included source code is your assurance of that. I simply wanted to make my favorite translation of the Bible as easy to use as possible by making it accessible on your computer, even when you don't have an Internet connection. I also wanted to make it a little less difficult to read by providing brief definitions of unfamiliar words.

Download
 To download the software, click here (bible.zip, about 3.5 MB). The software was last updated on 2010-Jan-13.

Installing the Software
Instructions for installing the software are in the file _readme.txt, but here's a summary:
1. Create a folder anywhere on your computer, and unpack bible.zip into it.
2. Create shortcuts to bible.htm and advcon.exe, and drag the shortcuts to your desktop.
3. Run setup.exe to create the necessary files.
4. Just double click the shortcut to bible.htm to get started.
No Internet connection is required to run the software, because all the files are local on your computer. Except for the advanced concordance and the program that changes colors, the software runs entirely in your Web browser. Therefore, once you've installed the software on a PC, you can copy all the .htm files to any computer with a Web browser (even a PDA) and run everything but the advanced concordance and the program that changes colors on that computer. (Those two programs require Windows® to run.)

Contacting the Software Author
My name is John Herro, and you can reach me at iit@adatutor.com, or at
JOHN J HERRO
5771 SPIRE RIDGE CT
CINCINNATI OH 45247-3268
U. S. A.
(To reduce the amount of spam that I receive, I change my E-address periodically, but you can always find my latest E-address and current postal address here.)
I'd love to hear from you! Please send me your comments and suggestions.
God bless you and yours,
- John Herro

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