TypeTheBible.com is now open.

This site was built for a very specific kind of Bible study: the slow, attentive work of typing Scripture, verse by verse, while attaching your own notes and cross references along the way.

My personal belief is that the act of typing every word of God’s Word can reinforce and deepen its imprint on the mind in ways that ordinary reading often does not. Reading is good. Studying is better. But typing forces attention. It slows the eyes, the hands, and the heart down enough to notice what might otherwise pass too quickly.

The Motivation

Forty-two years ago, I bought a new Bible and began reading it in earnest for the first time. I wanted to get serious about Scripture, so I paid good money for a high-quality leather-bound NIV. I loved that Bible. I cherished it.

I was careful with it. I avoided pens that might bleed through the page, so I underlined and wrote margin notes in pencil. Over the years, those pencil marks smudged and smeared. The page edges wore down. The binding began to fail.

Eventually, I found myself saddened by the thought of retiring my old friend. If I replaced it, how would I ever carry all those treasured notes and annotations into a new copy?

TypeTheBible.com is my answer to that problem.

Now I can preserve my annotations digitally, attach them directly to the passages they belong to, and print clean copies whenever I need them. I can print pages with room for new handwritten notes. I can mark them up with pencil or pen without worrying about ruining a cherished Bible with smudges, ink blots, or ugly handwriting.

And when I want a fresh copy, I can simply print one.

It is Bible study, memory work, annotation, and personal publishing brought together in one place.