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Basics

Each of the 7 editions is the adaptation of a book (or a booklet). Users can navigate to the adjoining pages using the left and right chevron arrows above the bottom bar. These disappear when users scroll down the page and reappear on scrolling upwards.

Apart from the Two-Minute Edition, each edition has eight sections (A‑H). In the smaller editions, these sections are effectively chapters. In the larger editions they are referred to as "Units", with each one containing a number of chapters. Color-coding is used for the eight sections.

Settings

There are settings available to do such things as:

• add more content (e.g. comments, cross-references);
• enable more links;
• vary the layout; and
• apply coloring.

Some of the settings apply to all of the 7 editions, while the others apply to one or more of the editions. For example, selecting a background color will apply that color to the background of all the editions – whereas activating the Footnotes setting will only apply to the In-Depth Edition as it is the only edition with footnotes.

Settings has a horizontal "three dots" icon in the top right corner. The first option in its menu is Applicable to current edition. This is available when Settings has been opened from a page in one of the 7 editions. Activating it will display only the settings applicable to that edition.

Interactive Features

This app has various interactive features including:

• comprehensive navigation, including menus and thousands of hyperlinks;
• Scripture and subject indexes, with links to the main text.
• the functionality to search headings;
• the capacity to set and name multiple bookmarks; and
• various display settings – including the author's comments, layout settings and color options.

Colored Headings as Links

Any colored heading is a hyperlink, not just blue headings. There are numerous links to and from headings in the text, as follows.

• There are hyperlinks in the Contents to each of the 8 units and 40 chapters. Additionally, there are hyperlinks at the start of each major section to the headings in the text that follows.
• Each heading in the text is a hyperlink to the corresponding heading in a list of all the headings – which are in turn hyperlinks back to the headings. In the online versions, these lists of headings occur at the bottom of each page in the main text. In the ebook versions, the lists in the All Headings Lists section are used.
• The Major Headings Lists section contains lists of the major headings for each of the 8 units. The headings listed are hyperlinks to the corresponding headings in the text.
• The All Headings Lists section contains lists of all headings for each of the 40 chapters. The headings listed are hyperlinks to the corresponding headings in the text.

Cross-References

There are cross references to other headings in the text. These can occur at the start of chapters, parts, sections and subheadings. These are blue and so obviously are hyperlinks.

The arrows ⇑ and ⇓ occur immediately after verse references in some comments and cross references, e.g. Ex 40:38 ⇑; Ex 13:21 ⇓. These are cross referencing the referred-to verse/s in the previous or following subsection respectively.

Similarly, the arrows ↑ and ↓ occur immediately after verse references in some comments, e.g. Ex 24:9–11 ↑; Ex 6:3 ↓. These are cross referencing the referred-to verse/s above or below in the same subsection as where they are used.

Index Links

The Scripture Index and the Subject Index have hyperlinks under the verses and topics listed, to the verses and topics in the text.

These links refer to the section that the verse or topic appears, rather than page numbers. For example, 12.II.C refers to Chapter 12, Part II, Section C.

Some of the links in the Subject Index are bold. This denotes that the link is to a major heading.

Bookmarks

Activating the Bookmark button (on the bottom bar) displays a Bookmarks dialogue box. This enables the user to set up to eight bookmarks in the three largest editions, and up to four bookmarks or less in the smaller editions.

Bookmarks are stored in a device’s local storage. This allows them to be available in later sessions, as well as the current session.

When a bookmark is set, its icon changes to the color associated with the unit in which the bookmark is set. For example, in the image above the first two bookmarks are a red-violet color, which indicates that they are set on pages in Unit A. The third bookmark is set on a page in Unit E, being green, while the fourth bookmark is not currently set.

To set a bookmark, firstly tap or click the element that is to be bookmarked (with the Bookmarks dialogue box open). The element will briefly display a grey background to indicate that it was selected. Then tap a Set button.

Elements that can be bookmarked include: headings (apart from ones in a list); and verses.

When setting a bookmark, the user is given the option of inserting a label for the bookmark – as per the image immediately above. The label can be up to 20 characters long.

Checking Context

In the other formats (the interactive, PDF & eBook versions of the material), clicking on a passage's reference will take the user to the passage in its chapter on a Bible website. This is to enable users to quickly check the context of a passage. This functionality is not available on this app.

To check a passage's context online efficiently when using this app, users can activate options in the Bible websites section of the Settings.

Updates

For Android users to ensure they have the latest updates:

• close the app;
• open Settings;
• scroll down to and tap The Bible Unpacked;
• tap Storage and cache; and
• tap CLEAR CACHE.

If the app does not appear to be working correctly, repeat the above steps except in the last step choose CLEAR STORAGE instead of CLEAR CACHE. Note that this will also clear any bookmarks you have set. If need be, reinstall the app.

Likewise, if the app is not working correctly on an iOS device, a reinstallation might be required.