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What’s new

What changed on Verses Across, week by week. For what’s planned next, see Coming soon.

Week of November 9

  • Themes: 67 themes (forgiveness, the flood, exile, mercy, death…), each traced across every tradition and the Library's books, side by side. A verse that is one of a theme's strongest passages shows it in Cross references.
  • Scriptures and Library: two sides in one app, with a small switch at the top. Each side lists its own shelves, and search and cross references stay on their side unless you include the other.
  • Search every book in the Library at once: which books mention a whale, a lighthouse or a dragon, with the chapters to open.
  • At the end of a Library book, “If you liked this…” suggests the books most like it.
  • A thin progress bar shows how far you are through a chapter, with the minutes left. Library books read as one long scroll.
  • Cross references now link books to books, and scriptures to the closest passages in the Library.
  • Thousands of small leftovers in the books tidied (stray underscores, margin notes, picture captions, accents), and 50 long book names shortened.
  • Freethought moved to the Library, next to Literature.
  • The tour has two new steps: the Scriptures and Library switch, and what's coming next.

Week of November 2

  • Literature: over 1,000 public-domain novels, poems, plays, children's books and non-fiction, with search inside every book.
  • Freethought: 39 public-domain books in six shelves.
  • The I Ching, all 64 hexagrams, in James Legge's 1882 translation.
  • Words mode: pronunciations for Hebrew, Arabic and Chinese words, and Russian, Greek, Hebrew and Arabic words letter by letter.
  • Ask AI: an “In depth” switch for longer answers.
  • “Studied it again” for chapters you re-read, with re-reading badges.
  • Progress, goals, badges, sync codes and study groups.
  • Offline downloads: keep chosen languages and versions on your device, with their recorded audio.
  • A guided tour, continuous scroll into the next chapter, red-letter words of Jesus, and word lookup in nine languages.
  • A “Send feedback” form in the menu, About and every verse's menu.
  • Many new texts: the Quran, Tanakh, Mishnah, Talmud, Hadith, the Pali Canon, the Vedas, Upanishads, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Bhagavad Gita and more.
  • Read-along with recorded voices that keep playing with the screen off.

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