This is a short tutorial on how to install the Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price on a Blackberry. People are amazed when they see the scriptures on my Blackberry. I keep getting asked how to put scriptures on a Blackberry, so here’s how you do it. (I have a Blackberry Curve 8320, but this should work with all the newer Blackberries - Pearl 81xx, Curve 83xx, and 88xx.)Step 1: Memory Card
- Make sure you have a large enough memory card. These are pretty cheap these days. My microsd card is 2GB.
Step 2: Install MobiPocket Reader
- You can download MobiPocket Reader here and follow the instructions listed on the website.
- Alternatively, you can install it over-the-air (OTA) by going to http://m.mobipocket.com/ from your Blackberry’s browser.
Step 3: Download LDS Scriptures
- This was the thing I had the most difficult time with. The church website, lds.org, does not offer the scriptures for MobiPocket. So, I had to find one online. Not just any version, a free version :). It took me a while, but I found one. I tried looking for it again the other day, but I couldn’t find it again for some reason. I’ll save you all some time by putting a copy of the one I downloaded here.
- After you download the file, unzip it and copy it to your Blackberry. (Basically, you plug your Blackberry into your computer with the USB cable. In Windows, click on My Computer and then click on the Blackberry drive; it should be listed as a flash drive. Then open the eBooks folder and copy the LDS Scriptures Blackberry.prc file to the eBook folder. On Macs, open up the mounted drive and go to the eBooks folder and copy the LDS Scriptures Blackberry.prc file to the eBooks folder.)
- That’s it! Open up MobiPocket on your Blackberry, and you should be able to see the scriptures.
Installing Additional Church Content
- Although you can’t download the scriptures from lds.org, you can download a bunch of other stuff like general conference, manuals, Ensigns, and hymns. Click here to go to the church download site. It says it's for Palm devices, but the files work for Blackberry as well.
(Disclaimer: I’m not responsible if you mess up your Blackberry. Make sure you back up your data before you try this!)
16 comments:
Hello,
A couple months ago I say a video on your site...CTR ring song. Anyway to get the link to that again?
Awesome thanks for this information
Thanks, got scriptures on my blackberry 8900 thanks to you!
That was so simple thanks to your links!
is there a way to have it automatically scrolling while reading the scriptures? I know the pearl could do it, but can the curve, if so how do I do that. thanks e-mail me please at dmdskruts@gmail.com
Mine doesn't work at all! Can't find it in the Library.
I just installed mobipocket reader Bata version for the Blackberry 9000 and 95000 and the LDS Scriptures dowloaded from the link above onto my Blackberry Bold. It works great. Thanks
I was very happy to find this post with a link to the scripture download! However, upon downloading the zip file, I found that it was empty. Can you please look into this?
Can anyone point me to any other download link for the LDS scriptures in the Mobipocket Reader format?
Ok, I didn't give up and found a reader called iSilo that does the trick. It's not as good as YanCEyWare, but at least I have my scriptures and other publications on my Blackberry 8330.
Here are some links to get you started if you decide to go this route:
iSilo - Find iSilo reader downloads for Blackberry and Blackberry Touch here.
David's LDS iSolo eBooks - eBooks in the iSilo format, including the standard works.
More LDS eBooks in iSilo Format
Oops. Sorry, here is the link to more LDS eBooks in iSilo Format. The one above is broken.
http://www.colebin.com/PDA/#sl
I can't get your link to work to download the scriptures :(
Thank you so much! i've been looking around for a long time trying to find a free version of the scriptures to put on my blackberry - you're awesome!
Thanks man. I've been looking for this for a while!
I just downloaded it to my Black Berry Tour and it works great! Thank you very much this was so helpful!!!
Thank you much! You give good instructions...
I spent hours this weekend trying to find out how to do this on my (new to me)9530 Blackberry. Disappointed that LDS.org doesn't provide. I'm glad I found your sight.
Thanks so much.
Rick Evertsen
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