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There was a beautifully made book from 1936 called "The Bible Designed To Be Read As Literature" that was set out and edited to be more like a normal book:

https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.10239/

I picked up a copy secondhand years ago and I'm happy I did.

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Bibliotheca looks like possibly a modern version of this, I recently ordered a copy so I'll know when it ships late 2023.

https://www.bibliotheca.co/

I like the ESV and Crossway publishes a Reader's Edition exactly like this:

https://www.crossway.org/bibles/esv-readers-bible-cob/

That does look amazing, thank you for the link. Unfortunately for me it doesn't contain the deuterocanonical books ("apocrypha") which for me are important to have.

Crossway does publish the ESV with apocrypha. I think there must be a Reader's Edition with them somewhere.

> Crossway does publish the ESV with apocrypha.

I'll have to take another look, last I checked i couldn't find one meeting my specifications but I may have missed something. Thanks!

Unfortunately the ESV Reader's Edition does not contain the deuterocanonical books, it's actually noted on the Bibliotheca (Bible) Wikipedia article that Crossway's edition "could be viewed as less ecumenical" because it's missing these books. Still, the ESV set is stunning and I still am considering picking up, I'd just use another Bible for the missing books.

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