Kenneth,
Those are good points. I would add another, alluded to above. Download
Bible Explorer 4 and then add
freebies to it, as well as any non-free CROSS-formatted books which are much cheaper than their Libronix counterparts. The one striking example thus far is the
Tozer Electronic Library for $35. Or, you can save up for the
Libronix Tozer for a cool $400.
To be fair, I've often seen Libronix and CROSS titles for close to the same price. I just can't get over the difference in the Tozer editions. I've got to be missing something.
Back to the Libronix PBB's. My initial works with some reveal that verses in your preferred translation will pop-up when you place the cursor on the Scripture reference, so that's a nice plus. Footnotes, though, have to be accessed manually by scrolling to the end of the document. I suspect we're out of luck when it comes to translating other languages as the regular Libronix works do. BTW, it seems that what I download was almost 700 MB, and there were some things I didn't download. Some folks have done a lot of work to make that treasure trove available.
It's hard to beat free when funds are tight. I saw that Thomas Goodwin (12 vols.) has been placed on pre-pub for $180 at the present. I should have more seriously considered the church with the million dollar budget instead of the one with the $150K budget.
Bill