I thought I'd experiment and see how a Kindle book flies, so this will soon be available (today or next day?). I can't promise how nice it looks in a Kindle edition; I'm not generally a fan of it, but given it is hard to obtain and a useful book, thought I'd give it a whirl. If someone buys a copy let me know how it works out (I don't have a Kindle myself).

James Durham, Concerning Scandal (Naphtali Press: 1990, Kindle edition, 2008). You can read some of the reviews and back ground material at the second link to the hard copy which is sometimes available (not sure why it was recently for sale by RHB; most remaining copies still as new are in Scotland).
Kindle version:
Amazon.com: Concerning Scandal: Kindle Store:...
1990 print edition.
Amazon.com: A Treatise Concerning Scandal: James... One comment:
Gordon J. Keddie, Semper Reformanda, vol. 2 No 3
This book ought to be required reading in seminaries and, indeed, for all who would serve as elders in Christ's church. It will repay careful study and breathe grace into our handling of the disciplinary problems that often confront us. Sessions will find real blessing if they study together Part Two [public scandals], especially.

NB. At times both RTS Jackson and GPTS (I think) have had courses on Durham's book.

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When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another on having gone greatly beyond the ‘old dead orthodoxy,’ and on having left behind many of its antiquated errors: but when taxed with deviations from the received faith, they complain of the unreasonableness of their accusers, as they ‘differ from it only in words.’ This has been the standing course of errorists ever since the apostolic age. Samuel Miller, Introductory essay, The Articles of the Synod of Dort (1841).

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Very cool.

I've heard nothing but good things about the Kindle. When the second generation devices come out I will probably get one but the challenge might be finding the titles I read on the device as I read theology so much.

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Rich
Northern VA
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Can they render pdf files yet? When that happens my resistance level will drop considerably.

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R.Vic Bottomly
Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA

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Vic,
No; and that is my big complaint as well.

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Chris Coldwell
Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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• The Confessional Presbyterian, A Journal for Discussion of Presbyterian Doctrine & Practice
• The Blue Banner Archive

When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another on having gone greatly beyond the ‘old dead orthodoxy,’ and on having left behind many of its antiquated errors: but when taxed with deviations from the received faith, they complain of the unreasonableness of their accusers, as they ‘differ from it only in words.’ This has been the standing course of errorists ever since the apostolic age. Samuel Miller, Introductory essay, The Articles of the Synod of Dort (1841).

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Probably because as soon as that happens there's going to be oodles of free content that people no longer have to purchase.

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Casey Bessette
Westminster OPC • West Suburbs of Chicago • My Blog: Paradise Regained

"It is part of the calling of the ekklesia to learn to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge and also to make known within the world of science 'the manifold wisdom of God' in order that the final end of theology, as of all things, may be that the name of the Lord is glorified. Theology and dogmatics, too, exist for the Lord's sake." — Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 46

And the great thing about Capitalism (i.e. NOT regulated by the Gov't.) is that someone will soon put the Kindle out of business, because they'll offer everything Kindle does, along with PDF access. Sort of like "Internet Explorer" and "Netscape." Or, better yet, Open Office vs. Microsoft Office. Or, The Gimp vs. Adobe Photoshop. Or ...

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I'm sure Kindle's entire system is proprietary and, yeah, eventually there's going to be an open-source standard developed to combat it. (Maybe there already is such a standard?)

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Casey Bessette
Westminster OPC • West Suburbs of Chicago • My Blog: Paradise Regained

"It is part of the calling of the ekklesia to learn to know the love of Christ that surpasses all knowledge and also to make known within the world of science 'the manifold wisdom of God' in order that the final end of theology, as of all things, may be that the name of the Lord is glorified. Theology and dogmatics, too, exist for the Lord's sake." — Herman Bavinck, Reformed Dogmatics, vol. 1, p. 46

Whatever competition does have to resolve the age old problem in all these software/devices of copy protection. If a PDF reading device can do rights management Kindle will have to add PDF capability or lose out.

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Chris Coldwell
Lakewood Presbyterian Church (PCA), Member
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• The Confessional Presbyterian, A Journal for Discussion of Presbyterian Doctrine & Practice
• The Blue Banner Archive

When heresy rises in an evangelical body, it is never frank and open. It always begins by skulking, and assuming a disguise. Its advocates, when together, boast of great improvements, and congratulate one another on having gone greatly beyond the ‘old dead orthodoxy,’ and on having left behind many of its antiquated errors: but when taxed with deviations from the received faith, they complain of the unreasonableness of their accusers, as they ‘differ from it only in words.’ This has been the standing course of errorists ever since the apostolic age. Samuel Miller, Introductory essay, The Articles of the Synod of Dort (1841).

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I have a Kindle and I ordered the book. It came through beautifully and looks like a goldmine of writing. It down loads in a little different than other books in that the headings load in and you simply click on the essay or chapter you want to read instead of turning pages until you get to the beginning of the book. You are there when you are at the contents THEN you must choose to bring up the pages you want to read. No big deal. In fact, makes perfect sense. Thank you for making this available.

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Richard H. King
Providence PCA
Lubbock, Texas
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I was under the impression that amazon converted pdf's to ebook format for free-ish. Though the pdf's have to be text selectable rather than photocopies. Is this not the case? I am strongly considering buying a kindle and loading it with public domain puritan works but want to make sure this is possible before purchasing one.

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Joe Holland
Associate Pastor
First Presbyterian Church
Kosciusko, MS
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I just ran across this: How to view PDF files on the Kindle « Amazon Kindle Guide, Free Books & Resources

There may be a way after all. I also noticed that the Kindle also renders jpegs. Acrobat (if you have it) converts pdfs to jpegs for nothing. I don't know how much storage that would use up, but it sounds like an option too.

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R.Vic Bottomly
Providence Reformed Baptist Church, Tacoma, WA

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