“Traditionally, reference Bibles look like dictionaries that you look things up in,” [Mark] Bertrand said. “Reader-friendly Bibles are more like novels. I think what is happening is that we’re lamenting that people don’t read their Bibles enough, and now we’ve realized the design of Bibles has an influence on that.”

The acceptance of this new format for Bible reading may come out of our distracted habits of Internet reading, notes Dane Ortlund of Crossway.