Patent US 4,445,196

A method of enhancing the learning and appreciation of passages from the Bible entails providing a portable electronic Bible having an electronic character display means, biblical text storage means, and input address means for causing selected passages from the Bible to be rapidly displayed during the course of and after the end of a religious gathering. The system may be preprogrammed by the leader of the religious gathering by entering data indicative of selected passages into a selection command program store, so that the selected passages may be thereafter read out in sequence merely by touching a single button during the gathering. The program store may also be employed by the participants of a religious gathering to similarly preprogram the system prior to the religious gathering and/or to retain the selection command data so that the selected passages may be viewed for further study and prayer after the termination of the religious gathering. As a result, the relatively slow and tedious retrieval of the selected passages, due to the thinness of the pages and small print associated with Bibles generally in use, is circumvented. Large letter readout is particularly helpful to those with poor eyesight and children.