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SWRB Puritan Hard Drive Video 1-2 – Introductory Video SWRB’s Puritan Hard Drive Video 1-2 (Introduction) is now online SWRB’s Puritan Hard Drive is the most extensive and robust Reformation study tool ever created – thanks be to the Lord! It presently contains over one million dollars worth of classic and contemporary Puritan and Reformation books (PDFs), MP3s and videos, a comprehensive custom search/interface program (SWRB KnowledgeBase), and a powerful embedded database. The extensive world-class KnowledgeBase software and database are also fully upgradeable (via free Web downloads we will provide as new features are released), so the Puritan Hard Drive can grow with you as you grow in the Lord. Moreover, all future SWRB publications (PDF books, MP3s and videos), as well as resources from other participating publishers, may also be downloaded free, or at a nominal cost (most for just 99 cents each), as they become available in the future. These low cost digital downloads will be completely integrated with the KnowledgeBase and database on the Puritan Hard Drive and will even include the rarest of Reformation resources, which can cost thousands of dollars each on the antiquarian book market (e.g., just one eight volume set presently on the Puritan Hard Drive cost $US28,000.00 to obtain for scanning). Additionally, as an added bonus, most books on the Puritan Hard Drive are either already in text format or have been ORCed using state-of-the-art Optical Character Recognition software.

We have even embedded indexing in the OCRed books (PDFs) so that they are not only searchable, but can be searched at lighting fast speeds. You may also cut and paste from these books! We have also appended extensive indices to all of the searchable books to further aid you in your studies. In short, the Puritan Hard Drive can greatly increase your knowledge of the Lord and His truth (by God’s grace) in much less time than any other study method or tool of which we are aware. Furthermore, in the 25 years we have been building the Puritan Hard Drive, only the very best resources were selected for inclusion, which means you will have virtually instant access to the very best (and most sanctified) Christian minds in history on virtually every topic you can imagine. Never before has a Christian study tool this powerful ever existed, all thanks and glory be to the Lord! Please take full advantage of the best Christian (Puritan and Reformed) study resources and cutting edge educational technology ever available, at the lowest price possible, by purchasing the Puritan Hard Drive today (or before the prepublication sale ends) – you (and your family and your church) will be very thankful you did!

Additional Benefits of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) There are additional benefits to the Puritan Hard Drive as a result of having so much book material in searchable (text) format. Because we now have the text for all the books that are OCRed, we have produced indices for every book that is OCRed. In a number of cases this is the first time indices are available for some of the most important Puritan and Reformed writings that have ever been available! All the extensive programmatically produced indices for the OCRed books are also appended to the actual PDF (book) files on the Puritan Hard Drive, giving you the ability to quickly and easily dig deep into this treasure trove of classic and contemporary Puritan and Reformed books using these sizable and substantial indices. Moreover, the SWRB produced indices often contain many more references than most indices you would find in books that may already have indices (from the original publisher). The new SWRB generated indices also have the advantage of referring to the page in the PDF, rather than the actual page in the book, which makes it much easier for you to speedily access any indexed word or phrase in the book (and you are still able to see the original book page number when you arrive at your destination — if you need that reference for any purpose). Because having searchable and copy/cut/pastable text available to you (with additional and complimentary indexing search features) will be so valuable to your studies, we have added some great new features to the SWRB KnowledgeBase program on the Puritan Hard Drive — related to the many new indices that will be available. You are able to search for indexed words or phrases using a built-in “help screen” that will present all indexed words or phrases related to your search term. The most amazing thing about this screen/function is that once you click on an indexed word or phrase, you are presented with a Search Results screen that will show you every book on the Puritan Hard Drive that contains the indexed word or phrase you choose!

This is phenomenally helpful for getting right to the most specific of indexed words or phrases in every text-based book (which is most of the books on the Puritan Hard Drive), across the complete Puritan Hard Drive. Pastors are able to quickly research whole sermons (or even series of sermons) using this feature, from many of the best Christian books ever published. Seminary students may use this feature to almost instantly locate all the best Puritan and Reformation source material for papers and other course requirements. Fathers and mothers can learn about all the most scriptural methods for raising godly children with just a few mouse clicks. And the uses go on and on for just this single, unprecedented, new feature on the Puritan Hard Drive!