If you’ve been following our blog, you know that we’ve been making some changes to our website in order to improve the shopping experience for our customers. So far we’ve revamped our main product landing page and implemented a customizable comparison chart of our primary collections. I am pleased to announce that we have just completed another project: Accordance Reviews. All of our product pages now feature a five-star review system where you can share your thoughts on a product with other Accordance users.

We are excited to hear your voices, and we hope you will consider adding some of your own Accordance Reviews today!

Jack Zavada, a contributing writer for About.com, has written a very positive review of Accordance 9. In addition to mentioning Accordance's power, breadth, and "Eyeblink fast searching," he also mentions our helpful customer service staff and Dr. J's podcasts. Be sure to check it out, and please add your own user review.

Update: Mary Fairchild of About.com also reports on our back-to-school sale and points to Mr. Zavada's review. She says of Mr. Zavada's review: "Spending a few months exploring Accordance 9 before writing his review, Jack said he felt challenged to find anything negative to report."

Earlier this year, Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie published a review of Accordance 9 by Dr. Boris Repschinski. This review, written in German, is posted on the Universität Innsbruck website. Dr. Repschinksi has now kindly provided an English translation. This review is unusual in that it discusses the quality of the texts and tools available in Accordance, as well as covering in detail the software's features and search capabilities. Be sure to check it out.

Yesterday I posted a link to the TUAW review of Accordance. A blog focused on all things Apple, it has an audience with a wide range of religious and non-religious views, and that showed in the comments on the TUAW review. But amid all the noise several users voiced their personal enthusiasm for Accordance. One even gave his own excellent comparative review. Be sure to check it out.

By the way, the author of the TUAW review lamented the poor signal-to-noise ratio of the comments his Bible software reviews have received, and I told him we got the same mix of reactions whenever we would exhibit Accordance at MacWorld Expo. Here's a link to a January blog post in which I talk about some of the strange looks we would receive.

A few Accordance users have also made their voices heard in response to a blog post on the "Other Best Bible Software." The author is a PC user who seems to take a dim view of Macs, and by "other" he means a second Windows program in addition to the one he had recommended in a previous post. So the author recommends one program for language work and a second for access to commentaries and other materials. This is not an unusual practice among Windows users. Accordance users, on the other hand, have been able to enjoy cutting-edge language features along with an ever-growing library of first-rate commentaries and reference works. I would argue that Accordance is therefore the only best Bible Software.

By the way, I intentionally did not link to that blog post because I don't want Accordance users to flood that post with pro-Accordance comments. I just wanted to remind you all how good you have it! :-)

Shifting gears a bit, I want to remind you all to subscribe to our weekly video training podcast called Lighting the Lamp. Last week, Dr. J showed how to use commentaries effectively by showcasing the new Hermeneia commentary. This week, he shows off some of the new features of Accordance 8.3. These podcasts are a tremendous source of ongoing Accordance training. They'll help make you the best power users of the best Bible software.

The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) has posted an excellent review of Accordance, emphasizing that many students of the Bible have actually switched to the Mac just to be able to use it. Be sure to check it out, including the always entertaining discussions in the comments!