>I've often wondered about doing something like this. But never got started thinking there must be licensing issues with the bible text/versions that different publishers have copyrighted.
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>So what versions/translations do you work with? How do you get electronic versions of the text?

There are a number of Bible versions that are public domain as well as other texts. As for the copyrighted ones -- some of these I have but I cannot distribute. I tried to get permission, but they wanted royalities which was not possible as I did not intend to sale the program or wanted to manage a royality requirement.