Also, have you seen my Do-It-Yourself Scriptures Project page? With a few find/replace searches and one read-through while inserting paragraph breaks, you could create a version with the features you mention. It would take a while, but I think the exercise of creating the product is just as fruitful (if not more so) as reading the results. I plan on creating just what you describe, but it’ll be a few years’ wait.

I really want to start creating epub versions of the Structured Edition, as well as other editions that are customized to people’s tastes. My dream is to have a version where you can check and uncheck preferences—like turning off the verse numbers, but leaving on the chapter numbers; or selecting which set of heading divisions you want to display—Nathan’s or Bob’s or Michael’s.

The main obstacle, of course, is that I have zero knowledge of how to program something like that. The day I meet someone with both the skills and the interest, I’m going to beg him or her to collaborate with me!

I would love to get my hands on an epub version of the Book of Mormon that had these original chapters and the footnotes removed. I think there is value in reading the Book of Mormon as a “clean text”—meaning clear of extraneous stuff.

It won’t be a completely straightforward update, though, because the new 2013 edition made a few choices that differ from the available research. For example, for section 20, both Harper and Woodford give 10 Apr 1830, but the 2013 edition gives “soon after 6 Apr 1830.” So I’m going to have to decide whether to simply stick with one source (the 2013 edition) to simplify things for my readers, or whether to deviate in small ways if it allows for more specificity. It’s going to take a little time to discover those discrepancies, weigh them, choose my approach, then recreate the handouts.

Regarding due dates, all I can say is that it’s at the top of my project list right now!