The Book of Mormon: A Reader's Edition Book

This is my all-around favorite edition of the Book of Mormon and the one that spoiled the standard Church edition for me. Hardy's edition is designed to be reader-friendly and help the underlying logic of the text come out through the formatting. Without changing any words, he modernized the punctuation (adding quotation marks, parenthesis, etc.), organized the sentences into paragraphs, inserted descriptive titles above sub-sections, and arranged poetry into poetic stanzas. Useful footnotes note calendar dates, reveal the source of biblical quotations, point out where various narrative threads stop and pick up, and indicate where the original chapter breaks were. The cumulative result is a vastly improved reading experience that lets me understand the text and how the text works in new ways. This is the version I give away to friends, and I even bought the Kindle edition for when I'm not at home. I can't recommend this enough. Try it.