Read The UB
The UB search engine
The Urantia Book, a powerful offline search engine available (v. 2.4)
- Works in all today’s Windows based PC’s (Windows 2000+)
- Works offline, i.e. no internet connection
- Searches the text paragraphwise
- Search terms are highlighted in the text
- Includes all available translations of The Urantia Book (19 + 9 languages)
- Possible to read the text in one or two lanuages parallel
- Support for targeted listening of the audiobook (limited papers)
- In parallel reading the matching paragraphs are placed next to each other
- Includes TUB cover gallery (78 images)
- No installation. You can place software on the hard disk or on a portable USB-memory. Click-to-run
Change log [2nd Aug 2020]
(When updating, first remove the earlier version by deleting the folder UBs)
Version 2.4- Updated: Support for targeted listening of the audiobook
(Readiness: English: complete, Finnish: complete, Estonian: 5 papers) - Updated: English text updated (incl. also SRT-list, i.e. all text corrections since 1955)
- Updated: Danish, Estonian, Russian, Germany, French, Polish, Hungarian, Italian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Persian (Farsi), Spanish (eur.) and Spanish (am.) -translations updated
- Added: Indonesian translation added (draft version)
- Added: Support for targeted listening of the audiobook
(Readiness: Fin: complete, Eng: 25 papers, Est: 5 papers) - Updated: Portuguese translation updated
- Updated: Hebrew translation updated
- Updated: Incomplete Persian translation added 5 more papers
- Improved: Some improvements in user interface
- Added: Czech translation (draft copy)
- Updated: Dutch translation updated till version 1997-1.11
- Fixed: Estonian translation was of an unknown reason an uncontrolled (draft?) version, in spite of correct version number.
- Improved: Paragraph numbering has been both fixed and harmonized in many translations closer to English version numbers. This will improve parallel reading in all languages, to find correct matching paragraphs.
- Added: Japanese translation (draft copy)
- Updated: Polish papers updated 4th Oct 2019
- Fixed: Hebrew translation might not show all correctly in parallel reading
- Improved: More compact header and more stable window scrolling
- Updated: Russian translation updated 10th July 2019
- Improved: Paragraphs in the result list include also the paper number with title
- Improved: Paragraph link in the result list opens the paper next to results - no more in a new window
- Improved: Some improvements in user interface and minor bug fixes
- No major improvements or changes
- This is more like a maintenance release for smaller bugs and some improvements in user interface
- Added: Three new draft copies (Arabic, Croat and Turkish)
- Added: Book covers of the new translations (above)
- Added: Search tips near by search box
- Updated: Greek papers updated 17th April 2019
- Improved: Parallel reading shows the matching paragraphs next to each other
- Improved: Possible to select both languages in reading window
- Added: TUB cover-page gallery (72 cover images)
- Added: Check version update (online). The check is found on Info-page ("?")
- Updated: Persian (Farsi) papers updated 9th March 2019
- Improved: Paragraphs in Search Result are now sorted in the order of text in the book
- Improved: Some improvements in user interface
- Added: Hebrew translation (draft copy)
- Added: Another Spanish translation (now both European and American translations)
- Improved: Html-structures cleaned, which improves browser compatibility
- Improved: Some improvements in user interface
- Tested: Apple Platform (MacOS Mojave 10.14): XAMPP (php 7.2) + UBs_noWebS. → OK
- Tested: Linux Platform (Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS): XAMPP (php 7.2) + UBs_noWebS. → OK
- Fixed: Search-button was invisible in some installations ('enter' still worked)
- Fixed: Highlighting the matching paragraphs in parallel reading not always working
- Fixed: Some page links were broken in some environments
- First public release