The Book of Mormon by the end of the year...
 

I'm sure many of you are aware of the request from the First Pres. to read the entire Book of Mormon by the end of the year.......I have to admit that I kinda got burned out after my mission, after having reading it numerous times (I don't usually read books over and over). So now it's like a fresh start. :)

So anyway I've been thinking of buying a version that doesn't have verses and footnotes and all that stuff. Like a real book. Anyone done it that way? I know statman was saying something about it a few months ago.

Read it in a foreign language
 

sometimes you'll get a new angle that way.

How about one in modern English; I consider thought the Book of Mormon's old English a little peculiar, even over the top, quite frankly (and it's not flawlessly deployed). There's only one version of the Bible that's been translated in that dialect that I'm aware of--the King James Version--and the language was recognized as archaic and deliberately stylized even in the Seventheenth Century. I heard somebody was undertaking the project of writing the Book of Mormon in contemporary prose. I'm wondering if the book would seem less daunting, lose some of its mystique among Mormons, if such a version were issued.

I doubt it would ever be authorized
 

for example, the older German translation left out and it came to pass, but when Emil Luschin retranslated it, he put them back in to conform to the origional.

And the BOM was proud to point out that the records were preserved in a language that only the clergy knew after a while.

The American Standard Bible is readable but has doctrinal changes. It would be a work and by virtue of the ties to Joseph Smith, it would seem highly unlikely.