Ran across an interesting story this morning on the CBS News.com site. It's titled Christianity Condensed and it's a story about a new, shortened version of the Bible. The title is " 100- Minute Bible " and has only 20,000 words and 60 pages.
Go to http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/09/27/print/main886631.shtml
Sounds like a good idea to me.