Are there plans to support reading Personal Books on iOS? Thank you.
Are there plans to support reading Personal Books on iOS?
Yes, but no time tables. The primary issue is syncing of personal books. Unless Logos were to utilize a third party service (such as dropbox), or charge users a service fee, this could be an expensive endeavor. Bob has said that syncing of personal books IS coming, but no time tables have been made public.
I know what Alabama says is true, and I believe Bob and the team are trying to find a reliable solution that makes sense for their business. I do hope they get it worked out sooner rather than later. Not only would it be nice to have PB's sync between computers (desktop to laptop, etc); having them sync between platforms (PC / Mac to IOS / Android) would be huge.
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Are there plans to support reading Personal Books on iOS? Yes, but no time tables. The primary issue is syncing of personal books. Unless Logos were to utilize a third party service (such as dropbox), or charge users a service fee, this could be an expensive endeavor. Bob has said that syncing of personal books IS coming, but no time tables have been made public.
What if Logos added a LOCAL sync to mobile device commend that did all of the work on your computer without going through the Logos servers? You attach your mobile device as a USB device and execute Sync Mobile. Then we could do it ourselves, not as convent but gets the job done, no Logos server space used, no copyright problems.
What if Logos added a LOCAL sync to mobile device commend that did all of the work on your computer without going through the Logos servers?
Personally, I wouldn't prefer that solution. There aren't many apps that work that way on iOS, and only "geeks" would really know what to do. IMO, I think working with dropbox and/or iCloud is the way to go.
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A direct response from the team representative:http://community.logos.com/forums/t/66838.aspx?PageIndex=2
What if Logos added a LOCAL sync to mobile device commend that did all of the work on your computer without going through the Logos servers? Personally, I wouldn't prefer that solution. There aren't many apps that work that way on iOS, and only "geeks" would really know what to do. IMO, I think working with dropbox and/or iCloud is the way to go.
Please review http://community.logos.com/forums/p/72434/504321.aspx#504321
"There aren't many apps that work that way on iOS, and only "geeks" would really know what to do""
what if the instructions were: plug in mobile device to USB port; start Logos; in the command box enter 'Sync USB'; with Logos recognizing your device type? - no geeks needed [except at Logos dev.]
""Personally, I wouldn't prefer that solution"" You and X million other Logos users with or planing to get mobile devices including me. But what if there is a blocking issue? [server issues?; copyright issues?] Do we say ""that way or no way"" or do we say ""but if it can not be that way what about ----""
""There aren't many apps that work that way on iOS,"" that means that there is at least one.
And Logos does not want to do it that way [they want PBB to sync just like notes [etc.] ] but can we leave options open?
What are we asking? 'Please use the cloud to get PBB on my mobile' OR 'Please get PBB on my mobile' ?
Yes. We are actively working on this. (Sorry, no date predictions available...)
W00T! [:)] (Can't [I'll have to] wait!)
Thank you Bob.
Logos has made Personal Books on mobile devices far more complicated than it needs to be. One should be able to sync personal books simply through iTunes. It shouldn't really involve having them on Logos servers. Dozens of other apps allow users to add books similarly - even Apple's iBooks, for goodness sake.
It is time Logos got this done. No, it is past time.
Are there plans to support reading Personal Books on iOS? Thank you. Yes. We are actively working on this. (Sorry, no date predictions available...)
Thank you Bob for the hope. I would encourage you to give it a priority since any resources in the minor languages are possible only in the PBB way. Having them on all the platforms is a must.
Is there an update RE: Reading Personal Books on iOS?
Thanx,
Bob Diebel
It is currently on hold as per https://community.logos.com/forums/p/126859/848584.aspx#848584
Yeah, when I read what Bob said at that link when he first posted it, I gave up all hope for this feature. I was holding my breath for a long time hoping for Personal Books to come to iOS... but not anymore. I've moved on. Sadly.
right now, based on present use cases and number of users, it's at the very bottom of our priority list.
Question: it you have two [or more] text editing programs on an iOS device can they all edit the same file or can they only edit files loaded by iTunes into the sandbox of the edit program assigned to the file? [[that is can file A be used by X, Y, and Z. or can X only use files given to X by iTunes and Y only use files given to Y by iTunes. and the same for Z]] [[and Yes, I know that Logos indexing is not done on the mobile device]]
