OT This is what I want my Logos/Verbum library to feel like

The Tripitaka Koreana

It is the world's most comprehensive and oldest intact version of Buddhist canon in Hanja script, with no known errors or errata in the 52,330,152 characters which are organized in over 1496 titles and 6568 volumes. - 13th century wood blocks

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Justin Gatlin

I would settle for "no...errata," but this is pretty neat.

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798549#Comment_798549

When I read the title "OT This is what I want my Logos/Verbum library to feel like" and saw the photo all I could think of was "dusty?". [:)]

No known errors? Amazing. Makes me wonder how much it is studied compared to the Bible.

(‾◡◝)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798594#Comment_798594

I don't know, MJ, the search engine looks like he is relatively slow ... furthermore, one wonders how long it would take to perform a complete re-index. [;)]

(but those wooden shelves are fantastic!)

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798636#Comment_798636

I don't know, MJ, the search engine looks like he is relatively slow ...

True story: The Yale library has an excellent edition of the Tibetan Tripitika (Tengyur and Kangyur). In the 70's, the way to get copies of it was not through a librarian but through a landromat whose owner was Tibetan ... now that's an obscure search engine with no known reindexing capabilities. [:O]

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798594#Comment_798594

Makes me wonder how much it is studied compared to the Bible.

I don't know but have you heard of a Christian world-wide online recitation of a book of the Bible? That's happened for the Tibetan Buddhist texts. Admittedly the first Resounding only drew about 800 people but ...

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798690#Comment_798690

I don't know but have you heard of a Christian world-wide online recitation of a book of the Bible? That's happened for the Tibetan Buddhist texts.

No I have not.

Admittedly the first Resounding only drew about 800 people but ...

Now that doesn't surprise me.

Matthew

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798695#Comment_798695

Maybe as virtual reality technology improves we will one day be able to take VR tours through our digital libraries - and be able to pick out whatever kinds of bookshelves we want! Not sure there would be any practical benefit to being able to do that, but it sure would be fun, not to mention a great marketing tool. Prospective customers could visually see the size of the various potential libraries they could buy. Current customers could have spots on their shelves reserved for missing volumes in various sets of books. Users could have a "wish list bookshelf." A VR equivalent of the website would let users actually browse bookshelves, pick up, and flip through books that are on sale. Think how many more books might be sold if users could "see" them first and preview how good they would look on their shelves! Won't happen anytime soon, but I don't see any reason something like that couldn't eventually happen. Would give a whole new meaning to digital hoarding!

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798698#Comment_798698

I like it Mattthew - together with a virtual reality helmet to put us in our favorite library or even better, the library in which particular manuscripts are held!

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798698#Comment_798698

Maybe as virtual reality technology improves we will one day be able to take VR tours through our digital libraries - and be able to pick out whatever kinds of bookshelves we want! Not sure there would be any practical benefit to being able to do that, but it sure would be fun, not to mention a great marketing tool. Prospective customers could visually see the size of the various potential libraries they could buy. Current customers could have spots on their shelves reserved for missing volumes in various sets of books. Users could have a "wish list bookshelf." A VR equivalent of the website would let users actually browse bookshelves, pick up, and flip through books that are on sale. Think how many more books might be sold if users could "see" them first and preview how good they would look on their shelves! Won't happen anytime soon, but I don't see any reason something like that couldn't eventually happen. Would give a whole new meaning to digital hoarding!

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Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798636#Comment_798636

I don't know, MJ, the search engine looks like he is relatively slow ...

GOOD ONE!

Average Joe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798698#Comment_798698

Maybe as virtual reality technology improves we will one day be able to take VR tours through our digital libraries - and be able to pick out whatever kinds of bookshelves we want! Not sure there would be any practical benefit to being able to do that, but it sure would be fun, not to mention a great marketing tool. Prospective customers could visually see the size of the various potential libraries they could buy. Current customers could have spots on their shelves reserved for missing volumes in various sets of books. Users could have a "wish list bookshelf." A VR equivalent of the website would let users actually browse bookshelves, pick up, and flip through books that are on sale. Think how many more books might be sold if users could "see" them first and preview how good they would look on their shelves! Won't happen anytime soon, but I don't see any reason something like that couldn't eventually happen. Would give a whole new meaning to digital hoarding!

That's a great idea! I would love to see that.

danwdoo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/798699#Comment_798699

This is exactly the kind of thing Microsoft's Hololense will excel at. Virtual scrolls, tablets and other ancient works at your fingertips