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1) There are a number of resources I'd like to read front-to-back. It would be nice to have a notes file or reading list where I could put the titles of those resources. They would be clickable so I could open them. It would also show my progress in the book and allow me to delete it from the list after I'd read it.

2) I have a number of .pdf files. Most are journal articles and monographs. I'd like to be able to add them to my Logos library so they would be searchable inside Logos.

3) The same goes for podcasts. Recently, your Dr. Heiser had an excellent podcast on 1 Cor 11:13-15. It would be nice to have that show up in search results as well.

Thanks for listening.

Greg

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Justin Gatlin

1) There are a number of resources I'd like to read front-to-back. It would be nice to have a notes file or reading list where I could put the titles of those resources. They would be clickable so I could open them. It would also show my progress in the book and allow me to delete it from the list after I'd read it.

This is possible. Make a notes file, then go to the book you want to read. Press CTRL+ALT+C on Windows, then make a hyperlink to that location in the Note file, with the name of the book as the URL.

What most of us do is a little different. Add a custom tag to each book you want to read through "toread". Then, in the library pane, type "tag:toread" where you would normally type a title. When you're done, change the tag to "read" (past tense) or delete it entirely.

[quote]2) I have a number of .pdf files. Most are journal articles and monographs. I'd like to be able to add them to my Logos library so they would be searchable inside Logos.

There are lots of difficulties with OCR that would make this an expensive and unlikely addition (it would be hard to develop and would undermine the sale of Public Domain books). But there are a number of software utilities you can use to convert PDF to docx with reasonable accuracy. If you import these as personal books, they will be searchable. The Wiki has a lot of information on the Personal Book Builder.

[quote]3) The same goes for podcasts. Recently, your Dr. Heiser had an excellent podcast on 1 Cor 11:13-15. It would be nice to have that show up in search results as well.

Thanks for listening.

Greg

Again, if you have a transcript, you can import it as a personal book and include a hyperlink to the audio file. Logos has no good way to take the words of podcasts and make them into text (in fact, no software is consistently good at this).

MJ. Smith

2) I have a number of .pdf files. Most are journal articles and monographs. I'd like to be able to add them to my Logos library so they would be searchable inside Logos.

If they are pdf text files you can convert them to .docx files and treat them as personal books. If, however, they are pdf image files then, as Justin says, they would have to be running through an OCR program to convert to .docx which may lead to unsatisfactory results.

John Goodman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/802958#Comment_802958

Since Logos is not in the business of pdf library management I can recommend pdfScanner for mac which does a tidy job of scan, crop, deskew and ocr all in one. (I've found nothing to compare with the low price, simplicity and power of this app. The developer is very approachable too.) I then use Sente for all pdfs which lets me do with pdfs many of the things logos lets me do with ebooks.