Reading plans for textbooks

Dave Thawley

Hi

I love the idea of setting up reading plans for my books. It keeps me focused and allows me to progress though them in a steady way. The deficit in this though is that the plan cuts the book up into pages and the pages will always finish half way though a sentence. Would be be possible for the reading plan Wizard to generate the plan and then compare the plan to the sub-headings in a book and move the start of reading segments to the start of sub-headings ? Alternative could you add a feature that allows a user to drag and drop the start point of a reading segment so that we could go though and align the breaks in a more user friendly way so we can finish at convenient breaks:-)

Thanks 

James Taylor

This has been asked many times, but no real progress. However, I have an imperfect work around here.

Dave Thawley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/804580#Comment_804580

James Taylor said:

This has been asked many times, but no real progress. However, I have an imperfect work around here.

Thanks very much for taking the time to write :-) I'll definitely follow the link and have a look at your solution. Its a real shame this isn't a little better and I'm sure its not that difficult to do.

Thanks

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/804630#Comment_804630

DAVE THAWLEY said:

Its a real shame this isn't a little better and I'm sure its not that difficult to do.

Well, Logos tried a solution that followed headings instead of pages, but there was a bug in it (basically showing an empty reading for a day when a lower-level heading directly followed after the higher level heading, as they often do) and thus was de-implemented and sent back to the devs to fix - and there it still is. So it doesn't seem to be "not that difficult". 

Custom Reading plans allow doing that with selections - it's 100% manual and thus tedious, but you can use that to build your own plan exactly as you want it.

Dave Thawley

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/804633#Comment_804633

NB.Mick said:

Custom Reading plans allow doing that with selections - it's 100% manual and thus tedious, but you can use that to build your own plan exactly as you want it.

Thanks for this info and advice. I've had a look at custom plans and I see what you mean so thanks for the tip. Its a shame we can't just manually move the breaks after Logos has created them to form a custom reading plan based on the one Logos created. Oh well, looks like we have what we have. its a shame because the software is so powerful this should be in it.

Thanks