How do you read your books in LOGOS for all their worth? Suggestions please
How many books in Logos have you completely read?
Yes reading plans are good
Any more suggestion?
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Ive only had Logos a short while and I've read 5 or 6 volumes all the way through but many many more partly read. I tend to have separate layouts for each book I'm reading cover to cover now which contains anything else I use while reading the book.If I plan to go mobile I just drop the book page into favorites and it appears on my phone :-)
I thought I had a great idea and each time I read a book I tag it for it's own collection with "read". In practice it's easy to remember with reading plans, but it's not so easy when I have no plan and I am working through books. The Mobile Ed stuff also causes me to read through books that I do not tag. In the collection I currently have 68 resources I have read, but there are others I have also read and not tagged.
I have 4 reading plans set up doing about 10 pages from each book, each working day - one is working through Luther's Works and I am up to Vol 16 there, the 2nd plan is normally another series (currently on the 7th and last volume of the Library of Christian Worship), and the other 2 tend to be "shorter" standalone topics. This approach normally means I get about 40 to 50 books a year read completely in Logos - not counting devotional books, and journals
I don't tag my books (I have better things to do with my time), but when I'm reading through a book I leave it open to where I left off so that. when I open it again and see that I'm at the end, I know that it's complete.
Maybe about 50 or so. Only 4350 more to go... [:P]
I don't tag my books as read, so I can't say for sure.
Some books are mainly for reference, but some of those are also worth reading from first to last page (such as the Baker Encyclopedia of Apologetics, which I'm currently working through).
I have a Word document with ideas what to read next, ordered by very broad categorization (just 5 categories or so). That's easier to maintain than a complex tagging system.
A camel never forgets the location of the water source. Some professors never forget what they have read.
But I tend to forget which books I have read, what the books said, and even I can't remember which books I've bought.
In the mytag field I use something like ReadSlow (imperative form) and ReadDone, and something like "GlossAgain in 2022". In that way I can keep track of my Logos library and its content.
Hi Glenn
How do you create a reading Plan with Pages? I just find all Passages
I tag all my books that have the best potential to be a good read as BooksToRead-(topic). Currently I have 761 with these tags. Having identified the topic it easily allows me to sort the best ones when needed.
I use the tag BooksReading for ones that I have downloaded on my iPad to be able to read when I don't have internet acces and I continually work my way through these. I have 171 with this tag now.
Once finished the books receive a tag BooksFinished. I only have 205 on this list right now and I read several of these each month. For example, I was away this past weekend for a few days and read two more.
I tend to use reading plans for my morning devotional and Bible reading times. For instance, I'm reading Calvin's Institutes that way in 2016.
Not sure this is the best way but this is what I do: I open the book and see the last page (for books that have large indices, etc that are included in the Page numbering I then specify the Page Range but that hasn't happened that often) - so if the book is 357 pages - I then set the Reading Plan to use 36 sessions (thus approx 10 pages) - I then look at the page selections that have been made, and say I've overlooked the preface etc that has Roman numbering (prior to 1) or some times there can some page ranges that seem a little large (or small), I then edit the Reading Plan and tweak the number of sessions.
Admittedly this does get "breaks" in the middle of paragraphs, but it takes too much time to go through and put manual ranges in for each day - so I find it works for me, and I can easily read a bit ahead to finish an idea or argument...
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thanks Glenn great help :-)
Each year, I take a study leave of a couple of weeks to go through a few books on Logos (usually, several commentaries on a Bible book that I want to get to know better). I download them to the Logos Bible app on my Kindle to read, as that's a much friendlier medium for reading than is my laptop.
In the Bible app on my Kindle (Fire), I highlight & annotate to my heart's content.
I use the reading plan to read through the Bible twice a year. I use another reading plan to read through the Revised Common Lectionary. When I want to read through a book, I set up a reading plan that lasts for about two weeks, sometimes a month. Currently, I am reading through the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Works (15 volumes). I am reading through Discipleship (known before as The Cost of Discipleship). I set up the reading plan for each book. While I read, I create a note file for each book. I highlight and write my thoughts in the note file. Then I write a book review and post it on my website. I read from a variety of sources, not just in Logos.
Within favorites I have a few folders set up for stuff I want to read and stuff I've read. I can easily go back to the books I've already read. I also keep notes on major themes so all the books I've read are linked to notes somewhere in my system :-)
I download books that I intend to read from cover to cover - like a "real book" - to my tablet. While I love using my desktop computer for research and writing papers, I much prefer to use a tablet for reading.
How do you read your books in LOGOS for all their worth?
One thing I would suggest is to create a highlight palette that is customized to demarcations you already use (or their digital/logos facsimile of those demarcations, at least). Once you do so, I would change the place your highlights go (by selecting "Resource Specific Note File" in the palette's "Save in" option). If you use the default highlight palettes, then I would change the settings to save in the "Resource Specific Note File," too. This will make every highlight you make go to this specific file for the specific resource you're studying, etc. I wish I knew about this feature when I first started using the highlights, etc. myself.
With that, I would also keep the resourcs specific note file open while reading the book it corresponds with. This will enable you to select a sentence, etc. and add a note to this file (if you do not want to use one of your highlighting styles) from its text. With the book and this file open all you have to do is highlight what you want to note, right click and go all the down to the "Add note to _BOOKNAME_" file (on the bottom left side of your right click window option). When you do so Logos will switch to that panel/tab/window (however you have it laid out) and you can add your note, name your note, even apply highlight colors, etc.
Along with this I'd encourage you to take advantage of the highlight style shortcut keys, too. Highlights styles you know you will use a lot should have priority for the keys you are most familiar with, or are the most comfortable for mouse/keyboard interaction (if that makes sense).
In regards to notes, I would develop a system that helps in categorizing all your notes for future use. This may take more thinking out, but one way may be by using the tagging system and/or the labeling system (found w/in the individual note file(s)). I haven't implemented this myself yet because I have years worth of notes that I had not done any of the above and just feel a bit behind the 8 ball on it. But the longer I wait/hesitate the more I kick myself for not doing it.
Wow...I'm not sure on the number for this one. I've read enough to know I wish some of these features to keep your annotations, notes and highlights organized, etc. were in place back in L4 (or if they were there, that I knew about them and put them to use).
I make a layout for a book that I am reading through, and add that layout to the shortcut bar. I'll make notes files per resource if I am going to be adding annotations. If I'm just doing highlighting/numbering in the book, I'll use my main highlights palette notes file for that. I've found the use of hotkeys for different highlighting styles to be a great timesaver. I like having multiple copies of the book I'm reading open. I can review previous material/track down references in the second copy while keeping my main reading copy at the current location. I've been making concordances using the Logos Now/Verbum Now feature, if a book doesn't include an index. The concordance can be used during a pre-reading/skim reading of the book prior to more intensive reading, and it can also be used to investigate particular terms which might be unfamiliar, or central to the arguments of the author, or both.
I like having multiple copies of the book I'm reading open. I can review previous material/track down references in the second copy while keeping my main reading copy at the current location
Good idea!!
I've been making concordances using the Logos Now/Verbum Now feature, if a book doesn't include an index. The concordance can be used during a pre-reading/skim reading of the book prior to more intensive reading, and it can also be used to investigate particular terms which might be unfamiliar, or central to the arguments of the author, or both.
This sounds interesting -- would love to "see" this. Can you post a screen shot of what you're talking about? I'm not a Logos Now user (yet?).
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