E-books to Logos

I'm sure there are already a plethora of forums for this. Unfortunately, my search results for said topic are not satisfactory for me, so if someone could please just direct me that way, I would be very grateful. Basically, I am looking for an easy way, which I am willing to pay for, to turn my iBooks and Kindle books into Logos books. Thank you.

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Jan Krohn

I did create a tool to help with the conversion from Kindle to Logos some months back:

https://community.logos.com/forums/p/133985/875844.aspx#875844

It's still has several glitches, but definitely speeds up the process compared to doing it all manually...

Brother Mark

Since we don't know which methods you've tried and discarded, let me suggest Calibre to convert all ebook formats into a .docx format that you can build into personal books for Logos. It works for many of us, and I've converted a "bunch" of books for my own library.

AF69

Will the Logos software incorporate these e-books into its tools and guides?

Robert M. Warren

Will the Logos software incorporate these e-books into its tools and guides?

Alexander:

That depends on how much work you want to devote to the Word docx. For example, if it's a commentary, you'll likely want to tag it with bible milestones and compile it as type "Bible Commentary". The type Bible Commentary will enable the resource to appear in a Passage Guide for an appropriate bible reference. The bible milestones will create a Bible index which enables the commentary to be put in a Link Set with a bible and will scroll with it and enable navigation by way of the reference box.

Other milestones will enable other various functionality. See this wiki page: https://wiki.logos.com/Personal_Books

Also, a number of us will be happy to answer specific questions you have during the process.

JT (alabama24)

Will the Logos software incorporate these e-books into its tools and guides?

Depends on what you mean.

For clarification: Faithlife has no intent for you to be able to import books from other sources into Logos. They have a tool called the "personal book builder" tool which allows you to create personal books using Microsoft Word (.docx) file format. There are a number of things you can do with personal books to increase their functionality, but those things take a lot of work. A "basic" personal book will auto hyperlink standard bible references (i.e. John 3:16) for you. If your book uses various heading styles, it may also create a TOC automatically. A basic personal book is similar in quality to a Vyrso edition resource in Logos. As mentioned, however, you can add more functionality if you want to put in the work. You cannot, however, make your own "Logos edition" resource, which would be necessary to gain full access to all tools & guides.

AF69

Okay, thank you for the information.

You guys seem to be pretty savvy on Logos, maybe you can help me out with this (the customer tech support guys can't seem to figure it out).

I have been trying to go through course LT271, learn to use Logos by studying Jonah 1, but more than half the time I can't get the videos to come up. This isn't a networking or hardware issue...the error I get is that it simply cannot find the video.

Anybody have anything similar? I tried "downloading all media" but it wouldn't work.

Maybe to get around this altogether: I finished the "quickstart" videos that logos provides, and want to take the 'next' step in delving deeper into my studies using logos. What is the next, most logical step to do that?

Joshua Ellis

Since we don't know which methods you've tried and discarded, let me suggest Calibre to convert all ebook formats into a .docx format that you can build into personal books for Logos. It works for many of us, and I've converted a "bunch" of books for my own library.

Recently I've used pandoc (https://pandoc.org) for epub-to-word conversion. In general, I find its docx output better than Calibre's. Not always, but in general. Pandoc does not support mobi, though, so then the route is mobi -> epub (Calibre), then epub -> docx (pandoc). Still lots of cleanup left for linking and tagging, but a well-formatted epub comes across with H1..Hn styles intact, fewer image glitches, etc.

Mike Orren

Hi there — N00B Logos user here, so please forgive if this is the wrong place to ask...

I found this conversation as I'm looking for a way to get my theology texts on Kindle into Logos as a Personal Book.

Things seem to have evolved since this convo, and I can't find one more recent. Specifically, MacOS > Calibre is a no-go even with the various copy protection plugins.

I'm hoping someone can share some more updated info on the topic.

Thanks!

NB.Mick

Hi there — N00B Logos user here, so please forgive if this is the wrong place to ask...

I found this conversation as I'm looking for a way to get my theology texts on Kindle into Logos as a Personal Book.

Things seem to have evolved since this convo

Hello Mike and welcome to the Logos forums!

Actually things haven't changed much in the Logos PB area for years. It's still the same: you need to convert whatever format you have into MS Word docx, then compile with the Logos PB tool. Personal books still will work on any of your Logos desktop machines, but not on mobile. You may easily use Libre Office if you don't do Microsoft, but it's still docx format you need to have. Logos can't read mobi, epub or pdf.

I can't say anything about MacOS and whatever applications work there or not, I'm afraid.