Biblia.com beta is live!

"Biblia.com is your place for Bible study online. Part of a family of services from Logos Bible Software, it offers free access to a collection of Bibles and Bible reference works, with an easy user interface and powerful search engine."

The beta version is live now at http://www.biblia.com.

Biblia represents a change in direction from the "beta" version of http://library.logos.com?beta=true, with a design made for the web, not transplanted from desktop software. Eventually we see it as a replacement for http://bible.logos.com as well. (Both of these other sites will remain live for the indefinite future, though.)

If you sign in to Biblia.com with your Logos.com account you'll find much of your library already available. In coming weeks and months you'll find new features and unique content here as well.

Logos is preparing for a future of more social interaction around Bible study -- shared notes, reading the Bible in community, small group networks, etc. Our plan is that Biblia.com can be a portal to content (published and user-created) for users who don't yet use desktop Bible software, or who need web-based access to complement their primarily mobile (iPhone/iPad, etc.) use.

We'd love to hear your thoughts, as well as bug reports and feedback on various machines and browsers.

Thanks!

-- Bob

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Lynden O. Williams

Thanks Bob, but the link is broken.

Terry Poperszky

Thanks Bob, but the link is broken.

Type the address in instead of clicking on the link and it will come up for you.

George Somsel

If you sign in to Biblia.com with your Logos.com account you'll find much of your library already available. In coming weeks and months you'll find new features and unique content here as well.

So you're determined to go the cloud route ?

Terry Poperszky

e'd love to hear your thoughts, as well as bug reports and feedback on various machines and browsers.

THe experience on my iPad was less than effective, running it on my MBP and Safari 5 it is nice and snappy.

Observation:

The split view only seems to accept bibles on the left and commentaries on the right. I will more often have two bibles open, than a commentary and a bible.

The search feature is nice and quick, but there is no way that I can see to refine the search to a smaller subset of a bible (OT, NT, Gospels etc.)

MJ. Smith

So you're determined to go the cloud route ?

I think this has been a given for a long time. This basic a design decision rarely changes this far into development; I would be very concerned if it did change. However, until we see user-developed materials on Biblia.com we don't know the shape of this portion of "cloud" computing. Don't read too much or too little into this announcement.

Terry Poperszky

Our plan is that Biblia.com can be a portal to content (published and user-created) for users who don't yet use desktop Bible software, or who need web-based access to complement their primarily mobile (iPhone/iPad, etc.) use.

However, until we see user-developed materials on Biblia.com we don't know the shape of this portion of "cloud" computing. Don't read too much or too little into this announcement

IMHO, Cloud computing as a complement to a desktop is the best of both worlds.

tjebme

Tried to go from Genesis to James in the Bible, but it kept reverting to Genesis. Unable to scroll through available commentaries or the selected commentary. I'm using my iPad. Looks interesting.

Bryan Smith

Sorry guys, we don't have the site working correctly in mobile safari yet. Hopefully it's not too far off, but we have a lot to do at the moment

Todd Phillips

Tried scrolling through a commentary (NIGTC Philippians) and sometimes the text wouldn't appear or only a line or two would.

Also, the right-hand side entry field didn't seem to work. I tried a bible reference in a commentary and a topic in a dictionary and neither worked.

This was in Firefox 3.6

MJ. Smith

IMHO, Cloud computing as a complement to a desktop is the best of both worlds.

I agree.

Mark Smith

Also, the right-hand side entry field didn't seem to work. I tried a bible reference in a commentary and a topic in a dictionary and neither worked.

Am also in FF 3.6 and the same behavior. The navigation box doesn't work on the RHS. When scrolling it sometimes displays the reference and other times the page number. Better to stick with the reference style that was entered into the box.

David Housholder

Observation:

The split view only seems to accept bibles on the left and commentaries on the right. I will more often have two bibles open, than a commentary and a bible.

Try typing a Bible reference into the search box at the top of the right frame. I did that thinking I'd come to that reference in the commentary displayed and instead it opened a second Bible window.

Dave Housholder

Mark Smith

Try typing a Bible reference into the search box at the top of the right frame. I did that thinking I'd come to that reference in the commentary displayed and instead it opened a second Bible window.

When I first opened up Biblia tonight I noticed that it did this (a second copy of NASB). After pulling in a commentary I can no longer get a Bible in that RH pane.

Mark Smith

I closed Biblia and reopened it. On the left was the NASB opened to Genesis 1:1. At first the RH pane was blank. In a moment the NICNT volume on Matthew opened to the title page:

I then typed Matthew 2 in the reference box of the commentary:

Hitting Enter this is what I got:

Clicking on the arrow for the drop-down list on the RH panel opened the normal list of commentaries:

I selected the one on Matthew and it opened again to the title page. I typed Matthew 1 in the reference box, hit enter, and nothing happened. It would now not respond to entries in the reference box.

I now scrolled in the commentary to Page xii, reentered Matthew 1, hit enter, and the reference box showed Page v briefly while the panel went blank, then it went back to Page xii. Other references produced the same result.

It isn't working.