How is this still not a feature on the mobile apps in 2021? I have read posts from 2014 and before suggesting that the feature was right around the corner, in beta testing even. Any word on this?
Greetings Mason,
As I understand it there is little hope of personal books coming to the mobile app until a way can be found to make sure that the books are really personal not scanned reproductions of copyrighted material.
Again, as I understand it, Faithlife, perhaps a little naïvely, imagined the personal books would be made up from notes or even original writing, however, it seems that quite a lot were made from copyright material.
I imagine that there are some legal implications if Faithlife hosts and distributes such material on its servers.
Having said that I'm sure that if you can think of a way through the conundrum they will be very glad to hear from you :-)
Thanks for the info Mike. I definitely understand their hesitation from that point of view.
I am just desperate for a way to get inline bible verses with my personal books. As someone who prefers to look up each provided passage it takes forever to read my non logos books. Was excited to load up my non logos books to read on my iPad, yet I can only do so on my desktop, which is not conducive to longer reading sessions.
Unfortunately, I don't have a solution to the issue you described, hopefully one can be found soon.
Actually, I do but few would like it.
1. Have folk sign up for a personal book compact.
2. Have each uploaded book go through an algorithm to detect substantial copyright material.
3. If no copyright infringements then allow through.
4. If copyright infringements found invoke the compact which would allow Faithlife to purchase the resource from either their own stock or another supplier. Add a 20% handling fee and charge the registered credit card.
Some folks would have no problem with this - others?
FWIW, Bob listed a large number of reasons why we weren't (and still aren't) developing PBB on Mobile, but copyrighted works wasn't mentioned till the 12th paragraph: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/126859/848584.aspx#848584
It's a concern, but it's not the primary reason we're not working on this.
Thanks, Bradley, I've just marked Bob's post as a favourite. Always good to read it through again.
So this is still the stance 4+ years on from this response?
I am trying to find an intuitive way to read my books, that Logos doesn't offer, with the convenience of an inline bible. If Logos were to offer these books in the store I would gladly purchase them.
Point being, should I just move on from the idea that I can have continuity between my desktop and iOS apps?
