Request for improvements to the K-W Book of Concord in Logos

Ken McGuire
Ken McGuire Member Posts: 2,074 ✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

The standard English translation of the Book of Concord is the Kolb-Wengert. I am glad that it is in Logos, and is featured in every Lutheran base package. I have owned it ever since I bought it as a separate CD for Libronix.

But the Logos edition of it has been problematic. It has improved greatly since I called it "an embarrassment". The tagging inconsistencies have been fixed. In addition, you have added the paragraph numbers of the print edition. Because of all these improvements, it has replaced my hard copy in my use, since it is much more convenient to bring an Amazon Fire 10 with it, and many other key texts just about everywhere instead of the print version. Thank you for the work over the years to make this practical.

When I go over the Concordance report for it, I do see it is quite good at linking to the American Edition of Luther's Works. But it is missing everything else that makes Logos Research Editions useful. I own four editions of the Book of Concord in Logos, and this edition - the most modern academic one - is the one with the least non-biblical reference links according to the Concordance. This in spite of the notes referencing, for example St. Thomas STh. 33 times according to a text search - with no links. The Print version references the Fathers of the Church with page numbers 10 times - but no links in your edition. The Print version references ANF 21, and  NPNF 77 times - again with no links. MPG 45, and MPL 118 times - and while full Migne is not in Logos, this will give an example of how often Patristic works are referenced. And yet none of these references are tagged with any Logos datatype or resource.

I do know that tagging can be a never ending job. But if I am able to pull up this information using simple searches, automatic tagging should be able to catch this too.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,397

    bumping for attention which may lead to a response 11

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  • Tom
    Tom Member Posts: 1,913

    Ken McGuire said:

    When I go over the Concordance report for it, I do see it is quite good at linking to the American Edition of Luther's Works. But it is missing everything else that makes Logos Research Editions useful. I own four editions of the Book of Concord in Logos, and this edition - the most modern academic one - is the one with the least non-biblical reference links according to the Concordance. This in spite of the notes referencing, for example St. Thomas STh. 33 times according to a text search - with no links. The Print version references the Fathers of the Church with page numbers 10 times - but no links in your edition. The Print version references ANF 21, and  NPNF 77 times - again with no links. MPG 45, and MPL 118 times - and while full Migne is not in Logos, this will give an example of how often Patristic works are referenced. And yet none of these references are tagged with any Logos datatype or resource.

    .  Please update this :) 

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