The Academic Feature Set looks rather non-Academic
At first glance I'm a bit disappointed in the Academic feature upgrade. It's missing a lot of the new features that seem more academically oriented. For example, why wouldn't you include the NRSVue reverse interlinear in the Academic feature upgrade??!! It's literally the bible of the academy. The LSB and REB RIs should probably be included as well.
And perhaps this was just an oversight but why aren't the Quickstart Videos included? Academics don't need any training either I guess.
Perhaps my opinion will change as I explore the new features and upgrades more, but that's my first reaction to the feature upgrade packages.
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Brian W. Davidson said:
Does an NRSVue reverse interlinear exist? I was looking for that recently.
I'm not sure if it exists now or if it's planned, but you can certainly buy it now.
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I'm pretty much set on the Verbum Academic Pro. Good set of Oxfords plus NRSVue RI/future.
I haven't a clue what's going on in Verbum 10 Biblicum; it's 5x the price and considerably less 'anything' for what I have.
Anyway, I got the 30% off plus the $70 recent purchaser discount for a net approx 45% total discount.
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Kiyah said:DMB said:
Anyway, I got the 30% off plus the $70 recent purchaser discount for a net approx 45% total discount.
How does the recent purchaser discount work? Is it applied in your cart?
I've no idea. When I did my Verbum A-Pro, the cart was just an A-Pro 30% off. Then I added Baylor just to see if anything happened (nothing of course). So I deleted Baylor. Then it gave me the $70 discount (extra line on the cart panel). Sure enough, the invoice reflects it. So??
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I got the Academic Feature upgrade... and only realized later that it doesn't include the Print Catalog Library which I thought was the most valuable feature I would use.
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Mark Hoffman said:
I got the Academic Feature upgrade... and only realized later that it doesn't include the Print Catalog Library which I thought was the most valuable feature I would use.
Academic didn't look much better than Starter to me. That's a bummer. They had been doing so well with the Academic base packages and Academic feature sets but they've skimped this time.
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It is also kind of odd that things like "IVP Bible Background Commentary" and concise lexica are featured in an academic package. Especially to someone who has most of the important truly academic resources from earlier purchases, most of the new stuff may appear academically light.
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I thought the same thing. I understand if it offers quality resources that I already own because I have a very good library built up from over the years, but I was surprised about the IVP BBC. Don't get me wrong. It's a great resource, but it's not on par with previous packages.
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Indeed. I didn't mean to criticize the resource. It looks like a fine one, but it's just not very academic -- whatever that means. [:)]
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I was referring to the feature set upgrade, the features themselves, not the books in the base packages.
With Logos 9, the academic feature set was a pretty good way to get some of the new features more affordably because they left out stuff that would be more geared toward lay people and focused on stuff more useful to academic settings. This time it seems like the academic feature doesn't get any of the new features. The lack of inclusion even of some of the interlinears for bibles that academics would use is disappointing. Who needs the Complete Jewish Bible in seminary? And only the Old Testament at that. They didn't even include the NT interlinear for the CJB.
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Kiyah said:
With Logos 9, the academic feature set was a pretty good
Not disagreeing, just discussing. But I passed on the L9 features; 'historically' I kept my features up to date. And I guess they showed up in the V10 Academic Pro, along with some other Lexham stuff.
I guess I'm featured out; the books (academic) now are my guiding light. I will admit for academic Logosia, the two key L10 features (print library and translation) are up there in the 'revolutionary' status, looking at digital publishing in general, and religious sharing specifically. I'm now wondering about the huge German and French religious libraries.
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DMB said:
I'm now wondering about the huge German
English Verbum packages include a large German commentary ... I suspect that indicates the direction things will go. Now if the storefronts reflect this new reality ...
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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