Back to school sale
Paul Caneparo
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https://www.logos.com/back-to-school
Just be careful. Despite the banner saying Shop now through September 1, the Zondervan offers at $8.99 are only until August 9. These are the best deals in terms of discount. The other deals are more like 25% which don't normally do it for me these days, give I own most books I want and books are generally only in my wishlist awaiting big discounts.
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https://www.ivpress.com/ebook-sale?utm_source=Newsletters&utm_campaign=Aug24-ebook-teaser&utm_medium=email Will we see the IVP sale on the Black Bible Dictionaries?
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Christian Alexander said:
Will we see the IVP sale on the Black Bible Dictionaries?
No. Those have not been produced as eBoooks but as Logos editions.
Have joy in the Lord!
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I understand these are ebooks. Why would Logos lose a sale to get it for the competitor?
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Christian Alexander said:
I understand these are ebooks. Why would Logos lose a sale to get it for the competitor?
These are not eBooks in the Logos universe.
Have joy in the Lord!
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OK so my question is this now. When will there be a sale on these black dictionaries in the Logos universe?
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Logos does have the research editions of these on sale right now, at least the two I looked up. If you're not interested in having a Logos research edition which will interact with your other Logos resources/features, then the lower price for the ebook direct from IVP will be your best price. The content of the two will be the same, but the functionality will be quite different.
IVP having a sale on their ebooks doesn't equate to Logos having to price their research editions similarly.
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Paul Caneparo said:
Just be careful ....
https://www.logos.com/product/364097/hebrew-english-dictionary-and-lexicon-pack-small $35.08 (40% off)
https://www.logos.com/product/364096/hebrew-english-dictionary-and-lexicon-pack-large $27.40 (50% off)
Both were a single book unowned (Carta's Hebrew Etymological Dictionary). Buying 'large' was cheaper than small!
Thank you, Logos!
Added:
Well, I ordered this, plus a discourse volume. Then, I went to get my books on Logos, only to discover I already owned the Carta volume! So, I called in a refund for both ... now I'm missing the Carta volume I already had. I give up ... no more Logos.com.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Thanks Kevin and DMB. I echo both of you. I have the 1st edition of Dictionary of Paul and His Letters in Logos universe. I want the 2nd edition to mainly compare the two. Thus I do not think I will need it as a Logos Research Edition. I could be wrong. Has there been a case to where two different editions were needed by the users in Logos as a research edition? I want to use both of them in my research and analysis.
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Christian Alexander said:
Thanks Kevin and DMB. I echo both of you. I have the 1st edition of Dictionary of Paul and His Letters in Logos universe. I want the 2nd edition to mainly compare the two. Thus I do not think I will need it as a Logos Research Edition. I could be wrong. Has there been a case to where two different editions were needed by the users in Logos as a research edition? I want to use both of them in my research and analysis.
Tagging is the primary feature that sets Research editions apart. What a user wants as a research edition will depend on that users individual needs/wants.My guess is that if you have the first edition, that would cover your needs. If you find the second edition to be particularly helpful, however, you may consider purchasing that as well. No one knows your individual needs better than you.
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Paul Caneparo said:
the Zondervan offers at $8.99 are only until August 9. These are the best deals in terms of discount.
Agreed, here's a link to show all of those first:
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Some pretty good sales there. Time to snatch away!
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I always assumed the tagging was what set them apart from ebooks. I am on a fixed income so I guess the ebook will be the way to go. Thanks Aaron for your input.
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Christian Alexander said:
I always assumed the tagging was what set them apart from ebooks.
Yes you are right, but there's more to the story. Actually there are at least five edition: things in Logos and it helps to differentiate them.
- Logos Research editions: presumably full tagging of everything that is precisely linkable and existing in the Logos store at the time of production. May have actual datatype indexes and be of any of the Logos types, have subjects in the library etc.
- Logos Reader editions: usually only bible text tagging and book-internal tagging. Those tags as well as the formatting have been looked over manually, but this takes much less time in production than Logos Research editions, thus it's possible to ship them roughly at the same time as a new book comes out. May be of many of the Logos types (even Bible), but not really all.
- eBooks: only automated bible text tagging, which works well for some books and not so well for others (especially if incomplete references are used). Due to the automated conversion process, no manual checking of formatting or those links is performed - most often it is not an issue, but there are exceptions whch may or may not be corrected when brought up in the forums. Will usually only be type:monograph, have no index and no subject.
- Personal Books: Those are as good as yourself are making them, so can be of the quality of any of the three above.
- Facsimile: Those are scanned public domain books, i.e. not text but images, thus of type:Media Collection. Not really something I want, since they will never come up in searches and don't read better than such scans on archive.org. However, they tend to come up in search results more often in the new engine and they sell cheap. Don't be fooled into getting a book made from text, but there are some that never made it out into OCR and may be the only available source for a specific work.
Have joy in the Lord!
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I'm not at my computer, so I can't check, but is there a way to search and see only the facsimiles?
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Ronald Quick said:
I'm not at my computer, so I can't check, but is there a way to search and see only the facsimiles?
In the Logos store you can select the search facet "Resource Type": Facsimiles. Both in the store and in the "Add to library" tab you can search for the phrase "These scanned pages" (in quotes!) since this is the start of the general product description that is used for all of them.
EDIT: my personal test case for them is a facsimile of a booklet by Karl Barth in German language, black-letter print from 1920 called Biblische Fragen, Einsichten und Ausblicke
Have joy in the Lord!
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Works great. Thanks.
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Ugh...these concurrent sales ending at different times are confusing. I saw my cart go up in price, but items still on some sale, just not "back to school"....collections dropping from 35% to 25% off.
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Stuart A Weber said:
Ugh...these concurrent sales ending at different times are confusing. I saw my cart go up in price, but items still on some sale, just not "back to school"....collections dropping from 35% to 25% off.
I only had one item go up $12 bucks so I said, “what the heck! Just get it!” And I did 😎 along with two Legacy Libraries — one which contained the works of Søren Kierkegaard (26 volumes) which alone cost $799.99! The best part is I got that set with other stuff for less than $80 bucks. Not bad! Hopefully the new libraries that are coming soon will include great stuff at a huge discount too!
DAL
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