Here’s an important question I’m sure it has either been asked before or has already been answered:
How long will the 2025 Libraries last? Will there be 2026, 2027, 2028, etc. How long before each library gets “reconfigured”?
Thanks!
DAL
This has not been communicated - however I personally see it as an indicator that we don't have Logos 11 libraries, but 2025 libraries.
How long will the 2025 Libraries last? Will there be 2026, 2027, 2028, etc. How long before each library gets “reconfigured”? This has not been communicated - however I personally see it as an indicator that we don't have Logos 11 libraries, but 2025 libraries.
I had a strong feeling the traditional numbering was going to disappear 🫥 But this new numbering intrigued me and made me wonder if perhaps we will be getting new libraries every year.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it will be a new library every year. To me, that makes the most sense, with the year being in the name, although the release is a couple of months before the new year.
It would be a good strategy
Assuming you have a big library, what in the new libraries is enticing?
It varies - in the L10 cycle, the biggy for me was the Blackwell reception history commentaries which I had slowly been buying as hardbacks because Logos was so slow getting them. I haven't purchased a standard package for several years - rather academic and multiple denominationals. The academic this year had nothing exciting but just enough that would be nice to gets purchased but the fun is yet to come.
the fun is yet to come.
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I'm waiting impatiently
It's a guestion I have thought about and the answer does influencing purchasing strategy. If every year, then one might want to be more selective in purchasing smaller libraries across the range of 'tracks' on offer than one in only on resources that are priority to you - such as the example on Blackwells that MJ gave.
Futher to this if it is every year, are they going to release everthing at once in the future or continue with splitng the standard v denominational tracks along with the Verbum and various packages offered under that banner as the same time too or a different time.
And they have still failed to clarify if Logos Utlimate will like in the past contain all of Logos and Verbum offerings or Verbum offerings will be exlcude becase they are only going to be availabe to those with a Verbum Suscription.
Nothing, actually; mostly interested in theology, I'm sitting this round out--that's a first for me. I'm hoping one of the denominational packages is more appealing and that they're taking extra time to put together something genuinely interesting.
I appears to me that most of the new content was to feed the new Bible Study Builder. I saw very little new content beyond that.
I sat it out during the initial sale, but I may re-consider next time they go on sale for 30-35% off and upgrade my Diamond. At the time the sale was going on, I wasn't comfortable with making the purchase or taking on a payment plan. By the time they go on sale again, I may be in a position to consider it. Still praying about it.
I, too, bought a library (2025 Orthodox Gold) considering that the Blackwell reception history commentary series was the big value, there. I had already purchased a few in that series individually and really liked them.
But like many others, here, I now have a large enough library with thousands of resources that it seems likely to me that I will find less and less in Logos' resource offerings that really excites me to buy because I already have so very much that I wanted, and with so many books I haven't even read, yet, there's less incentive to buy even more.
Unlike some, I don't see this as a deficiency of Logos, that somehow Logos is "failing" if I'm not exciting about buying huge new libraries every year, but as a predictable natural outcome of Logos users accumulating huge libraries. There comes a time when you just don't need that many additional books. And to me, that is the very good reason that Logos finally switched from trying to make their money only from selling books to selling books AND selling "features," to now offering subscriptions for ongoing maintenance and improvements of their software. I love Logos, want them to continue to be successful, and am happy to pay for it. The worker is worthy of his hire! :)
I'm not a big believer in paper tigers. But if you wish, Logos 'failing', I'll sign on. Thru the years, Logos was shipping new and exciting resources … who could resist? Now, they're down to 1 a year (this fall), and struggling with their earlier commitments (old Lexham, etc).
So, I'm forced to doom-scroll Amazon for new academic offerings (with success). Smiling. Like or not subscribers need to be fed.
I bought one as well as I liked some of the commentaries. The one think I don’t like about the libraries is all the unneeded devotionals. I feel they are mostly just fillers for the package. I would rather see more study material, so I would most likely pick and choose what I get instead of the continuing of buying more libraries.
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