Allow us to use our personal books on the mobile app

Phil Gons (Logos)

Please allow us to access, read, search, etc. our personal (user-created) books on the mobile app.

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Bernhard

Yes, please!

James Hudson

This was discussed in the Logos 7 release thread over 4 years ago as an essential requirement. 4 years later....come on Logos!

unknown

@james-38 Exactly...

unknown

Yes, please

Jonathan Brown

I agree this would be nice, but the CEO of FL/Logos has already said they will not be adding personal books to web or mobile.

Tim Hensler

I often work out my own translation when studying a passage and add to the PBB Bible I am building. I teach/preach using my tablet, so having my PBB Bible available in the mobile app would be extremely helpful.

unknown

@jabrown29-28 True, but I seem to remember that this was not the original plan. Maybe they will change their mind again. But 28 user voices are hardly enough for that to happen.

Peter Agboola

Very useful!

AJ Dunbar

At least Faithlife/Logos can test it on the Web app. It is nearly identical to the desktop app.

paulkeith@postpro.net

Do it!

Josh Gherghel

Oh my, this would be great. I would very much like this.

Armand M. Rhone

As one of the previous posters, I also prefer to have the option of reading from my own Personal Book Bible translation. I often use my phone when studying the Bible, and have to use a separate Bible app alongside Logos in order to read from my personal translation. At this point, this is the only missing feature I've been able to identify which prevents me from exclusively using Logos for Bible Study.

unknown

essentially for someone who’s first language isn’t english… please!!!

unknown

YES please!

Kyle J Delgren

Please do this!

Tony

I would like to be able to access my personal books in the IOS app or better yet be able to upload word documents to the preaching mode since I preach from a manuscript

Tony

Yes please

unknown

I would very much like this feature. Pretty please!

Richard Bonjour

Would be of great benefit

Stephan Thelen

I am able to upload my pb in the cloud. Why should it not be possible to read them on my tablet? We have a lot of free commentaries in Germany. It would be very helpful to use them on other devices.

unknown

Definitely yes!

Quentin

Yes this is essential

Tim Hensler

As I study for lessons and sermons , I generate my own dynamic translation of the passage and add it to my own , ever growing , study version of the Bible , stored in Logos as a PB Bible. Not only do I benefit greatly from having the results of my translation work saved as a PB Bible alongside commercial translations on the Logos desktop platform , but it is also segmented with my own pericope titles and is formatted in ways that help me see the flow of the passage and its context.

   I include my translation of the study passage in my sermon documents so I can use it when teaching or preaching from my tablet , but sometimes I need to see the context or other passages in my PB Bible to answer questions during a lesson or after a sermon. Getting my laptop out for such occasions isn't always practical.

I also create other PB Books that contain information that I collect from various sources and for various purposes , so I have them in the Logos eco system for quick reference and access.

   Being able to access my PBs on my laptop and my desktop (via the upload function in PB Builder) is nice , but I really need these resources available on my tablet so they are with me whenever and wherever I need them , for both study purposes and just for reading.

Personally , I don't see the difference between being able to upload from my laptop to my desktop and being able to upload from my laptop to my tablet - it is still restricted to my eyes only , there is no distribution beyond my own use , so there should be no copyright or other issues that would cause a problem.

A long time ago , PBBs were very limited in their capabilities – they weren’t much more than separate documents in a file drawer. One day Bob Pritchett decided that PBBs would be elevated to the same capabilities as published resources , and it was made so. Now is the time to help PBBs catch up to the advanced capabilities of published resources by making them fully available on all platforms to the user who owns them.

Please , make it so. (And at the same time , please fix the problems that have been reported for several years with the PB Builder on the desktop platform. Pretty Please?)

Richard Bonjour

I use a personal book created by one of the adult Sabbath school lesson group members. It would be so very helpful to have access to personal books on my tablet as then I wouldn't have to take my laptop to Church all the time.

unknown

It would definitely be useful to be able to use personal books on the mobile app.

Kyle J Delgren

Yes, very helpful!

Peter Agboola

Yes, please allow us to access , read , search , etc. our personal (user-created) books on the mobile app. It would be much appreciated!

Hanson

Yes. This would be huge. Once my current computer dies (10 yrs old) I'm moving 100% to the iPad. Get on it Logos.

xnman

Yes! Mobile is of the future. I would love to get at my PBs with my phone which I use in class!

unknown

Yes, please. This would be very helpful for reading and marking up books in the public domain that are not otherwise available for Logos. It can be more comfortable and convenient to read lengthy texts on a tablet than on a desktop.

Media @ Central Lutheran AZ

Yes, Yes, Yes. Long overdue.

unknown

Yes please! Logos Mobile App has become very useful, but this is missing!

David Otamendi

Yes yes yes!

unknown

Please add the PB Bible to the Mobile app 🙏🏽

unknown

For some of us to have a Bible in our language (for example Polish) is to do our own PBB compilation. To have it on the mobile platforms would be a dream fulfilled. Some of us are waiting for that for years. Please...

DennisG

Yes please, would love to have this feature

Yes please🙏🏻

Yes , please

Yes, or at least make the Berean Study Bible available for purchase. At the moment I have had to import it into a personal book, which I can not access at all on my phone or tablet in Logos. This is my primary translation is the workflow is very cumbersome.

Yes

Yes, please.

Yes please!

I load a lot of personal book, usually older theological books in the public domain. I also load each month's Table Talk magazine as I receive a digital copy of it. Not having these resources available in the app prevents me using these resources when preparing documents from the app. It also prevents me from using a table to read them which is much easier than reading on my laptop. I can, of course, load them onto my Kindle but would prefer to have them all in one place with my other theological resources.

Richard Bonjour

If Faithlife management would consider this, it would be a great help to most of us. If it's a concern over people not buying books, then make a version of the mobile app that would be a one time cost extra. I'll bet you'd be surprised how many people you would get that would gladly pay the extra to have the ability to use there personal books in app.

I know it would be of great benefit to me!!!.

Evasive3083

Yes please !!!

Ben Johnson

This would be incredibly helpful for those of us who work in minority languages. Thank you!!!

unknown

Having personal books available to those who can't afford the Gold feature of Logos would be incredibly helpful.

Alex S

@Austin Moore I suspect that may be the main point of this restriction. By not supporting personal books Logos forces you to buy public domain resources at their shop.

邓牧师

This is the primary feature that keeps most from migrating to a mobile tablet such as an iPad. Definitely work adding to the mobile app.

Josiah Young

I agree! This would help a lot with seminary assignments to read Word doc materials (e.g. course notes, handouts, articles) that I would prefer to have in Logos so that my highlighting is retained and obviously for the benefit of searching in the future. It feels a little unintuitive to have a personal "books" feature that isn't available on the primary devices for reading books. I do writing and research on desktop, but I use my iPad for almost all of my book reading.

I would also like to have this feature on mobile so that I can access my personally-written resources (e.g., papers I've written for class, sermons and materials that were in Word prior to the Sermon Editor feature, etc.).

Gregory Wolff

Yes, this would be a great feature!!!!

unknown

Yes! Please make this feature available! I need to access my studies on my app, im not in front of my computer all day

Daniel Wurzberg

@Bohuslav Wojnar Same with us on the Balkans.

StevenG

@Tim Hensler Your workflow all sounds very intriguing. Do you have a video demonstration of this to help us see it visually?

unknown

@Tim Hensler I know you sent this message like two years ago, but by chance can I get a copy of your translation, I'm thinking of starting my own and would love to see the process behind the translation.