Add Read Later feature to the desktop app

danwdoo

Please add the function of add book to read later to the desktop. The desktop client is where I go through and find books that I want to read and so this is very much needed on the desktop to be useful.

Phil Gons (Logos)

@dnews-64, you can currently do this by adding the tag #ReadLater to any book in your library. We'd like to more officially bring Read Later to desktop in the future, but this may suffice in the meantime.

Rosie Perera

There should be a simple way to keep a list of books you want to read, in prioritized order, like a watch list on any of various movie streaming sites. Users have come up with hacks for doing this via tags which works OK, but isn't as nice as it could be.

I envision a feature where you could check a box in the Info Panel to add or remove a book from your "To Read List" and a place in the UI where you could see your read list and drag books up and down to prioritize the order in which you want to read them. Or you could remove them from that list directly once you'd already read them. Or drag a book to that list from the library.

There are a couple of related features already, but neither one does exactly what is needed here:
Reading Lists - requires volunteer time curating topic-based reading lists on a website, for use by anyone. Not a personal list, easy to maintain, for one individual.
Reading Plan - this is just a scheduled plan to read a particular resource

EDIT: There's also the #ReadLater tag, but that's implemented on mobile only so far, and it does not include the ability to prioritize reading order.

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@Phil Gons (Faithlife)  Thanks for the tip. It also seems like a good way to sell more books :)

Anderson Abreu

Another suggestion that may help is to create a "Read Later" folder in the toolbar. Then you drag the books to the toolbar and then write the name of the folder where it should go, in your case, "Read Later". The Logos 9 system is not very practical, but it helps me a lot. I also have a folder called "exegesis", another "theology", and another "current series" that I'm preaching.

Anderson Abreu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1332494#Comment_1332494

@Keith Jones  Another suggestion that may help is to create a "Read Later" folder in the toolbar. Then you drag the books to the toolbar and then write the name of the folder where it should go, in your case, "Read Later". The Logos 9 system is not very practical, but it helps me a lot. I also have a folder called "exegesis", another "theology", and another "current series" that I'm preaching.

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I'm surprised this doesn't have more upvotes. Seems like a natural companion to the Reading Plan feature.

tjebme

Agree. Would like this to work like it does in iOS. Thanks.

Donovan R. Palmer

Small feature parity request that has been in the ‘Hope to do’ list for at least four years. Maybe in the new subscription model we will start to see some of these refinements.