Ranking System - Like a Buying guide

armando

Would it be possible to have something like best bible commentaries or the minister library integrated into Logos website.

Examples:

D.A Carson on John could either be #1 best commentary or be apart of a group in a ranking System like 'category: S'

Leon Morris NICNT on the gospel of john would be #2 or category: S

Something like pulpit commentary would be category: D

Ranking System:

S - The Best Commentaries

A - Great Commentaries

B - Good Commentaries

C - Descent Commentaries

D - Ok commentaries

NK

Sort of like what Best Commentaries does?

https://bestcommentaries.com/

armando

Yea sorta like that, but directly integrated into the website, a kinda everything is there in front of you just to make shopping experience better.

Just an idea I had, thought it would be cool if it was all there in front of you instead of jumping back and forth

DMB

I could see some sort of tagging system … maybe even, moving from desktop tagging to Logos.com (and back).

But a universal rating (even 'Best' commentaries, would be a problem within minutes … whose 'universal'? Of course, someone could say 'optional!'.

MJ. Smith

I've labeled some of my commentaries as scholarly, egotist, crackpot, weird as a way to distinguish the more serious:

• scholarly: would broadly be accepted as scholarly in academic circles which to me means worth looking in most circumstances even if I dislike the approach or conclusions
• egotist: written by popular preachers, teachers, or evangelists representing their personal opinion with variable degrees of thought behind it. These are useful for finding approaches to difficult passages or topics when one is stuck and for finding issues you want to nip in the bud.
• crackpot: these are the most fun to read but dangerous to use for fear of insulting the participant who believes the stuff should your opinion seep through.
• weird: also fun to read, often scholarly but using approaches that some would find offensive as they discuss human experience outside the rational. Conservatives unfamiliar with the actual material might mistakenly call them mystical, esoteric, super-natural. Useful in specific situations.

I genuinely find this a better guide than a "best of breed" approach because there are many commentaries that are the best for the type of criticism that they represent. To try to pick a best among technical, literary. social-rhetorical, reception, form, advocacy … seems to me to be a fools' mission.

Paul Gibson

I would like to see this feature in Logos and/or the website. Are you thinking this would be something curated by the Logos staff, or by Logos users? A good start would be for users to use the rating system already on the website. Perhaps if the rating system was built into Logos itself, without being obnoxious, more people would rate resources. I wouldn't mind if once a week (or month) Logos showed my five most-used for the past week and ask if I wanted to rate them. Users would need the ability to turn this off completely, or rate any book at any time (e.g. the worst book I've read this week).