Maybe I am the only one who struggles with this….
This question is probably more for Orthodox and Catholic users. I tend to buy Verbum and Orthodox packages, especially Eastern Rite Verbum and also some Verbum research packages.
What I run into though is it seems the more expansive the package is, the more books that I get that aren't really from a Verbum or Orthodox viewpoint. Its like there is a sweet spot where the libraries move from being Ortho-Catholic centric to being just books in order to offer a larger library. I don't mean that to be harsh its just what my perception is. Do others have the same perception? If so what is the ideal library to buy?
I usually find it to be Gold or Platinum.
Now why do I see that as a problem? Its mostly my poor searching probably but when I started with Orthodox 6 Gold or whatever it was, most searches didn't have lots of hits which is to be expected with a small library, but they were Orthodox. Over the years, buy more and more and larger and larger, but now it seems like I gets lots of results but they may not be from within the Orthodox/Catholic tradition.
My latest quandary is I looked at Verbum 7 Portfolio which has Lexham Research Commentaries. I doubt the LRC is Catholic/Orthodox in nature.
I watched the videos and it looks like it pulls in material from my library and compiles it kind of like an "active" commentary in that if I add more resources then it would have additional material to source. If so that would hopefully mean it would be biases towards my collection of sources?
Is that right? If that is right, can I filter the library the LRC uses to only resources that are from specific libraries I have purchased?
Thanks