Best way to read Logos books on a Kindle
So I recently purchased a Kindle and have been looking around for ways to read my Logos books on it. My first option was to use the export function and some work-arounds to get it on my Kindle. However, I just discovered biblia.com and http://library.logos.com. I've tried the first, but not the second yet. I was able to log onto biblia with my logos account and open my books there using the kindle browser. It was pretty cool and a lot easier than export/convert/upload/repeat depending on the size of the book.
So first I have a question. What's the difference between the two sites? Maybe someone from logos could chime in on that.
Secondly, if you have a Kindle (or other e-reader) what would you like to see most integrated into biblia.com / logos.library.com
In that regard, the "home," "library" and "search" buttons don't show up on my Kindle screen. They're there and I can mouse over and click on them. I just can't see them. Secondly I haven't messed around with it a lot yet, but I would definitely like to be able to mark up text (underline, annotate) while I read on my Kindle and then be able to access notes made there, when I study in logos4?
Thanks to those at Logos who are working hard to make these things all work together.
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In case you want to play around with other logos sites you can find a list of them at http://wiki.logos.com/Logos_Websites
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but biblia.com is the future of Logos on the web. library.logos.com was a "lets get started and play with possibilities" site that I believe they are moving away from.
Enjoy your kindle. I've been tempted lately by it. If I were to use it I would probably want to go the export route so they were available offline. How smooth is biblia.com on the kindle?
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I believe that biblia.com is a newer replacement for library.logos.com. The former is gradually developing and improving; the latter is not.
At the moment biblia.com has the advantage that the zoom in feature on the Kindle menu enlarges the text to a comfortable size. This does not work on library.logos.com.
The advantage of library.logos.com is that there are pop-ups for footnotes and bible references. On bibila.com (the mobile view: I can't get the standard view to work effectively on the Kindle) the footnotes are at the foot of each page, which required a bit of scrolling up and down.
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I believe that biblia.com is a newer replacement for library.logos.com. The former is gradually developing and improving; the latter is not.
At the moment biblia.com has the advantage that the zoom in feature on the Kindle menu enlarges the text to a comfortable size. This does not work on library.logos.com.
The advantage of library.logos.com is that there are pop-ups for footnotes and bible references. On bibila.com (the mobile view: I can't get the standard view to work effectively on the Kindle) the footnotes are at the foot of each page, which required a bit of scrolling up and down.
Can you access biblia.com through the included 3G service or do you have to be on WiFi? if you can access it through the 3G how fast is it?
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3G works fine. It takes anything from 2 seconds to 15 seconds to load a page.
I use my kindle as my Bible in church. The slowest bit is entering the bible reference on the keyboard. As long as the reference is printed on the service sheet I'm OK. It's no good a quick "turn back to ..." in the middle of the sermon.
With 3G for no monthly fee, I can't complain. The battery also lasts a week with wireless on.
I'm just hoping we get a bit more functionality on the mobile version of biblia.com. Pop-ups (provided they fit properly on the screen when zoomed in) would make reading complex works with lots of footnotes a lot easier. I can get that functionality if I visit biblia.com from my laptop, but if I'm using the laptop I have Logos Bible Software installed. As I mentioned above, this was also available on library.logos.com, but only with very small text.
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So I've been messing around with it for a few days now. I'm happy enough with Biblia.com for the moment, though I think it could really be improved for the kindle. It's not always super easy to navigate and sometimes I find that if I'm reading a larger section and stop in the middle it doesn't load up back at the point where I left off, so I end up doing some scrolling to get back to my place. The same is true for switching over to a Bible to look at reference. So pop-ups would be quite helpful. For books that I really want to study I may stick with exporting them, just for the ease of underlining and making notes. Though even that is not perfect, takes time and doesn't get access to your whole library.
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Mark,
Could you explain in more detail about the export option and the work-arounds you used to get your resources onto your Kindle. I really need the option to read offline, so I'd appreciate any guidance you can give for being able to read my resources on my Kindle. Thanks!
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I gotta say....I tried biblia.com on Kindle and didn't like it...I'd much rather export a few hundred pages of a resource to kindle and read it that way.
The only bad part about that is that the formatting gets hosed up sometimes....Greek font's especially...
Robert Pavich
For help go to the Wiki: http://wiki.logos.com/Table_of_Contents__
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Pamela,
I won't go into detail on the export as that's part of Logos and you've probably figured it out already. I will say though that it is worth maximizing the amount of text you export by pushing out the margins and selecting the largest page size. Most direct route to reading on a Kindle would be to export to PDF, but that's a bit clunky when it actually comes to reading. There are then a couple of different programs that convert files into .mobi format for the kindle. I use Calibre and am pretty happy with it. You can find it by searching. It converts a number of different formats, including PDF, to .mobi. So I normally export to PDF, convert to .mobi using Calibre and then transfer it to my Kindle. For a bigger book you may want to do multiple exports to say a .doc file, combine them together into one doc and then convert. Hope that helps.
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Thanks, Mark. That is a big help. Still have to try it, but it should work. Blessings...
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So I recently purchased a Kindle and have been looking around for ways to read my Logos books on it. My first option was to use the export function and some work-arounds to get it on my Kindle. However, I just discovered biblia.com and http://library.logos.com. I've tried the first, but not the second yet. I was able to log onto biblia with my logos account and open my books there using the kindle browser. It was pretty cool and a lot easier than export/convert/upload/repeat depending on the size of the book.
So first I have a question. What's the difference between the two sites? Maybe someone from logos could chime in on that.
Secondly, if you have a Kindle (or other e-reader) what would you like to see most integrated into biblia.com / logos.library.com
In that regard, the "home," "library" and "search" buttons don't show up on my Kindle screen. They're there and I can mouse over and click on them. I just can't see them. Secondly I haven't messed around with it a lot yet, but I would definitely like to be able to mark up text (underline, annotate) while I read on my Kindle and then be able to access notes made there, when I study in logos4?
Thanks to those at Logos who are working hard to make these things all work together.
Which Kindle are you on? If you are on a Fire the download the Logos App. If you are on an e-ink device then L6 allows you to send your books to your Kindle.
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