This Vyrso thing is going to be a lot bigger than I realized.

Mike Childs
Mike Childs Member Posts: 3,116 ✭✭✭
edited November 20 in Resources Forum

Logos is always on the cutting edge.  Can't wait for the e-book store to get up and going full speed.


"In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church," John Wesley

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  • Lana Vaughan
    Lana Vaughan Member Posts: 1 ✭✭

    Not convinced. It just seems like another ereader, nothing special. Logos does fine for reading my library and Vyrso doesn't offer any titles currently that I would want. I downloaded it, read the $.99 book The Facade and was pretty much done. 

  • Captain Faris
    Captain Faris Member Posts: 4 ✭✭

    The "interface" is critical for reading fiction ebooks. Vyrso probably works, but Biblia.com in a browser has serious page turning and font size issues. Logos can probably write the code that finds the screen size and adjusts the font without forcing the horizontal scrool bar (or forcing dragging on a Smartphone). A silverlight control would be easy.

    I just finished reading Logos's ebook version of The Facade and really liked it (with quibbles, see my review on Amazon). I read it on my Windows Phone 7 using Biblia's mobile web interface despite the interface weaknesses noted above. Kindle, by the way, is only slightly better as an ebook reader. There is room for a new cross-platform ebook reader that handles licenses easily and syncronizes notes and bookmarks a la Kindle, but the effort of creating a separate universe and library just to get a slightly better interface seems too costly and doomed. It would be better to "publish" into an existing format unless an "open" standard file format can be served into a next generation ebook reader.

    Until then, just fix the pageturning, page width and font size controls for Biblia's web interface.

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