Hhow do you guys use I pad to enhance yourstudying?
Thanks for the answers
I use it to do any lengthy reading in a resource. It is great for that.
I use it when I go to the hospital and expect to be waiting for someone having surgery. It has been a blessing to study on the ipad in hospital waiting rooms.
I use it for my Bible if I go to hear someone else preach. It is a joy to be able to over English and Greek text, lexions and commentaries while listening to a sermon.
At present the iPad is not much better than Vyrso - it's just a glorified reader with some very rudimentary search capabilities (at least when you are offline - I only have a wifi version so am not connected in church).
I think that there are plans to add the ability to make notes which will be a great addition to the ipad app
I think that Taxee means to say that the Logos App is not much better than the Vyrso App. The Logos App desperately needs notes and highlighting. The iPad, however, is close to perfect. [:)]
I think that Taxee means to say that the Logos App is not much better than the Vyrso App. The Logos App desperately needs notes and highlighting. The iPad, however, is close to perfect.
Agreed. [Y]
The last sentence with hesitation... but yes, you are right. [:D]
Basic Bible study - passage with most used commentaries - when enjoying the warm weather on my balcony. Lots of Logos reading on Vyrso during meals and coffee breaks. I use it every day. Also useful for Bible passages if I've left my large Hebrew-English OT at home. I'm spending an hour or 2 most days on general Logos reading since I have the iPad.
I am thinking about buying an iPad after much reading and research into tablets. The thing I have come to realize is that a tablet is not a PC, it cannot do what a PC does, and it should not be thought of as a smaller version of a PC. The tablets are first and foremost reading and viewing devices. They are intended for looking at things -- your documents, your presentations, text, web pages, your pictures, emails, etc. But once you start asking them to do more than that (like any serious writing, editing photos, etc.), you're pushing it. You can get the iPad to do some of these things in a fairly decent way, but nothing like you can do on your regular PC (for example, the iPad doesn't do multitasking, not like on a PC anyway, where you can have multiple windows running multiple programs, copying and pasting between them, etc.). In particular, expecting the Logos iPad app to do morphological searches in the Biblical texts like the regular PC version of Logos4 might be asking for too much -- although it would be nice (and the current version of the app seems to need some more work).
If I make the plunge, I plan on using the iPad mostly at home for checking emails (and for short responses), reading news sites, and as a Bible, book, and document reading device. I do not plan on using it to create Powerpoint presentations, write sermons, do analysis in the Biblical text, write long emails, etc. For studying, I basically plan to use it in conjunction with my still-favorite word processor (paper and pen; although several have discovered that a tablet is actually a good note-taking device) and I plan to use it for reading from my Logos collection (and it beats Kindle all to pieces on this score), but beyond that my PC will still have to be the main workhorse for actually producing documents.
So to answer the original question, it seems that an iPad will best enhance my study if I use it mostly like a portable library (with the Logos app). The thing I cannot yet get past is how an iPad would be all that useful when my PC is already a laptop and can go anywhere I need it to go. This is the question I would like to hear someone address.
There's a world of difference between busting out a laptop in a waiting room, and having your iPad tucked under your arm or in your briefcase. In short, its a convenience.... especially when away from home vs. reading emails while at home.
No, it isn't the same as your L4 on your desktop/laptop, but it IS excellent for Bible reading (I no longer carry a paper Bible at all, and not just because a giant print Bible is difficult for me to see), text comparison between translations, and reference checking with commentaries.
I like the split screen feature to link a Bible text in one part and a commentary in the other.
One thing I find very hard to do on my desktop or even my laptop is reading page after page of text. The iPad is a great way to take advantage of reading the way I usually read. It makes a world a difference!
The thing I cannot yet get past is how an iPad would be all that useful when my PC is already a laptop and can go anywhere I need it to go. This is the question I would like to hear someone address.
David -
If I could own only 1 computer device, it would be a MacBook. It is powerful and portable. If I could own 2, I would own an iPad. Try pulling a laptop out to read in church. If I could own 3 devices, I would own an iMac. It is more powerful and has more "real estate" on screen. As it turns out, I own all three [:D]
I would love to have an iPhone too, but I don't really want to spend the monthly bill on slow internet speed. I would love it if I could purchase an iPhone at a reasonable cost, with a "pay as you go" internet (like I have on my iPad).
