Portable Libronix -- the competition is on!
Just about the same time we heard from the folks from Logos that they want our input on our interest in Libronix on the go, word went out about Glo Digital Bible. Anyone who looks at it can see a number of features that many of us long for: in-built portability to mobile devices (without paying extras!), audio Bible, social and interactive features designed to cater to the devotional life. They are taking the underexploited Ilumina flop and making it into a great product. Obviously, there is a market for it. I think that in a way the announcement of this upcoming product is a revealing answer to the question we have heard from Logos with regard to the need for/desire for portability.
I must say that though my own suggestions and that of others have tended to focus on usability and power in Libronix, what I saw in the demo from Glo about interactivity gave me reason to think that perhaps this is something we have overlooked in our suggestions for 4.0.
Your thoughts?
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Francis said:
Just about the same time we heard from the folks from Logos that they want our input on our interest in Libronix on the go, word went out about Glo Digital Bible. Anyone who looks at it can see a number of features that many of us long for: in-built portability to mobile devices (without paying extras!), audio Bible, social and interactive features designed to cater to the devotional life. They are taking the underexploited Ilumina flop and making it into a great product. Obviously, there is a market for it. I think that in a way the announcement of this upcoming product is a revealing answer to the question we have heard from Logos with regard to the need for/desire for portability.
I must say that though my own suggestions and that of others have tended to focus on usability and power in Libronix, what I saw in the demo from Glo about interactivity gave me reason to think that perhaps this is something we have overlooked in our suggestions for 4.0.
Your thoughts?
That is exactly what I suggested a few times already for the new version of Logos. Humans are visual beings. We need Logos to be iTunes-like interface with flexible way of organizing of the resources and with much more multimedias involved. For some people however that would degrade Logos from being a Scholar's tool. I think Scholar's doesn't mean dry and not user friendly. So, my be we need Logos to be able to switch between the professional working/study interface with all the technical capabilities, and Logos Bible Reader with all the fancy multimedia stuff connected and integrated to be used in the simple Bible reading with all the maps, pictures, audio, video etc. That is Logos of my dream, to say it in a very simple way [:)]
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I have a BeBook ereader and my wife has a EZReader. We both love and use them constantly. I would love the possibility of using devotional, and even academic, resources that I own in Logos on my ereader.
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Francis said:
word went out about Glo Digital Bible
If this takes off, it means that Zondervan will probably keep hoarding their copyrights...
"As any translator will attest, a literal translation is no translation at all."
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Paul Golder said:Francis said:
word went out about Glo Digital Bible
If this takes off, it means that Zondervan will probably keep hoarding their copyrights...
True. And that's a bummer because it is a real pain to fire up Pradis to access those certain titles I just have to have. [:'(]
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