How do you mark a book as a favourite that you want to read

Werner Vos

Is there a way to mark a book as a favourite that you want to read. I have about 1800 books, and it is a little hard to remember which ones i want to read. Most of the books I have are commentaries that are there for study, but some books are more devotional by nature.

Graham Criddle

Hi Werner

Werner Vos said:

Is there a way to mark a book as a favourite that you want to read.

One option - and one which I personally use - is to tag them. See http://wiki.logos.com/Tagging for details.

I use the tag "ToRead" and can then use the filter "mytag:ToRead" in the Library to see the books on my "to read list"

Graham

Dave Hooton

Werner Vos said:

Is there a way to mark a book as a favourite that you want to read.

• you can create a folder in Favorites e.g. Reading, and drag the resource tab there (and this will also act as a bookmark)
• you can add a tag to the resource e.g. Unread, in Library

I add the tag to a resource I think I want to read as books are added to my Library, but maintain position in Favorites when actually reading it.

David A Egolf

Werner Vos said:

Is there a way to mark a book as a favourite that you want to read. I have about 1800 books, and it is a little hard to remember which ones i want to read. Most of the books I have are commentaries that are there for study, but some books are more devotional by nature.

Dave's suggestion to make a folder in Favorites is the way to go in my opinion.  I started by tagging, but it wasn't visual enough. 

I now have a folder for "Books to investigate" where I throw new volumes I have either just purchased or perhaps just "found" existing in my library. As an aside, there is an art to dealing with these resources.  Many seminaries recommend the secular classic "How to Read a Book" by Mortimer J. Adler. He gives guidelines on how to spend less than an hour on a book just to decide whether it is worth the time investment of reading.

I also keep a folder for "To Read" for those that passed the "Adler" test. This is for the resources I will eventually get around to reading, but haven't started.

I have a folder for "Reading" where I keep the books I am reading.  Most of the time I can't read a book at a single pass because other studies come up.  I will drag the tab of the book to the "Reading" folder which will bookmark its location for when I can get back to it later.  I can also use the "Favorites" with bookmarking from my iPad and Android tablets where I do most of my reading.  I find that a favorites link is a much better way than the "bookmark" technique supplied by Logos.

Finally, for reading purposes, I have a folder for "Read" so that I can locate the volumes in my library that I have already completed.

I became a fan of "Favorites" once I started using it to organize my research.  When I start a new topic; e.g., church history, I create a folder just for that topic.  I then perform various searches in my library to locate resources which have information about the topic.  As soon as I locate them I throw them into the new folder and keep searching. This is just like going to the library and collecting all the books you'd like to take home.  Don't stop to read!

Sometimes this phase will warrant a subfolder.  In the case of "church history" I created a subfolder to hold original documents like a copy of The Westminster Confession of Faith.  Once the study begins I put links to my clippings and notes files into the same folder.

Many times the search during the organizational phase will locate a specific chapter or essay within a volume.  The "bookmarking" capability of Favorites works very well for keeping track of these.  Open them up and drag the tab to favorites or drag directly from the search result.  You can rename the entry in the favorites to match the description you need.

Other types of resources can be put in a favorites folder.  For instance, you can create a named desktop layout and drag that to the folder.

Milford Charles Murray

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Peace, David!            *smile*

                    Thank you for your well-written post which I'm sure will help many a Logos Bible Software user.  Well-Done!

                                        I also like Favourites and use them for a multitude of purposes!          

               Also, the following is very simplistic, but it works for me; since I use all 4 Logos aps on my iPad 2, I have some of my proposed reading on 1 app, some other on another app and the 3rd and the 4th.

                                                           Besides these, I also use MyTags such as ToRead9                 ...     ToRead8                             ToRead7          et. cetera to quickly get access to a book I want to read, changing my priorities over a longer period of time in my library usage ....

Werner Vos

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David, thank you for that very thorough reply. I appreciate it.

Werner