ISSUES: Worship in the Early Church: An Anthology of Historical Sources

fgh
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

1) This resource is quite expensive, yet you've made it considerably less useful than it should have been by not tagging it with datatypes. This means for example:

  • I can't add a note to a reference.
  • I can't see notes already made to those references.
  • I can't scroll it in parallel with another translation, or the original text.
  • I can't get Cited By to follow along.
  • I don't have access to many of the options in the right-click menu.
  • If I find a reference link in another book, it may lead to nothing, even though I actually have the reference in these volumes.

I think with a resource this expensive, we should have the right to expect datatypes. It's an anthology, after all, not just the odd quote in a monograph. 

2) In volumes 1, 3 and 4 the introductions to each text have a grey background. In volume 2 they don't. I admit I prefer them without, but I imagine the intention was to have them there in all four volumes.

Could you also make the grey a bit lighter? It may look nice on paper, but on the screen it looks both ugly and hard to read.

3) The TOC is rather odd from a user's perspective. Take the Didache as an example:

All those subheadings actually refer to bibliographies. To get to the actual quotes from the Didache, one has to click on Other Topics, and then scroll down past that bibliography. Since I imagine the quotes are what a reader is most likely looking for when he opens the book, they should be directly available from the TOC.

(If I had been advising the author, I would have told him to put the bibliographies last, not between the introduction and the text!)

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