Logos X-Ray feature one day?

David Kirk Davis

I'm getting to appreciate the Kindle X-Ray feature. It would be great if logos developed a similar feature. It cuts down on searching which is exactly the benefit of logos. 

JT (alabama24)

Can you be more specific? Provide examples?

William Gabriel

I think the Information Panel qualifies.

Sakarias Ingolfsson

X-ray is actually pre-compiled static content provided along with a kindle download. With this feature (not available on my kindle) you can look up main characters, places and concepts in a book. When you press the x-Ray button, you will be shown a summary based on the text currently visible on the screen, or if you like, chapter or even the entire book. Each term is followed by a distribution graph, and can be pressed to show definitions from Shelfari and Wikipedia.

Even though x-Ray does in some ways resemble certain features of Logos, it is still very different. Most importantly x-Ray is a static document following a certain resource, containing all the info right there (apart from links to Shelfari and Wikipedia). The content is identical for every user. This is quite different from resource tagging in Logos, which helps you find content in your own library, and therefore is unique for every user. Generally speaking it does not provide any content.

DMB

The idea is interesting, though the specific Xray functionality in Kindle I make little use of.

I looked at it when I got my PaperWhite, and haven't noticed before that it's greyed out for most of my books.  For the romance novels, I suppose it'd defeat the whole plot (oh my goodness, they fell in love!).  But for Hess's Israelite Religions and my current Mark Smith's Genesis, it would have been very useful.  Hess wandered around interminably.

David Thomas

I can't remember how to do it, and it may not still be available in Logos 5, but Logos used to have a feature that would allow the user to determine the percentage of a text that I wanted to read. For example - If I set it for 25% it would select what it considers the most important 25% of the book. Or a user could set it as low as 10% to view just the 10% that the program determined was the most important parts of the text (in essence a "Cliff's Notes" on a Logos resource).

Can any of the other users recall this feature? It seems somewhat similar to the X-Ray feature.

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/562795#Comment_562795

David Thomas said:

I can't remember how to do it, and it may not still be available in Logos 5, but Logos used to have a feature that would allow the user to determine the percentage of a text that I wanted to read. For example - If I set it for 25% it would select what it considers the most important 25% of the book. Or a user could set it as low as 10% to view just the 10% that the program determined was the most important parts of the text (in essence a "Cliff's Notes" on a Logos resource).

Can any of the other users recall this feature? It seems somewhat similar to the X-Ray feature.

yes this was a summarize visual filter in Libronix 3.  It was not included in Logos 4 or Logos 5....probably user usage statistics killed it off.

David Thomas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/562809#Comment_562809

Disciple of Christ (doc) said:

David Thomas said:

I can't remember how to do it, and it may not still be available in Logos 5, but Logos used to have a feature that would allow the user to determine the percentage of a text that I wanted to read. For example - If I set it for 25% it would select what it considers the most important 25% of the book. Or a user could set it as low as 10% to view just the 10% that the program determined was the most important parts of the text (in essence a "Cliff's Notes" on a Logos resource).

Can any of the other users recall this feature? It seems somewhat similar to the X-Ray feature.

yes this was a summarize visual filter in Libronix 3.  It was not included in Logos 4 or Logos 5....probably user usage statistics killed it off.

Thanks for confirming that I am not going crazy or that I just imagined it! I searched long and hard for "summarize" on the Forums and support pages at logos.com and could find no remnants of this feature. I guess the community notes highlight is somewhat of a revised version of this idea.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/562813#Comment_562813

The Libronix one is rather fascinating. I'm sure there's some sort of algorythm.  But, below is a page I was reading yesterday from the Athens to Jerusalem resource. The yellow highlighter is the Summarize from Libronix. The other cute colors are my own.  Clearly Libby has a mind of her own.

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Milford Charles Murray

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/562896#Comment_562896

Peace, Denise!                    Thanks for your post!                          I really enjoyed going back to Logos 3.0g for a while this evening -- just for the sheer "fun" of it!               *smile*                    I hadn't thought about summarization for a long, long time.  Actually I didn't use it much; but it's quite graphic, eh???!!!