http://logos.uservoice.com/forums/42823-logos-bible-software-5/suggestions/5888196-create-a-sample-preview-option
I have created a uservoice suggestion to send a sample to L5 like Amazon will send a sample to a Kindle. Anyone else like this idea?
Good idea.
There is already a way to see a sample in L5 if you know the Logos resource ID. For many titles you can find it by looking in the "See Inside" feature on the Logos website, clicking the i (info) icon in the upper right, then looking at what comes after "Support info". For example for this edition of Grace Abounding, here's how you'd find that resource ID:
Copy that text and paste it into the command bar immediately after typing logosres: (with no space after the colon) and press Enter, and Logos will open a sample of that book for you if you don't have a license to it. If you own it, it will open the book.
But there are two problems with this approach:
1) Sometimes the "See inside" feature is not implemented on the website, so we can't get the resource ID.
2) It's a pain in the neck to have to do all of this manually.
So it would be cool if Logos would provide a button on the website from each product description page that would go directly to Logos and open that book or a sample of it if we don't own the license to it.
Thus, great suggestion! (Just view the above as a partial workaround in the meantime until such time as Logos chooses to implement this. I'll go vote for it if I can spare a vote from somewhere else.)
Good idea. There is already a way to see a sample in L5 if you know the Logos resource ID. For many titles you can find it by looking in the "See Inside" feature on the Logos website, clicking the i (info) icon in the upper right, then looking at what comes after "Support info". For example for this edition of Grace Abounding, here's how you'd find that resource ID: Copy that text and paste it into the command bar immediately after typing logosres: (with no space after the colon) and press Enter, and Logos will open a sample of that book for you if you don't have a license to it. If you own it, it will open the book. But there are two problems with this approach: 1) Sometimes the "See inside" feature is not implemented on the website, so we can't get the resource ID. 2) It's a pain in the neck to have to do all of this manually. So it would be cool if Logos would provide a button on the website from each product description page that would go directly to Logos and open that book or a sample of it if we don't own the license to it. Thus, great suggestion! (Just view the above as a partial workaround in the meantime until such time as Logos chooses to implement this. I'll go vote for it if I can spare a vote from somewhere else.)
Thanks for the response, I was aware of that. Amazon has the same thing, the actual sample would be more in-depth. The current preview is somewhat lacking as it doesn't really show the formatting well. I hope you can find some votes!
I'm not sure Amazon sends samples like what you're talking about for every book. It probably has to do with which publishers give them the rights to do that. Likewise, Logos would have tricky negotiations to get permission. And it would also be a whole other set of resources for them to have to keep up-to-date for us, if typos were fixed in the sample pages, etc. I'm guessing they will find it isn't worth their time to do it.
But I did find one vote I could free up from elsewhere and voted for this for now. However I'm not really that keen on it as a feature the way you describe it (I think that's overkill and I'd rather they expend their energies on something else), so I'll probably end up reassigning this vote sooner or later for something I'm more passionate about. The quicky thing I was originally thinking you meant is something I'd like to see them do, though.
