Is there any way I can print a hard copy of all the titles in my entire Logos library?
Open the library window and click in the upper left corner on the book icon... there you can print export a list.
=Dan
Hi Nicodemus - and welcome to the forums
Another option from that suggested by Dan is to use a Bibliography Document - accessible from the Documents menu
choose to add resources from a collection and choose "All Resources" (this is for Logos 6 - in Logos 5 it will be "Entire Library"
This gives you something like from which you can select the Print / Export option
Graham
You can use the Bibliography feature from the Documents menu.
Use the Add menu to get citations from ...a collection. Choose "All resources" from the top of the menu. Then you can use Print/Export to print the titles.
Thanks Graham and Dave. I didn't know about that feature.
-Dan
This question comes up regularly. Others have told you how, but I'd question why anyone really needs to do this. A hard copy of that list is likely to get outdated soon as you acquire more books, and seems like a waste of paper. Anyway, you can look up the list of titles in your library within the software any time you want.
Another option instead of printing to paper if you really want a list outside of the Logos software is to print to PDF. Then you have your list in list form, but you're not consuming precious trees.
This question comes up regularly. Others have told you how, but I'd question why anyone really needs to do this.
Thanks for saying this Rosie. I have often thought about it but never asked it before. Printing would be my last resort.
This question comes up regularly. Others have told you how, but I'd question why anyone really needs to do this. A hard copy of that list is likely to get outdated soon as you acquire more books, and seems like a waste of paper. Anyway, you can look up the list of titles in your library within the software any time you want. Another option instead of printing to paper if you really want a list outside of the Logos software is to print to PDF. Then you have your list in list form, but you're not consuming precious trees.
I can't imagine it either. the ones i generated would have been monstrous to print, that said I can see the value in sending a list off to an associate or friend to help recommend things to explore. (i.e. I want to do a study on X.... with the list they may say: Start of with Book A and move on to Book E, but avoid Book C, their arguments are week and unfounded. Also if one ever wished to sell ones entire collection it might be very helpful to have a complete list like this. But generally I do not see the value in this feature either.
Just imagine how much printing paper would cost and the time it would take for someone with $10K-$25K in Logos resources.
I can imagine sending off a list from a smaller bibliography (e.g., generated from a collection), but one's entire library? Also, c'mon people, we live in an era when your associate or friend would probably rather receive that list of suggested books in digital form anyway, so that they can copy/paste the titles and go look up the product pages for them.
I think the reason we see the request for this "print a listing of my entire library" so frequently is that people are still exposed a lot to printed lists of books in libraries: some church libraries produce a printed list which they have available for people to peruse, and so on. But I'd really like to encourage people to move away from the model of having to print everything before you can peruse it. My dad used to print all his email messages and read them at the kitchen table. It took me a long time to convince him that was a waste of paper.
On a related subject, I am trying to create a list in MS Excel of all my resources in Logos 5.
I could do it in Libronix, but I've never done it since - can someone help?
Rosie,
The reason I would want to know all of my books is two-fold. One, I may miss a book I could be reading simply because I don't know it is there. Two, and more importantly for me, I have a basic set of books I use for sermon prep. And I have a set of books for research purposes. I am preparing a collection for sermon prep so I can look up those books I use most. That way when I do a search on Psalm 91:1, I can limit it to those books. But there may be other books I am not utilizing and want to look through them all to see if there are any worth putting in the collection or not.So, I would include certain commentaries, Bible Dictionaries, Christian history, grammar books, and books about imagery and figures of speech. So it is a jumbling of books without racking my brain trying to figure out which search parameters to use. I can just add whatever boos I want and be done with it. I also don't get new books every week, more like every few months now, with an update on the journals every year (the stuff left for research). I hope that helps.
Bruce,
I replied to Rosie so you can read that. But in addition to what she said, I have gone through a Logos training course offered at Liberty Univ. with 1 1/2" binder. So printing the list is not a problem for me. I can quickly reference any book easily. And with the larger Logos becomes, the slower it is getting. Secondly, Logos is not my only library. I have about 600 more books on my shelves in my office, and I want to use Access to keep a record of my books altogether, and have my physical books already in it by category, and am about to add Logos to it to. And if I can put them on a document, I can import them into Access with little effort. I will be able to search Access's database much faster than old, slow Logos (at least that is the way it feels most of the time).
Logos is not my only library. I have about 600 more books on my shelves in my office, and I want to use Access to keep a record of my books altogether, and have my physical books already in it by category, and am about to add Logos to it
Quicker would be SQL insert statements into Access since Logos library has SQLite database files. Caveat: while OK to select from SQLite files for Logos (and Verbum) applications, would not use SQL to change stuff due to avoid sync surprises.
Another alternative is creating a Personal Book for each printed book so Logos library is complete (initial setup is a bit intensive).
I will be able to search Access's database much faster than old, slow Logos (at least that is the way it feels most of the time).
Thankful for Soiid State Disks (SSD) noticeably improving Logos and Verbum performance so am able to use s seven year old laptop.
Keep Smiling [:)]
You can "Print/Export" your Library to XML from the Library panel.
This is a reply to such and old post, I'm not sure if anyone will still read this. But here is the answer to those who don't understand:
I am one of the people who needs this, ... not because I want to print anything on paper, but rather because I want the all my Logos books in an Excel sheet where I also keep countless books from other libraries that are not part of the Logos universe. I guess to people who only have to deal with a handful of books outside of Logos this is not an issue.
