My Misguided Peeking at my Logos Library Book Count

So... do many of you do this also?

I go to Logos.com to order a book (for download, Logos 4, love the downloads!). So I find what I want, then see it's in a collection with a bunch of other stuff for only 10x the price so I click that instead.

Then I see "related" items, and several minutes and many dollars later, I click to place the order and then think, "Okay, now HOW am I going to pay for all this?" (This isn't my point here. I KNOW many of you do THIS! Wink )

Then I do the download thing, restart Logos, update, start the re-index, etc.

->But what I REALLY can't wait to see is: HOW MUCH HAS MY LIBRARY BOOK COUNT GONE UP NOW?

If it goes up to the next hundred mark, I am thrilled. If it happens to push me to the next THOUSANDS mark (happens to all of us only 2, 3, or 4 times on the average), I AM ELATED!!!

***It is almost like I like that my book count went up MORE THAN I LIKE THE BOOKS THEMSELVES!***

Is that misguided or what???

But I do it. I suspect some of you do too.

I don't think this is a sin.... but it is very fleshy isn't it?

We can be such knuckleheads.

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Tom Bartzsch

I almost missed this post - I was on the Logos website to check if any of my prepubs have moved from N/A to an estimated ship date, since I'm close to cresting another hundred marker.[;)]

Tom

Fred Chapman

I don't think this is a sin.... but it is very fleshy isn't it?

We can be such knuckleheads.

I'm not sure if it's a sin or not...if it is I have sinned to the level of L4 Platinum. Take peace from the words of Paul

"For what I am doing, I do not understand. For what I will to do, that I do not practice; but what I hate, that I do. If, then, I do what I will not to do, I agree with the law that it is good. But now, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me."

Blame it on Adam[:P]

Greg Perry

>>>Blame it on Adam

And Bob Pritchett!

Matthew C Jones

>>>Blame it on Adam

And Bob Pritchett!

Adam, meet Bob.[6] [6] Bob, meet Adam

Bob & Adam, [6] [6] [A] meet Matthew

spitzerpl

Guilty on all accounts. In fact just yesterday I reviewed an order that should be coming in the mail soon to see how many resources it will add to my library. In the original beta the only way to get a book count was to run a collection for rating:>=0. I was thrilled that the ability was so much easier then in 3.0. Logos knew what they were doing when they added the number to the Library filter box...

Nina Jones

***It is almost like I like that my book count went up MORE THAN I LIKE THE BOOKS THEMSELVES!***

Y'all remember to take your wives out to dinner often and buy her lots of flowers while you buy all those books!! [pi]

TCBlack

<ahem category="mockingly self righteous">I have absolutely no idea what any of you are talking about. </ahem>

Nina, I'll be sure to do just that.

Matthew C Jones

I can see now this is gonna cost me.

I purchased my wife Nina the Bible Study Library license in January. She now has a netbook and knows how to sign in to the forums. She is delighted to have her own account. (How come there was no caveat about spouses with dual licenses? Bob?)

Homework assignment Build a Caveat label using the following terms: Quid pro quo, "the puppy followed me home", stalker, impeding freedom of expression, 5000 resources, Camp Logos Alaskan Cruise, pizza tonight.

TCBlack

Matthew, Matthew, Matthew. I'm just shaking my head trying to figure out how to respond. Nina, Do you have any suggestions?

[6] This could be fun!

Nina Jones

Camp Logos Alaskan Cruise, pizza tonight.

Sounds good to me! [:D]

NetworkGeek

Maybe this will satisfy the itch or spur on some new resource purchases....

Dave Hooton

Nina

Your husband needs prayer (or maybe a second job)[:)]

Bill Coley

In the first week after I downloaded my first-ever Logos base package earlier this year, I looked adoringly at all the packages I didn't have, all the resources others in the forums did have, and all the resources I was determined to obtain.

In the second week of ownership of my first-ever Logos base package, I began to discern a competitive, "Keep up with the Joneses" spirit in me, which I didn't like and from which I began slowly to detach.

My approach to Logos is healthier now than it was in those first weeks, but I know the Joneses left their seed: When notice of today's resource update download arose in the lower right hand corner of my PC's monitor, a small, but not-so-still voice spoke, saying, "Look at all those MBs! I wonder if you're getting anything new? Maybe the Logos servers messed up and sent you BDAG, or ICNT, or MIC, KEY, or even MOUSE!..."

Continue to pray for me.

Bill Coley

Matthew C Jones

I began to discern a competitive, "Keep up with the Joneses" spirit

Do you have any idea how hard it is to be the pacesetter? We Joneses are exhausted!

btw: I really don't have 5000 resources. There are a few people who seem to have everything but we don't hear from them much. I must confess I have the same moments of self examination where I question my motives. But I can honestly say I enjoy Bible study more with Logos and enjoy sharing with others the many things I am learning. My wife was amazed watching the Passage guide work and likes the Bible People, Places & Things in Logos 4. Trading off creature comforts and temporal amusements for tools that help me study the Bible seems like a good trade to me.

Kendall Sholtess

Is this not the LOGOS NERD forum? I can't believe I am hearing so many people thinking exactly like I do. My friends are all drooling over iPads, and here I am spending WAY too much time drooling over things like the BDAG/HALOT bundle which I hope to have someday. [:$] Don't tell my wife please.

Rosie Perera

Is this not the LOGOS NERD forum?

Yes, doesn't it smell nice? [:)]

David A. Peterson

Trading off creature comforts and temporal amusements for tools that help me study the Bible seems like a good trade to me.

Matt, I must agree. Logos is my only hobby. When compared to the price of a fishing boat, reel, tackle, the gas to drive to various lakes, etc... I venture to say that while I may spend more upfront on Logos, it is a permanent resource, as opposed to fishing, or green fees and golf balls.

In Christ,

Dave

Bill Moore

What if the resource count were the actual book count? That may really spur a "keeping up with the Joneses" (just a saying, Matthew and Nina [:)]) I really do not know how many books are in my Logos library, the point being driven home when I saw the total after the Calvin 500 download was some 36 or whatever less than I had anticipated.

Milkman

hey Dave, have you ever thought of taking a note pad or your lap top with you when your fishing. Just think of having a 'range' finder downloaded into your lap top while you look around at Gods' creation. just think of throwing out a PopR hoping and of course praying that a huge smally would smack that top water bait all the while parsing your NT passages. And if the fish aren't biteing, you could look for new resources to download while you troll in your new high-performance bass boat a shinny Skeeter 23 would be something eh? Not that I do that, but our Golden retriever is named "Skeeter" after the boat.

Now when it comes to golfing. wait a minute there. think of the stats you could enter with your lap top in your bag. Take it out and enter the appropiate scores into Excel, L4 running in the background, and at the end of each hole find out where you're at, par or under par. Now if you're golfing and it's busy, then of course you have time to wait between each hole. Humm, I wonder what you should do? Hey wait a tick. Why don't you serf on over to the new resources page and look, only look, at what's new. Now because you don't spend a lot of money on extra alcohol or nasty drugs, you do of course have money that you have already saved by not purchasing these things. What would Jesus do? I really think He would want you to a be good student of the Word who handles it accurately. Well, you can't do that if you don't have the appropriate Hebrew or Greek lexicons or dictionaries. I can almost hear him (note the small cap 'h') whispering ever so gently, go ahead, pull out the Visa and procure just one or maybeee two books.

Imagine reading the introductions or prefaces of these new downloaded books between each hole - ahhh golf is great, fishing is next, but downloading reigns supreme.

Enjoy the day.

BTW - anyone know of any new books coming out this Friday

Jacob Hantla

And I thought I was a Logos Bibliomaniac. Thankfully I've not demonstrated any of this book-counting behavior...yet

Ward Walker

Trading off creature comforts and temporal amusements for tools that help me study the Bible seems like a good trade to me.

Concur.

Although I'd still like the creature comfort of a tablet PC. [8-|]

Mike Childs

Man, I hate it when I get busted, and you just busted me.