The BestCommentaries Sale is underway again, and I couldn't stay away. Among a few other books I got Karen Jobes' 1 Peter from the BECNT series. This series seems to be very prestigious, has stellar authors and is well-loved by experts doing reviews and thus comes up quite frequently to high-ranking positions on bestcommentaries.com. I opened the book and read the introduction - and I liked a lot of what Ms Jobes wrote - but all her references to other commentaries etc. lacked links to those books! BECNT utilizes a modern form of attributing citations - there are less footnotes and more in-text brackets like (McKnight 1996: 35) which of course refers to page 35 of Scot McKnight's 1996 NIVAC commentary on 1 Peter which is in Logos and should be linked but isn't. Actually, it seems no such citation is linked at all! I put in three or four typo reports, then stopped and tried to verify in other BECNT resources.
Since BECNT doesn't come in base packages and usually is very expensive, I have accumulated only a small number of them: Only Yarbrough's Letters of John, Schreiner on Romans and Moo on Galatians in my quite extensive Logos library (and proud to own Koestenberger on John, but unfortunately only in paper - that is a rant for another day). The missing links seem to be endemic in at least two of those three, too - I can see that some links are present in the Galatians volume, while the other two seem to look as bleak and eBook-like as 1 Peter.
Really, I tend to find BECNT too expensive, period. But I understand that top quality may afford a top price - but this isn't it. Having only bible references reliably linked, but missing out on resource links makes a resource fulfilling the definition of a Reader's edition, not a Logos Research edition as should be.
No I don't want to give back this one book - I want FL to produce top quality books, which for the asking price of BECNT volumes involves doing the homework of putting in all those links to other Logos resources. For all of the catalogue it's overdue to bring forward a crowd-source-solution for supplying links. Please consider this.
