Hi,
I have a suggestion for improving the benefit that each user can draw from Logos:
PLEASE ADD A TIME-STAMP TO EVERY LOGOS BOOK.
That is, the time the book was written or the author lived (if available both) - and most importantly make these time stamps accessible for the user to change this data (including a reset button) since there are sometimes different opinions about exact dates.
This way Logos could become an even more powerful tool than it has ever been before. I think it would increase the benefit of Logos by a factor of 10x by just adding this detail.
Why? Well, you could very easily group books into collections that belong to a specific time period as for example the 1st century A.D. or the 15th or 16th century A.D. or any other specific date and/or you could eventually perform searches in any time-frame you like. (You could, for example not be interested in the whole reformation period, but only in the beginning years, so you could limit your search).
This would facilitate theological research by a huge factor and would transform Logos into a real research data base with the capability to perform much more specific research queries.
And as I am at it, I may add the important additional request to give out multiple and separate time-stamp in a book for secondary and for primary sources.
For example: If I look at the following book: ...
Josephus, Flavius ; Whiston, William: The works of Josephus: complete and unabridged. Peabody : Hendrickson, 1987
... I clearly have works written by Josephus before me, haven´t I? Well, no. You have a lot of Josephus, but you also have introductions, commentaries, footnotes, appendices of all sorts, additional texts ABOUT Josephs´ works that have been written by authors that have written in our time and not in the first century A.D.
However, in a search that includes this book - even if you have meticulously created your own collections, for example of the 1st century A.D. - you will end up with hundreds of false positive results in your primary source searches because of these inclusions of current authors texts in a primary source book.
So it would be more than fantastic to actually have the option to just search the original primary sources of a specific time period. I can't begin to describe what difference this would make.
Yes, I know I can create my own collections with my own time-tags. But this is a very tedious business, if you want to do it for thousands of books. And it is also limited by the problem just explained. Not to mention collection of authors in one book from different time periods.
Being able to actually be more selective about the way I could handle my library - that is, more like a proper data base than just a series of books - would make a world of a difference.
I think this would make so much more of a difference for the benefit of both Logos and the customers than many of these many newly added features - in the meantime a questionably overloaded feature-list - it would really make a huge difference.
I would be really thankful.
Please feel free to add your comments and support this request.
Regards
Philip
