In God's Image: Recognizing the Profoundly Impaired as Persons by Archbishop Peter Comensoli
I purchased the Faithlife version of this book today. The main reason I did so was to take advantage of the hyperlinks and other connections that Verbum offers. The result was disappointing, to put it mildly. The footnotes are poorly done. When I hover my cursor over many of them, what I see is the beginning of that chapter, not the footnote itself. The actual footnotes are included at the end of each chapter, but I cannot access many of them from the notes in the text. Also, a number of references to Church documents in the book's text have no hyperlinks at all.
This book should work quite well in Verbum, but it does not. I would have done better to buy the Kindle version in the Kindle app. I regret buying it from Verbum.
I'm posting this in the hope that someone who works for Faithlife might see this, check it out, and possibly make the needed corrections. It's a long shot, but it's worth it.
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Calling to return the book provides you the opportunity to provide feedback to an actual person.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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That's very true. However, another reason why I purchased this book (among other books) is that I want to support FL every now and then. I also want to encourage FL to offer more books of this type. For these reasons, I'd rather not get a refund even if I am entitled to one.
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Mark Nolette said:
purchased the Faithlife version of this book today. The main reason I did so was to take advantage of the hyperlinks and other connections that Verbum offers. The result was disappointing, to put it mildly. The footnotes are poorly done. When I hover my cursor over many of them, what I see is the beginning of that chapter, not the footnote itself. The actual footnotes are included at the end of each chapter, but I cannot access many of them from the notes in the text. Also, a number of references to Church documents in the book's text have no hyperlinks at all.
This book should work quite well in Verbum, but it does not.
I think the point is that this is an eBook edition, not a Logos Research edition.
Have joy in the Lord!
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NB.Mick said:
I think the point is that this is an eBook edition, not a Logos Research edition.
I understand that. However, on the Faithlife eBooks website, I read this:
Connect to Your Logos Bible Software Library
Faithlife Ebooks connects your personal reading material with the power of Logos Bible Software, integrating all your Bible study materials with your Christian book collection. This integrated library creates a unique study experience to give you a rich, biblical background for any ebook you read.
I understood that to mean that Faithlife eBooks are fully integrated into the Logos/Verbum ecosystem. If I am incorrect, what does it mean?
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It means that ebooks are run through an automatic process that tags Biblical references and a bit more. Logos Readers' edition get a bit more thorough coding and Logos Research editions get the full treatment which often includes a human component.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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MJ. Smith said:
It means that ebooks are run through an automatic process that tags Biblical references and a bit more. Logos Readers' edition get a bit more thorough coding and Logos Research editions get the full treatment which often includes a human component.
Which in the average customers terms means the marketing of FL eBooks is misleading, overstated and will lead to a disappointing experience of the resource and that the reader experience may be less than that of a kindle version of the resource in some aspects.
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DIsciple II said:
Which in the average customers terms means the marketing of FL eBooks is misleading, overstated and will lead to a disappointing experience of the resource and that the reader experience may be less than that of a kindle version of the resource in some aspects.
Someone who happens upon the FL eBooks site and reads what I quoted above, noting no disclaimers or any info telling that person that these are not tagged like LR edition resources, would assume (as I did) that the FL eBooks are tagged in the same way as LR resources. Moreover, the ability to purchase many FL eBooks on logos.com or verbum.com, again with no disclaimers, would also suggest that FL eBooks will 'perform' as LR resources do.
Incidentally, I bought another FL eBook at the same time I bought the above-named one - Kinship in the Household of God. Its hyperlinks are, in general, just like an LR resource... except for the odd tendency to have whole paragraphs of text hyperlinked as well, for no apparent reason...
I'll steer clear of FL eBooks in the future.
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The footnotes malfunctioning as described is an authentic problem even for ebooks.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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