Print Library Resources require new license be purchased?

I was excited to have the ability to add print books "I own" to my Logos 10 collection.

I added two owned resources successfully via the mobile application. They do appear as "resources" in my library, but only as "Preview" but I have an option to BUY digital?

I expected to not have to buy these "owned" resources again.

Are there certain resources that be added without an additional purchase?

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JT (alabama24)

Welcome Don! [:)]

I expected to not have to buy these "owned" resources again.

You do not have to purchase them again... but you will not have full access to the Logos edition either. There are three primary benefits of this feature, from my persepective:

When searching your Library, you will be alerted to items in your print library which you would not otherwise be aware.
You have the ability to search the book and get page numbers (when availble in Logos)
You can create a citation for your print book within Logos.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239454#Comment_1239454

And ... be reminded you already own a copy, before buying a second. Very easy to do.

Mark Smith

Don, I think you misunderstand, which would be easy to do. I wondered about what Logos was delivering when I first heard of this feature.

The Print Library feature is not a way to get your print books into Logos without having to buy them through Logos, as it might first appear. Licensing fees and Logos' cost of production cost something so Logos cannot just add them at no cost to your digital resources.

What Logos has managed to do without any cost to us is allow us to search our print books, which I hope you see as a very nice addition to Logos' feature set. You'll be able to turn to those print books to find the search hits. So, you don't get to access those books through Logos (they are, after all, print, not digital books), but you can search them through Logos.

Richard Rioux

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239552#Comment_1239552

Another thing that the posts above didn't mention is...

How would Faithlife (Logos) know that you actually do own the Print version of a particular book that you claim to own and would like them to give the digital Logos version for Free.

There are a lot of dishonest people out there, even among Christians.

Richard Rioux

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239858#Comment_1239858

Just to add to my post above...

It would be very easy to go to any (physical) Library that has a Christian books section (e.g., a public library or a local Church library or even a friend's home) and scan a bunch of those books with your smartphone and then claim that you personally own all those books.

Furthermore, since we can also manually add ANY book to the Logos Print library, you could add just about ANY book to it and then claim that you own it. That way, you could get ANY and ALL your Logos books for FREE.

Mike Binks

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239860#Comment_1239860

Just to add to my post above...

It would be very easy to go to any (physical) Library that has a Christian books section (e.g., a public library or a local Church library or even a friend's home) and scan a bunch of those books with your smartphone and then claim that you personally own all those books.

Furthermore, since we can also manually add ANY book to the Logos Print library, you could add just about ANY book to it and then claim that you own it. That way, you could get ANY and ALL your Logos books for FREE.

It would be a pointless activity.

Say I went to the library and borrowed 'Andy Cap and the meaning of Life'. Once I had brought it home and scanned it in I would be able to find various references and, maybe, the page numbers where they resided but I would need to go back to the library and borrow the book again to read the actual content.

I can tell you for free that Andy Cap's philosophy would advise against expending the energy.

Richard Rioux

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239874#Comment_1239874

Yes, I agree that it would be a "pointless activity" because the Logos Print Library doesn't work that way.

That said, what the OP was saying is that he thought FL would give us a FREE "digital Logos copy" of all these print books that we scanned into the software.

xnman

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239860#Comment_1239860

Just to add to my post above...

It would be very easy to go to any (physical) Library that has a Christian books section (e.g., a public library or a local Church library or even a friend's home) and scan a bunch of those books with your smartphone and then claim that you personally own all those books.

Furthermore, since we can also manually add ANY book to the Logos Print library, you could add just about ANY book to it and then claim that you own it. That way, you could get ANY and ALL your Logos books for FREE.

Yes, one can always work around things.... either by doing it immorally or being unethical. But a Christian does not do these things. IMHO ... [8-|]

Richard Rioux

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1240333#Comment_1240333

No We Don't !!!

[H]

Sean

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1239552#Comment_1239552

I wondered about what Logos was delivering when I first heard of this feature.

The Print Library feature is not a way to get your print books into Logos without having to buy them through Logos, as it might first appear. Licensing fees and Logos' cost of production cost something so Logos cannot just add them at no cost to your digital resources.

What Logos has managed to do without any cost to us is allow us to search our print books, which I hope you see as a very nice addition to Logos' feature set. You'll be able to turn to those print books to find the search hits. So, you don't get to access those books through Logos (they are, after all, print, not digital books), but you can search them through Logos.

This is indeed a nice feature. Back in the day when I was the faculty librarian at a Bible college, I would have scanned the codes of a ton of books I didn't own simply to have another tool for helping students find information they were looking for.

Now I look at it as a way to get more functionality of my (dwindling) print library beyond their limited supplied indices. These are resources that I don't yet feel are worth it for me to buy again in Logos. FL I'm sure has, at least in part, added this feature to encourage me to do so in the future. Some day, for some of them, I may do so if the price is right.