Can you get books for free on Logos if you already own them?
Can you explain a bit what you are talking about? If I already own an ebook, which you can read on any device that can use Logos, what would change, if you get the same book again? Or are you talking about handing books on to other people? But if we are talking about things like the "free book of the month", they could just get them for free on their own account.
Hi Kris - and welcome to the forums
Do you mean if you own them in print?
If so, the answer is no - they need to be purchased again as digital copies to work in the Logos system.
You can add books you own to your Print Library - see https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/8688477672589-Print-Library-Catalog for details - which would mean they appear in searches but to get the content the books need to be purchased.
Graham
What about Kindle ebooks?
Possible, but it's a monkey puzzle of legal, ethical, and practical issues. Among them: local fair use regulations and the resulting Personal Books not being available on the Logos mobile apps or the web app.
If you own Logos Gold or higher then you have a feature that allows you to scan the ISBN and add the book to your digital library. This obviously is not free because you must first own the physical book.
https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/8688477672589-Print-Library-Catalog
This obviously is not free because you must first own the physical book.
You don't actually need to own the physical book - you can add it to your Logos Print Library Catalog whether you own it or not (clearly you can't scan the ISBN if you don't have access to a copy of the book but you can add it to the Library in different ways).
I agree with you in principle, but this seems like it would be frowned upon. [:#]
I agree with you in principle, but this seems like it would be frowned upon.
Why would it? There are many legitimate ways to have access to books you don't own (school library, church library, Google books, borrow from a friend, archive.org etc.)
The Print Library feature does not allow you to read a book you don't own in Logos. It only allows you to have an easy way to search the books you have specifically marked. You could choose to use this to represent books in your "ideal library" or whatever. Ownership of the physical book doesn't play any role in this.
Note that you already can search books in the Logos catalog that you don't own. This just allows you to easily narrow that search to a specific list of books.
The same what Graham said above and what Andrew (who speaks officially for Logos) confirmed. You can - and in my mind should - put those books from the Logos catalog that you own in Kindle format into the Print Library. I did, too.
Then they will show up in some searches - it won't allow you to read them in your Logos application and you won't get a free copy of those in Logos, but you will reminded of them when needed. There is nothing whatsoever shady or legally complicated about that. I use mytags in the library to tell me the actual format of my Print Library books.
Andrew, can you please clarify that comment. Do you need to add them to the Print Library or is there some other trick
You can do a Bookstore search to search books that you don't own. With a Books search you can limit the search to just the books you have added to your Print Library.
Forgive my ignorance.
What benefit is searching anything (Logos catalogue or physical book that has been scanned into my Logos library) if I cannot read the results of that search?
Forgive my ignorance. What benefit is searching anything (Logos catalogue or physical book that has been scanned into my Logos library) if I cannot read the results of that search?
with the Print Library books you can read the result and a small paragraph around it. This helps to decide whether it's actually worth bothering to locate that physical or electronic book (maybe even buying the Logos edition) or whether the result is meaningless or at least not contributing to your research. Sometimes the search result snippet may be all you need: confirmation that a quote actually is from that exact book.
Thank you. This makes a lot more sense now.
Another benefit, if you have the physical book, is that the index in your physical book might be limited or non-existent. And anyway, indexes are only good for looking up certain things. If you wanted to find where a particular quote existed in that book, or do a more detailed search, Logos Search can do that for you. It will tell you where (what page) in the book the thing(s) you're searching for appear(s), and then you can go to your physical book to read around that context.
Thanks, Rosie.
I can see the high value in that.
