Personal Books vs. Kindle Digital Content

The only two reading apps I use are Logos and Kindle. Adding ebooks to Kindle is Much easier than the Personal Books feature in Logos.

As I understand it, I have to convert an ePub to a Word file in order to use it. While on Kindle, I can simply email it or upload it to their site. No conversion necessary.

As a Kindle and Logos user, what reason would I have to using Logos Personal Books rather than the Kindle option. Am I missing something? Seems like less issues are likely to occur if I'm not converting anything.

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DMB

Well, reading-wise, Kindle's going to be the better device. That's if, your Table of Contents and footnotes come in correctly. That's always the issue in Amazon.

But Personal Books become invaluable, when you need to do searches or link to Logos books.

Easier Personal Book creation is not likely in the cards, though.

Paul Gibson

what reason would I have to using Logos Personal Books rather than the Kindle option.

Please be aware that Logos Personal Books are not supported on Logos Mobile. If you're planning on reading on a phone or tablet, you'll have to buy the Kindle version. I see you posted this in the Logos Desktop App forum, so this may not be an issue for you. I'd you do want Personal Books on Logos Mobile, please vote for it:

https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-mobile-app/posts/allow-us-to-use-our-personal-books-on-the-mobile-app

Frank Sauer

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1311683#Comment_1311683

I rarely use the Kindle app, but do consistently use the Play Books app from Google and that also is a much easier upload in comparison to Logos PBB. Though I'm not sure a comparison between the two is fair to Logos - was the PBB ever intended to compete with the ebook options or just provide a way to engage your personal resources in you Logos Study?

JT (alabama24)

As a Kindle and Logos user, what reason would I have to using Logos Personal Books rather than the Kindle option. Am I missing something? Seems like less issues are likely to occur if I'm not converting anything.

Your goal is unclear. Why are you creating personal books? Why are you sending things to kindle?

Matt Hamrick

Using Personal Books they become searchable just like any other resource. For this fact I prefer making personal books which is not hard to do.

Bill Anderson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1311708#Comment_1311708

… was the PBB ever intended to compete with the ebook options or just provide a way to engage your personal resources in you Logos Study?

The latter, not the former — and specifically for personal Logos study on the desktop. Bob Pritchett wrote at length about this some years ago. For a number of years people, including me, created PBBs of many public domain titles that didn’t appear in Logos (for example E.W. Hengstenberg’s 4-volume Christology of the Old Testament — I believe it still may be available on the Files forum, and yes, Christology is still not in Logos). IIRC, Bob specifically said public domain books are in Logos’ wheelhouse, and so PBBs of these titles would be competition vs. Logos (I am paraphrasing). That led many of us to not offer on the Files forum public domain titles that currently were in Logos and to inform folks who contributed PBBs that were in Logos of this unwritten rule. Not allowing PBBs on mobile was likely intended to limit the wider use of PBBs (and perhaps deter folks from making them). Many people have pleaded with Logos to reconsider this, but I don’t see it happening.