Request a facility to add *.pdf and *.ePub books directly into LOGOS please.
It would be a great feature if one could directly add into individual LOGOS accounts, books in *.pdf and *.epub formats WITHOUT first converting them into to *.docx.
This feature would help LOGOS become, for each account, a unified single access linked library platform enabling readability and all other functions each individual subscriber.
Why this feature? Because most books are large in sized are therefore difficult to easily convert into other formats.
Even if LOGOS, within itself, provides an easy 'convert the format' feature, it will be of assistance.
The rest of the process to thereafter add in the converted book will be merely one of uploading the relevant converted book into one's own account.
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I agree.
I wonder if the comprehensive solution to our requests would then be that we request LOGOS to enable every account (having the same LOGOS ID) to be accessible across all devices, with each owners set of add-on books (in any of docx / epub / mobi formats) - but - with the brilliant LOGOS search, linked and other features to automatically kick-in once loaded?
As I'm a software geek, I can only speculate in hope this would be made possible. It would certainly be a significant stride forward ... I think.
And LOGOS could have their own disclaimers to protect themselves from copyright infringements into that portion of the feature for those add-on books.
Such a feature, if made available, would easily lift LOGOS from being truly a great service provider (or / platform / what have you), which it no doubt already is, for it is truly unique amongst it's peers, and would further transform it into an even more brilliant program!
Well, that's my opinion.
Tony.
(1) Yes, *.pages for MAC users like me, would be great too. I had refrained from adding that suggestion in earlier, only because of the possibility that direct *.pdf and *.epubs might be easier for the LOGOS team to incorporate as compared to *.pages documents, merely because the number of MAC based users might be significantly less in comparison to *.docx users.
(2) A Further Suggestion : Perhaps a detailed and dedicated video tutorial (Minimum Duration :30 mins.) will greatly help resolve the following :
(a) Converting into *.docx is still rather cumbersome. So, a video tutorial taking one step by step through the process would be great.
(b) I also wish I knew how to :
...i... Incorporate suitable headwords RECOGNISABLE AS SUCH by LOGOS into my *.docx documents;
...ii... Incorporate links and indexes into my *'docx documents suitable for LOGOS format.
And ...
If others think that this point (2) "A further Suggestion" of my post is helpful, perhaps this might be supported suitably?
That said, I am nevertheless grateful for at least having some facility at present to add my converted *.docx in. Not the easiest of options ... but ... better something than nothing! So, thank you LOGOS team and looking forward to your add-on support and improvement utilising these suggestions.
"I love Zotero's ability to manage/store and annotate PDF files. I am in academics and end up downloading quite a few PDF journal articles through my institution. I don't want to have to purchase all my journal articles through Logos (nor could I - many are unavailable). Additionally, it would great to be able to use Logos to store ALL my research, not just some of it. I was noticing this today as I worked on a Clippings document of quotes for an upcoming research paper. It was great until I downloaded an article and could no longer do my work in Logos. I had to switch to a different app to complete my research. This would help me a lot! I wonder if others might benefit from a feature like this?"
And I agree that it's beyond Logos to compete with PDF resources. There are just too many papers, journals, articles, blogs, website print-to-PDFs, etc. for them to ever offer the same content in a paid format. I'd like to keep Zotero for citations, and maybe have a way to export PDFs directly into Logos for consumption (with all the Logos bibliographic book fields automatically populated by the Zotero integration / plug in).
And for the record, this PDF feature would be far more useful to me than an a "Paper Builder" feature. I'm totally fine with my Word and Zotero setup, and I think Logos would have to spend a lot of time reinventing the wheel if they wanted to compete with that. But adding PDFs would be a super great way to improve life for academic writers.
May the Lord bless you all.
I love that you can import your books into Logos by converting doc files. Please do the same with just importing documents\Books that are in PDf format.
You can do this indirectly as you can open a PDF in Word and save it in docx format. It is my understanding that this would be a costly addition to Logos.
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."
Hi MJ.
G'day to you.
I accept your input that for LOGOS to add in a system to directly read other formats (other .docx) might be too expensive for LOGOS to pursue. So that should put my suggestion to … rest-in-peace ... from a LOGOS perspective presently.
The manual process that you suggested mixes up footnotes, page nos., headings, footers, etc., all into the converted text and requires too much effort to 'clean up'.
Given therefore, the adverse cost-benefit issues involved for LOGOS, I conclude that it might be therefore wiser for individual users to explore how to separately (outside logos) convert files into ACCEPTABLE .docx formats and then to upload them into 'Personal Books' using software that is available for purchase and then to upload the completed files. That appears to be the only present alternative.
One final thing though …. I wonder what cost effective [free is best … 😊 ] software would be the best recommended solutions that would help LOGOS users which when sourced from outside LOGOS might be useful to fulfil the present need.
Meanwhile, MJ, once again, thanks for that input.
Blessings,
In Christ Jesus,
Tony.
I've taken the approach of macros in Word but it varies a great deal on the content and format of the PDF's one is trying to convert. My biggest issue is the end-of-line conversion.
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."
And I've decided to learn 'Visual Basic' to see if that helps converting 'pdf / 'epub docs into acceptable LOGOS formats.
Perhaps, if I learn some of that programming skill, I'll be able to leverage that to generate more 'LOGOS readable / searchable resources' for myself.
But even if that works, the agony may not end there.
I'll still not be able to view 'Personal Books' on iPad / iPhones.
As far as that is concerned, I join with many others wishing that this were made possible … SOONER … rather than in the indefinite 'By and by'.
I understand that LOGOS cannot presently support other versions such as .epub, .pdf, etc. to be uploaded and read as 'viewable' 'PersonalBooks'.
I understand they also may not even add in, readability of such books by, as a minimum, enabling referencing, meaning showing up the scripture references using LOGOS while one hovers over the .pdf text stored on my device. That would be a good feature to start with. Search functions, etc. could follow in time.
But … not being able to access personal books on iPad and iPhones … that is a MUST HAVE feature and should be prioritised by LOGOS. But … that's my opinion.
Conclusive suggestions:
Perhaps LOGOS could prioritise incorporating the following systematically:
(1) Enable viewing 'Personal Books' on iPads / iPhones.
(2) Enable 'hover' features to show up scriptures even on .pdf and .epub books even if they are not uploaded as 'Personal Books'.
(3) Enable direct uploading of .pdf / .epub / .mobi books into LOGOS. OR
Enable LOGOS features to work on books stored in a dedicated LOGOS folder stored locally and accessible to the LOGOS search / read engine for this purpose only. This might even save space and costs for LOGOS servers to store 'Personal Books'.
(4) Enable features such as 'hover / read / search / etc.' for all books to be directly loaded into 'Personal Books' with full features such as … Read / Search / etc.
Perhaps some day this 'wish list' might work.
That said, I thoroughly enjoy LOGOS. It is even now an excellent programme.
Blessings,
In Christ Jesus,
Tony.
I have removed the "bug" tag because this is clearly a feature request.