Search for words in books without page numbers
Book: Carl A. Volz, The Medieval Church: From the Dawn of the Middle Ages to the Eve of the Reformation (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 2011).
Question: What is the point in having purchased a book from the Logos library that does not have page numbers (and there is a printed edition!), and whose thematic index also does not link to the places in the book where the themes are?
And, worse, the search in the Windows Logos app within the book does not give the exact locations in the text where the entries are! For example, a search for 'Abelard' indicates 19 entries in the book, but you have to be the one to look for where these entries are in the middle of a huge pile of text!! Which, obviously, is not manageable...
Or am I missing something?...
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Mário Rui Mota said:
Question: What is the point in having purchased a book from the Logos library that does not have page numbers (and there is a printed edition!), and whose thematic index also does not link to the places in the book where the themes are?
Answer: To read it.
[This is a FLEB title, not a Logos one. It is auto converted from the publisher and is not a Logos edition resource.]
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Ok... thanks for the reply.
[I have exported the text to Word and search there, and obtain a precise location of the words searched]
[The same when I want to listen the book, is better in Word, more precise, without breaks...]
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The search issue does not sound right. More troubleshooting would be needed. Can you provide a screenshot?
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One way that the Logos platform itself can add a reading position for citing books without page numbers is through a % reading indicator. This is a universal indicator that, together with the Chapter-Section citation standards, would greatly help with citation.
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Not being disagreeable, but percents depend on the digital versions' content presentation. Digital book specific.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Share > Copy link provides an article number and offset e.g. https://ref.ly/logosres/9781596365469?art=r2.1&off=21, where r 2.1 is relative to the TOC, and the offset is a number of characters from the start of heading 2.1.
Dave
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