What happens to your work in Logos when you die?

Logan Mann · 2025-05-20T16:33:43+00:00

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I used to do sermon study and sermon notes with pen and ink. Today, I do that work entirely in Logos. One of my sons is currently in Seminary at SBTS and plans on going into full time ministry. I think several of my kids, and hopefully my grandkids one day when I have them, might be interested in having access to the work that I did. Since we don't leave behind journals in the same format that we used to, how do you plan on giving access to your work to your family or church when you die? Is there already a mechanism for this built into Logos?

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JJ Wurtz

I’ve thought a lot about this. I plan to will my account to our diocese. My feeling is, I would ensure your sons have access to your account to ensure if something happens to you they have the ability to take it over. Additionally make sure they know how to get into it. Just my thoughts.

Lew Worthington

There's a huge pile of forum conversation about this topic. The central issue seems to be that a license transfer can only happen once. It would be great to have a heir willing and able to make use of that lovely library. But those books will apparently be lost after they are gone. While Logos possibly offers a better situation than other digital formats (say, Kindle), the succession of resources is much more wasteful than with traditional formats. Besides, I don't know anyone who has invested 10% in Kindle format what many of us have invested in Logos.

For those of us with significant investments and no interested heirs, the situation is even worse.

I don't have many answers, but I'll be reading this conversation with interest.

EastTN

My younger sister is a math professor at a Christian college. My current plan is for her to ask her colleagues in the Bible department to find a deserving student who will use my resources for the benefit of the kingdom.

MJ. Smith

I may have misunderstood but I thought it was resources you could leave in a will - not an account. I would make a group for those I wanted to have access to my sermons, notes, etc. and make my files viewable to that group.

DAL

Your works follow you when you die! (Revelation 14:13) 😂😂😂

EastTN

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1369661#Comment_1369661

That's my understanding as well.

Robert Williams

Sometimes it feels like it would be so much simpler to just leave login information to someone in a will, along with clear instructions on how to keep things going. But planning for death—it's never that straightforward. It can be overwhelming and emotionally exhausting.

John Kaess

The current position that Logos has: that your account, and as far as I know, all your resources can only be transferred once is completely unreasonable and indefensible. I know it is indefensible because I've started 3 threads about this and asked Logos to explain why, and they have refused to respond in any way, which de facto means their policy is indefensible.

Many of us have invested tens of thousands of dollars in our libraries, just as if they were physical books. I feel that their great fear is that without the one transfer rule they think a secondary market would open up for buying and selling resources, and that packages of resources bought at discount could be broken up and sold for profit, but that is an entirely different thing in principle and in fact from limiting the transfer of an entire library/license in total being transferred or even sold.

It is the breaking up of a library that would lead to problems, but passing an entire account and library to a person or an organization, or even selling the entire library as a whole would have no downside that I can see and would not cause the problems which Logos fears.

I am confident that this thread, like all the prior threads about this, is a waste of time, but nevertheless, I'm going to participate whenever this issue comes up.

GaoLu

I am taking mine with me.