Please allow us to access, read, search, etc. our personal (user-created) books on the mobile app.
I'm sorry we've not been able to address this. We know how valuable this is to many of you. Improvements to our book publishing tools is a part of our medium-term strategy but unfortunately not something we have resources to prioritize this year or likely next.
Thanks for the clarity, @Phil Gons (Logos). As a user who would love to have this feature, I don't "like" your statement, though.
Thank you for the response @Phil Gons (Logos). I appreciate that.
Yes!!!¡!!!!!!
It would be extremely helpful. Mobile use would be greatly enhanced! I often go to find something that I know is there, only to realize it was in a personal book.
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Indeed! I find it very strange that there is the option within the personal book information, to share on your linked mobile devices, but they do not show up on the devices at all…
Yes, please ! This could be an enormous aid for seminary students, and ministers alike.
A long, long, long time ago, when Logos first added the capability for Personal Books, we were told that, at some point, the Personal Books would be available even on our mobile platforms. This capability has never been added. The Mobile platforms for Logos are fantastic—they truly are. Just about anything that anyone would need to do on a regular basis, one can do in the Mobile App. There are a few limitations, but nothing that doesn’t really make sense. Mobile platforms are limited in their processing power, storage, screen space, etc., etc., etc.
However, our Personal Books should be made available for these mobile platforms. I don’t know about other users’ Logos Libraries, but mine has over 15,000 titles and takes up a huge chunk of space on my hard drive. My Personal Books are only a few MB. When in comparison to the size and complexity of most users’ libraries, adding a few personal books shouldn’t really be an issue.
I’m not asking for these personal books to be shared with others—although I have seen a few lists of PBs out there. I would just like to be able to use my PBs on my Mobile Device—just like any other resource.
Thanks for your consideration in this!
There's already a suggestion for that - it tops the list of most-voted feature enhancement for many years now.
I’ve also added a new post for this idea.
To add to the discussion here, as I consider the capabilities of the Mobile App, uploading a PB for use on the Mobile App is really no different than being able to view your Notes on the Mobile App. Now, FL/Logos might say, “Well, then, just use your Notes feature!” But the Notes feature is much different than a PB! As many other posters have said, they use the PBs in a much different way than they do Notes. Notes are attached to a particular verse. It is not a resource in itself. But, my main point is this: If the Logos Mobile App has the capability add a note with 1) formatting, 2) references, 3) tagging, 4) etc., etc., etc., then why is it so difficult for Logos to have a PB available, which, in essence, is just a glorified note?
I have been with Logos since v. 1.0 and I really have very little to complain about the software. Never have and probably never will. I use it absolutely every day for my devotions, study, research, sermon and lesson prep. There is very, very little I would want to change. But this feature, ever since it came out, across the board with all users who like the feature, every single user I have come across has had the same request: make PBs available on the Mobile App—and this request has been around as long as PBs!!!! The software builds the books for us. If our Notes are seamlessly uploaded and integrated in less than a second to the cloud storage for our account, why can’t our PBs, which are already built, already associated with our account, simply be sent up to the cloud as well?
Again, I have no complaints with Logos Software. But this feature seems to have OVERWHELMING support by the user community. We have been asking for this feature for YEARS. Why the delay? Why the dismissals by Logos? Why not just make this feature available? Put the discontent to rest! Don’t be like Microsoft and Apple and other mega software companies who ignore their users and then do the opposite of what they want. I’m not trying to be mean or crass or ungracious. But, please, Logos, you want people to use your software in a way that helps them in their ministry, right? If so, then this is one feature that would help us in our ministry!
And, I also find it incredibly interesting that this post, to which I am replying, was posted by Phil Gons (Logos), who is the VP and GM, Bible Study Products, Faithlife. If even the senior employees of FL/Logos are asking for this feature, isn’t it time they put it into practice?
Please listen to your customers!
Thank you for your interest and passion for this feature. We'd still definitely like to solve this. The reason for the delay isn't because we don't understand it's important to many of you but because it's a surprisingly large undertaking in both work and ongoing cost. As we prioritize work to do, we have to ensure that the return on investment is good and it aligns with our current strategy. I do expect this will get some attention as some point in the not-too-distant future, but it doesn't meet the criteria to be an immediate priority, unfortunately. Thank you for continuing to express your interest in this work.
Please vote for adding Personal Books to Logos Mobile:
Please allow PB on mobile app.
If this is not a high priority, then what features do you folks deem higher priority? The only thing I can think that would be a higher priority is better search capability - Verbum is clunky with searches and this is being kind. I end up using google to find documents and then go to verbum for the principle source.
The issue runs very deep in the Logos structure. As you are no longer converting old texts, no longer keeping up with recent church documents released, not deliberately expanding the denominational resources, being slow in expanding languages … mind you this are all likely solid business decisions so this is not a complaint but rather an observation … some user groups such as the German language group, the Restoration (Church of Christ group), a Lutheran subgroup etc. have essentially worked to fill in the gaps. This means they are producing e-book and readers' edition levels that extend Logos capabilities. Some of these are quite sophisticated such a tri-lingual, morph tagged version of the creed. The result is that there are a significant number of "personal books" that should have a position between eBooks and Readers editions in the Logos environment.
The current direction of Logos appears to be concentrating on the core customer base and underserving the more liberal and liturgical church base e.g. never correcting the problems with the implementation of church calendars which leads them to be expensive to maintain and slow to be added, not accounting for multiple lectionaries in the sermon management software despite the season of creation becoming official in some major denominations, … The result, judging by the forums, is a decrease in enthusiasm for recommending Logos to their friends and colleagues. Expanding the usefulness of "personal books" i.e. publicly available resources in areas of Logos' weakness is a quick and inexpensive way to shore up support compared to the alternatives.
Welll… We can already make a book in MS Word…. and we can compile it into Logos and link it and it will track with other books. So the process is there… And since I have a license for Logos to run on desk top or mobile…. looks to me like it's just a matter of letting the compiled book run on mobile… But what do I know?? lol 😎
I use layouts extensively. I have at times wanted to add a specific book or Bible to all my layouts at once. It would be convenient to not have to open, edit, and then save every layout induvidually to accomplish this.
When I load from layout, the title bar of the book, along with all the tools tabs, does not show. In order to get it going again I have to close Logos and reopen. I'm using Logos for Mac.
When using Bible Book Explorer — the colorful wheel that shows interrelated Old and New testament verses = and When looking at say the OT texts used in a book - say Matthew - When you select Psalms, the Matthew texts which are related to Psalms are revealed — but there is no help in knowing what Psalm reference to which…
As for now, the translation from Latin PBs isn't supported by Logos. I'd be happy to have this function. Maybe you would vote for it, too.
