How Much Can I Copy?

Quick question. How much of a book can you copy and paste into another place (say a google doc or an obsidian document) from a logos resource for private use?

I assume there’s a percentage or fair use guideline but Googling it doesn’t show me an answer.

Does Logos limit it?

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GaoLu

Planning to use it yourself? Give it to others? Demonstrate it while teaching? Sell it? Makes a difference.

Darren Rowse

as I said - for private use

Philip Pierce

You can print up to 100 pages at one time and save it as a .doc, html, pdf etc. Sometimes I'll export a section that I'm reading so that I can put it on my ereader. The flexibility with their books is one of the things I like most about Logos! It's not like other ebook companies where you get locked out after copying a certain percentage from the book.

Here's their support page on exporting / printing from resources:

How Can I Print/Export Content from Logos? – Logos Help Center

Darren Rowse

thanks Philip. Does that mean you can do another 100 pages from the same book at another time? Maybe I should try it, but I don’t want to break the rules.

Christopher Randall

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1394171#Comment_1394171

Yes, as long as its for personal use (which you said).

Philip Pierce

Hello Darren, yes. As Christopher said, it'll work as long as it's for you and isn't shared.

Here is the link to their rules: Content Permissions | Logos Bible Software

Darren Rowse

thanks!

Jan Krohn

By the way, you can decrease the font size, and increase the paper size, then you can export more content.

Carmen Gauvin-O'Donnell

Also, wouldn't the content permissions also depend on the publisher of the book? I know all my Bibles have statements at the beginning about how much can be copied for use, that kind of thing.

Philip Pierce

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1394193#Comment_1394193

I think that is intended for quoting in articles and books -something that would be distributed to other people.

For example, the ESV has:

The ESV text may be quoted (in written, visual, or electronic form) up to and inclusive of one thousand (1,000) verses without express written permission of the publisher, providing that the verses quoted do not amount to a complete book of the Bible nor do the verses quoted account for 50 percent or more of the total text of the work in which they are quoted.
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When quotations from the ESV text are used in non-saleable media, such as church bulletins, orders of service, posters, transparencies, or similar media, a complete copyright notice is not required, but the initials (ESV) must appear at the end of the quotation.
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version. (2025). Crossway Bibles.

Most other books have something more restrictive, such as:

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher.

I look at it as reading something interesting in a library, then taking it to copier and making a copy of a few pages for marking up / studying. Technically the publisher is asking to contact them before making any copies, but I doubt they want or expect people to write to them seeking permission to xerox a few pages for their study.

(This would fall under fair use - which allows limited copying for research / study. As long as you aren’t distributing it, copying the entire or substantial work, or replacing the need to purchase the book, etc)

U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index