LLR-revived 3.0 — Library Explorer for Logos and Verbum
LLR-revived 3.0 is now available on GitHub — **free and open source.**Can be operated in German, English, French and Spanish — switchable directly within the program.
📥 **Download:** https://github.com/hermannfritz-wq/LLR-revived-V.-3.0/releases/tag/v.3.0
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What delights me most: I didn't really know my own library. Thousands of books — and I kept reaching for the same ones. LLR-revived will change that.
Anyone who has spent 10 minutes with it knows why I can't imagine working without it anymore. I'm curious what you'll discover.
Many days of development and a considerable investment went into this program. Since I'm offering it to the community for free, it would mean a lot to me if you simply gave it a chance — and if you feel like it, I'd love to hear what you experienced.
Probably the most important and powerful feature in the program is that you can rediscover your books in a variety of ways—either by displaying everything by a particular author on the screen, by right-clicking to open a menu that filters all books on a topic and also displays related resources at a glance, or by switching on the “Modern” view, which you can activate in Settings, to find books already sorted alphabetically and, if you have installed Early American History, sorted by the Puritans and their spiritual contributions and by more general topics. That's over 5,000 documents. The program I developed helps me a lot in this way to rediscover the treasures in my Logos library, which comprises more than 22,000 books.
The program opens in any browser; it works great for me with the Brave browser. During installation, it accesses your Library.xml and catalog.db files in your Logos or Verbum folder and unpacks all covers into a separate cover folder so that you can access all your book titles from Logos or Verbum. For me, these files can be found under “C:\Users\horitz\AppData\Local\Logos\Data\khcmunkm.gfz” and the subfolder “LibraryCatalog.” If you encounter any problems during installation, you will find comprehensive help in the accompanying installation and documentation texts, as every system is slightly different.
Basically, after installation, each book can be launched in Logos with a simple click. Logos then opens with the book. This is how Steve Clark, who inspired me to create this program, programmed it.
After opening the user interface, you will see 26 colorful tiles showing the book categories covered by Logos and Verbum. There are sidebars on the left and right, with the right sidebar integrating some interesting information and functions. Under “Settings,” you can customize the user interface and enable or disable some functions in the program according to your preferences. For example, the sidebars can be fixed or hidden and shown. The appearance can be changed—from wood to standard—as can the functionality of the categories—from drawers to Steve Clark's original shelf view in the categories with selectable list navigation. You can also change the size of the book covers, which zoom out when you hover over them, i.e., minimize or maximize them...
So that's under Settings.
There are many different areas that are useful for working with books, helping with research on book topics, and remain relatively easy to access. The note editor can be easily moved around as needed on the screen, text boxes are resizable, web links help with specific questions, and so on. I designed the Library Explorer so that you can switch to any other language menu, i.e., German, English, French, and Spanish. This is because it should be helpful to as many Logos and Verbum users as possible. At the top, you can enter your own name, e.g., “Digital Library of Hermann Fritz.” This gives it a personal touch ;-).
There is a lot to discover. Here are a few screenshots from this morning...
Best regards from the beautiful Black Forest,
Best regards,
Hermann
