Oh No! Not more 3D book cover illustrations!

Dear Logos.

Can I please put in a request for a return to simple 'straight on', flat-pack book jacket illustrations for future pre-pubs. I know that you provide author and description details in your write up but it's so much easier to get a feel for the book when you can see it's cover face on. I sometimes even try to have a look at a hard copy before buying from Logos and this is easier to do if you've properly seen the cover. 3D is fine for giving a sense of size for a collection or series of books, but when you are simply considering a single book - I'd like to see it 'close up and personal'.

Sorry - whinge over! Super Angry

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Bohuslav Wojnar

I usually use Amazon for that purpose. You get much information about most books there.

Donovan R. Palmer

The new graphics are bit sterile as every book is the same size and really doesn't look very realistic. Each to his / her own, but prefer the old style Amazon cover art.

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149439#Comment_149439

i just assumed they were what Logos makes up to make a PD work look a bit more fresh.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149442#Comment_149442

i just assumed they were what Logos makes up to make a PD work look a bit more fresh.

Yes, and the art work is usually quite nice. But just a freshened front cover would be sufficient. The fake 3D books are not necessary and are somewhat deceptive because they're all the same width. We will see the book covers in 2D once they're in Logos so I think it best to just show them in 2D on the website as well.

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149439#Comment_149439

The new graphics are bit sterile as every book is the same size and really doesn't look very realistic.

And Logos tends to shelve their virtual books in reverse order:

Shouldn't volume 1 be on the left? [:)]

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149502#Comment_149502

Shouldn't volume 1 be on the left?

At least you see how serious Logos is about the Hebrew language [:D]

J.R. Miller

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149496#Comment_149496

The fake 3D books are not necessary and are somewhat deceptive because they're all the same width.

Just to clarify, the books are not to scale. In real life they are also more than 2 inches high. [;)]

PS
For those reading along... I am not in the art department and have nothing to do with the graphics. As the smiley in my post indicates, I am just having some fun with my good friend Rosie.

Stephen Thorp

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149496#Comment_149496

We will see the book covers in 2D once they're in Logos so I think it best to just show them in 2D on the website as well.

The 3D books may look slick, but they are simply just not as easy to read. Perhaps we need proper 3D that springs out of your computer and rotates before your eyes, with us all wearing our special lOgOs glasses that we've just got cheap through 'Community Bidding'! [:D]

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149544#Comment_149544

The 3D books may look slick, but they are simply just not as easy to read. Perhaps we need proper 3D that springs out of your computer and rotates before your eyes, with us all wearing our special lOgOs glasses that we've just got cheap through 'Community Bidding'!

Ha ha! [:D]

Loved the way you spelled out the glasses. I can just picture them!

Mark Barnes

I think it's reasonable to not have just a cover view for complete sets, as it gives you a much better sense of what you're actually buying (at least it would if the books were to scale). Which would you pay $180 for?

That said, the image on the right doesn't give an accurate sense of the resource either. One of those volumes as 48 pages. Another has 349! Like to guess which is which from the image above?

In the good old days, Logos used to take photos of real books and use them in their marketing. It was so much better.

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149735#Comment_149735

The actual page-counts carry much more meaning than the graphics.

I like the slick 3D images as a label, but a real photo to know what we are buying.

My hope is that Logos will load all kinds of stuff into a massive product database, and drive the new web site from that. Make a nice schema, and load up all kinds of stuff. Currently, we can't trust whats on the products page, as many other messages have posted. (Mostly refering here, to what package something is included in, and hence what we might already have etc.)

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149735#Comment_149735

Hey Mark, COOL GRAPHICS!! I actually like all of the above: Cover and stacks.

I do hope Logos comes up with a real, virtual, book shelf that you can slide over. (your beautiful bib. report app notwithstanding, Mark!) I'd even take up an inch or two across the top of my screen for a full length view of my books as if they were on a shelf (scrollable, of course, and choosable, too!)

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149846#Comment_149846

Hey Mark, COOL GRAPHICS!! I actually like all of the above: Cover and stacks.

I do hope Logos comes up with a real, virtual, book shelf that you can slide over. (your beautiful bib. report app notwithstanding, Mark!) I'd even take up an inch or two across the top of my screen for a full length view of my books as if they were on a shelf (scrollable, of course, and choosable, too!)

Hey, xc! Your email's showing!

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149870#Comment_149870

something weird is happening. I tried signing on and it would not let me (my logos account) on the church desktop (xculture) I used another email account (which had never been a sign on) and it worked. xculture1 didn't work.

And the odd thing is, i see your reply saying 'xculture1" but my post above I only see "Dan DeVilder". What is going on?

The only thing I know is Rosie talked about changing my message tools to "enhanced" earlier this morning, which is all I did. And now I have a majorly screwed up logos account. weird.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149909#Comment_149909

The only thing I know is Rosie talked about changing my message tools to "enhanced" earlier this morning, which is all I did. And now I have a majorly screwed up logos account. weird.

I'm sorry if something I suggested to you caused your account to get screwed up. I don't see how that could have happened, but if I'm responsible for it, I apologize. If you're still having problems with it, try going back to the regular editor. And if that doesn't fix it, you might need to contact Logos tech support. [:(]

J.R. Miller

Can I please put in a request for a return to simple 'straight on', flat-pack book jacket illustrations for future pre-pubs.

Looks like product pages offer both views. [Y]

Stephen Thorp

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/150024#Comment_150024

Looks like product pages offer both views.

Yes Joe, but strangely most pre-pubs shown within Logos itself appear as the 3D variety - at least on my PC recently.

Friedrich

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/150015#Comment_150015

The only thing I know is Rosie talked about changing my message tools to "enhanced" earlier this morning, which is all I did. And now I have a majorly screwed up logos account. weird.

I'm sorry if something I suggested to you caused your account to get screwed up. I don't see how that could have happened, but if I'm responsible for it, I apologize. If you're still having problems with it, try going back to the regular editor. And if that doesn't fix it, you might need to contact Logos tech support.

lol, Rosie, no apology necessary. What you instructed is what I did, and should not in any way have affected it. This is an ongoing issue that is a bit larger, I discovered. No clue what happened, and Logos is involved.

Rosie Perera

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/150278#Comment_150278

lol, Rosie, no apology necessary. What you instructed is what I did, and should not in any way have affected it. This is an ongoing issue that is a bit larger, I discovered. No clue what happened, and Logos is involved.

Oh, good. I hope they get it figured out for you soon.

Clinton Thomas

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/149502#Comment_149502

Shouldn't volume 1 be on the left?

They can do that because if they put them in reverse order, then instead of his face, the picture on the cover would look like:

JimTowler

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/150376#Comment_150376

Wow - it would be so easy to say something here ... [:)]