Which base package do you own?

Hey Josh I was going to add that I did the very same thing.  My predicament was a conglomeration of things

I bought Platinum because:

- I couldn't afford Portfolio even if strung out for 12 months (Even to upgrade to Portfolio from Platinum would cost more than rebuying Platinum)

- I didn't then want to wait a year to gain access to some of the Portfolio only works (Near East Archaeology Collection, Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, Critical Review of Books in Religion, 1988–1998, Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible, ISBE, HALOT, & Liddell and Scott Greek–English Lexicon)

- Platinum seems to be the best stopping off point simply for the addition of the BENTC and Pillar Commentary sets

I have Platinum.

I don't see me ever upgrading to Portfolio.

I might be interested in a step up from Platinum, if it were developed. 

I own Porfolio, along with many other additional purchases (individual titles and collections). I find myself using a lot of the base material, these resources in particular (which I have prioritized).

* Baker Exegetical Commentary on the New Testament

* College Press NIV Commentary Series

* JPS Tanakh Commentary Collection

* The New International Greek Testament Commentary

* The United Bible Societies’ New Testament Handbook Series

* The United Bible Societies’ Old Testament Handbook Series

* Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land

* The Cosmopolitan World of Jesus

* Dead Sea Scrolls and Modern Translations of the Old Testament

* The Dead Sea Scrolls Study Edition

* The Encyclopaedia of Judaism

* Jewish Law

* JPS Dictionary of Jewish Word

* JPS Guide to Jewish Traditions

* Near East Archaeology Collection

* Studies in the Dead Sea Scrolls

* Understanding the Bible and Its World Collection

* Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible

* International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

* Old Testament Survey Series

* Gnostic and Apocryphal Studies Collection

* Hermeneutics Collection

* New Testament Studies Collection

* Semeia

* Early Church Fathers

* (virtually all the academic studies on early Christianity)

* The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament in English

* The Context of Scripture

* The Nag Hammadi Library in English

* Exegetical Dictionary of the New Testament

* Greek–English Lexicon Based on Semantic Domains

* A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature

* A Greek–English Lexicon of the Septuagint

* Hebrew and Aramaic Lexicon of the Old Testament

* Liddell and Scott Greek–English Lexicon

* Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament

* Unabridged Theological Dictionary of the New Testament

I get a huge amount of use out of the items in the based Portfolio collection.

Upgraded to Platinum (after starting with Scholars.)

Buying specific resources rather than coveting Platinum.

Joshua Garcia said:

How many people actually own Portfolio?

I got Portfolio Edition a year ago. I have added lots of collections & individual titles to that. Whoever puts together collections at Logos does a great job in my opinion. (I am a little confused with the new Zondervan Commentaries Collection; it looks like a grab bag special. But I have enjoyed Swindoll's books so I may be surprised with his commentaries. We will see.)

Although I get a "better deal" buying collections, I have found the  resources I selectively hunt down and pay for individually are the ones I enjoy most. But I will keep buying collections. It's all good.  [:P]

I went from Gold to Portfolio, which I think is one of the best upgrades you can make.

I own Platinum with these add-ons:

    * Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures (63 vols.)
    * International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE) (1979–1995) (4 vols.)
    * Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture (ACCS) (29 vols.)
    * Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible
    * Hermeneutics and Interpretation Bundle (3 vols.)
    * A. W. Tozer Collection (57 vols.)
    * The Essential IVP Reference Collection Version 3
    * Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary (6 vols.)
    * The Amplified Bible
    * The New International Commentary on the Old and New Testament (NICOT/NICNT) (40 vols.)
    * Tyndale Commentaries (49 vols.)
    * New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology (4 vols.)
    * New International Dictionary of Old Testament Theology and Exegesis (5 vols.)
    * An Exposition on Prayer in the Bible (5 vols.)
    * The New Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Sam McCloud said:

Maybe Logos has a lot of customers who make a really good salary or have a really good source of income, but I will honestly say I am not that fortunate although I wouldn't consider myself to be poor exactly, in fact I went in debt for 2 and  half years (I'm not kidding, my employer loaned me the money and I'm working it off a chunk a payday) just to get the library I have because I want so much to learn all I can and I really don't make that much money, $11.50 an hour to be exact.

Sam, as someone who earns only 50 cents an hour more than you do at my day job, I know exactly how you feel. Fortunately upgrading to from Gold to Portfolio only cost me $750 due to the fact that I already owned a number of the more expensive resources (I've been a Logos customer for almost 10 years). Randy's advice on that matter is excellent, always get the sales rep to check what you already own. If you already own a number of resources in Platinum, your upgrade should cost less than the price you're looking at online.

Randy, the College Press commentaries are among my favourite. I have them prioritized. They're excellent value, well informed and well balanced.

Dr. Charles A. Wootten said:

and wish I could rent a room at Rosie's place for a week (a month?) to copy her setup and way of organizing. But it's all good!

{charley}

But Doctor Charley,

What makes you think Rosie is organized? [co]

(She just downloaded everything coming out of Pre-Pub in October! How can that be organized already?)

I have BSL, I hope, someday to be able to upgrade to Scholars, maybe it will be when Logos will upgrade from Logos 4, to Logos 5.

Cheez said:

I have the BSL. I find most of the books in the packages "nice to have" but not essential. I got the BSL just to have a base and some of the add-ins. Some of the "more essential" books in the higher base packages (like NA27 etc), I got them as individual books, which is still cheaper. Instead, I get books, commentaries, lexicons, dictionaries, monographs etc which aren't in any of the base packages. 

FYI, In addition to books, Scholar's Library (and above) has functionality that's not included in the BSL, some of which I find fairly essential (Text Comparison, BWS Septuagint translation):

• Bible Word Study sections: Example Uses, Grammatical Relationships, Preposition Diagrams, Septuagint Translation,Textual Searches
• Pronunciation Tools: Erasmian Greek Pronunciations, Modern Greek Pronunciations
• Exegetical Guide sections: Apparatuses,Grammars
• New Testament Genre Coding
• New Testament Semantic Domain Coding
• Old Testament Genre Coding
• Passage Analysis Tools   
• Passage Guide sections: Compare Versions, Literary Typing
• Syntax Search
• Text Comparison
• Version Comparison 
• Visualizations

Matthew C Jones said:

Dr. Charles A. Wootten said:

wish I could rent a room at Rosie's place for a week (a month?) to copy her setup and way of organizing.

What makes you think Rosie is organized?

(She just downloaded everything coming out of Pre-Pub in October! How can that be organized already?) 

Matthew has my number! I'm not as organized as I might sound. My desk is a mess, I've got piles of stuff all over my floor. I have 9371 email messages in my Inbox. And as for Logos, I'm not quite caught up on tagging my Library. And I definitely don't have my setup completed to a point where it's really usable. Some of my Collections are still in progress, and my Prioritizations and Layouts still need work. It's an ongoing process, though. Maybe by 2012 I'll finally settle down and actually start reading some of my books! [:)]