I'm sure this has been suggested before, at least in the Newsgroup. But I would love to have C.S. Lewis in Logos.
Brad
It's kind of crazy that I can read C. S. Lewis' books online for free, but can't purchase a digital copy. You can purchase a digital copy - just not for LOGOS. I hope that changes soon.
It's kind of crazy that I can read C. S. Lewis' books online for free, but can't purchase a digital copy.
You can purchase a digital copy - just not for LOGOS. I hope that changes soon.
As far as I can tell, you can't read C.S. Lewis's books in entirety online for free at Google Books; only previews are available there.
You can purchase digital versions of some of his works for the Kindle, or various other e-book formats directly from HarperCollins: http://www.cslewis.com
Logos has long wished to be able to produce a C.S. Lewis collection but the Estate of C.S. Lewis has had a stranglehold on the rights and had not been allowing anyone to do anything with his works for years. The guardians of his estate must be starting to budge a bit if they've allowed e-books to be produced. Let's hope they soon will follow with permission for Logos to produce them. I don't know of any other Bible software company that has been allowed to.
It's kind of crazy that I can read C. S. Lewis' books online for free, but can't purchase a digital copy. You can purchase a digital copy - just not for LOGOS. I hope that changes soon. As far as I can tell, you can't read C.S. Lewis's books in entirety online for free at Google Books; only previews are available there.
I was just looking at that and thinking the same thing. I couldn't even find the preview in the case of Mere Christianity.
Another thumbs up vote for the C. S. Lewis collection. I'll take them all, and if we have to leave behind the Narnia Chronicles so that they can market the movies, toys, action figures, movie-books...fine with me. I'll take the rest. Especially the "boring" stuff!
Yes, especially the "boring" stuff. I don't care about having the Narnia set in Logos, in fact I probably would never read them on the computer. I've read them two or three times already in print and will go on reading them in print every decade or so. But his theological works, essays, letters, and even his literary criticism esoteric medievalist scholarly work (A Preface to Milton's Paradise Lost, The Discarded Image, An Experiment in Criticism, Studies in Words, Allegory of Love, etc.) would be awesome to have in Logos!
Nooooo -- please don't tell me there's an Aslan action figure!!!! (Alas, I see that there is. [:(]) That's worse than tying him down to the Stone Table and sacrificing him.
I also would vote for it.
However, CS Lewis also wrote some really good works at Oxford and Cambridge and I am sure his estate does not control these rights as OUP or Cambridge University Press.
The collection of books I have from Oxford on my shelf include:
"Poetry and Prose in the 16th Century"; "The Allegory of Love: A Study in Medieval Tradition"; "The Personal Heresy: A Controversy" (CS Lewis and EMW Tillyard); "Rehabilitation and Other Essays" (OUP facsimile of 1939 reprinted by UMI Books on Demand); and "A Preface to Paradise Lost."
Of the books from Cambridge University Press:
"Studies in Words"; "Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature"; "The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature"; "An Experiment in Criticism"; and "Spenser's Images of Life."
Good idea! Maybe these academic works may get to Logos sooner.
Yes, let's please get C. S. Lewis in Logos!
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