Google Chromebooks & Logos

I am considering buying a Chromebook at the moment, and am trying to figure out if it is worth it, based on my usage of Logos. I am a Bible college student and heavily reliant of Logos. Biblia.com is great, but there are still some things that make me weary in regards to getting a Chromebook. How advanced do you think Biblia will be, or do you think that maybe there will be a Logos for Chrome app?

Bryan Smith said:

That said, the best way to get us to implement a feature you want is to ask for it

Thank you.

I agree with Mr. Black and Mr. Phillips; I would love Biblia to incorporate the Exegetical Guide and Word Study capabilities. 

Uh....I hate to take this past the perfect #7 but....

8 checking in.... [:$]

10 

Mark Barnes said:

Seven is a perfect number! (And the functionality must be a long way there as a result of the iPhone app. Can you borrow their server-side code?)

7[;)]

Personally, I'm in love with the concept of the Chromebook, and more importantly, the cloud. I must say though that I'm a little dissapointed by the statement that Biblia is not planned to reach the functionality of Logos 4. Yes, I recognize that there might be certain limitations to making the web app 100% identical to the software, but, frankly, if the app were suitable enough to replace my software on the computer, I'd be more inclined to switch to it. Why take up the hard drive space if you don't need to? Why confine your software to one machine if you could access it anywhere? It is not uncommon to find myself accessing 5 or more different computers on a daily basis, given my present situation as both a worker and a student. The cloud concept is making such a predicament not quite as difficult for me. Again, I'm not saying that you need to implement all the bells and whistles of the software, but I would appreciate it if Biblia offered most of them, or at least enough to make a nice alternative to the software itself. 

I second this! I miss the Logos application on my old windows PC (that is all I miss from that beast), and I realize it may be a long time until we get the same functionality through Biblia, but I would love to see highlighting sync between Biblia on my chromebox and chromebook and my android devices.

One more feature I would love - a smooth way to copy and paste verses from Biblia, so that I could easily place passages in my google docs.

Thanks for taking the time to consider requests from those living on the bleeding edge of technology. :-)

All of the above and notes as well (not community notes)

TCBlack said:

Mark, 

In the future please use the reply button and then quote whom you are replying to. This is hard to follow.

Gotcha. Will do!

There are rumours that android APPS are going to be doing to ChromeBooks soon, so you might get it, the only reason Logos is on Amazon Fire Tablets is that they are android based tablets, if Google dose add in Android APP support you will have your Logos app.

-Dan

One good feature of the Chromebook is Chrome Remote Desktop and that at least allows you to access the full Logos app on a PC from anywhere.

I too am moving towards a Chromebook future. Computing should be more about productivity and less about spending time maintaining a bulky OS and keeping up with the latest version of large costly software applications. I want a computer that will allow me to quickly and easily perform the tasks I need without have to become an expert in the OS -- And my first computer was an XT compatible IBM clone back in 1987, so I've seen how OS's have grown and become overgrown.

So I hope the folks at Logos will continue to support and develop  Biblia for online computing needs. It doesn't have to match Logos, but a little more functionality would be great. On my android app of Logos, I can get the lemma and grammatical tags from BHS and tagged greek texts. It would be wonderful to do that on Biblia as well. Biblia doesn't necessary need a full-featured grammatical search engine, but the ability to search on lemmas in original language texts would be wonderful.

Please keep improving Biblia. It's been on Beta with no changes for awhile now.

Thanks for providing a great product.

Dennis Toll

I wonder why there is a Chrome app for Biblia but not one for Faithlife?  

What I would like is a better option for interlinear Bibles on Biblia.com.  Now, it just displays the base text with no English translation, which is pretty much useless for an interlinear.  It lieu of an interlinear, could you please at least model it as an INTRAlinear where the English translations follow the Greek or Hebrew in the text (perhaps in parenthesis).  That way, at least you have a gloss into English.  Thanks!

Kevin A. Purcell said:

Just picked up a Samsung Chromebook

I'm still running the original CR-48 from the chrome beta and use that option somewhat regularly.

I will be happy when Logos builds a fully-functional web app (combining all of the functions of the ones they already have) that works well on the Chromebook. It seems that cloud computing is the future and Logos should capitalize on this trend.

http://library.logos.com is a fairly good browser based way to access your Library.... not sure why more features haven;t been integrated into Biblia but it is there...

-Dan

Tes said:

Yes,  Passage Guides and Bible Word Studies in Biblia.com would be wonderful.

[Y][Y][Y] I'd also like to see passage guide and word study (and maybe text comparison) from library.logos.com added to Biblia and/or Faithlife.  I find the current logos online apps in addition to a few other websites let me do almost all of my reading and studying online. It would be nice to be able to do this at one website. 

I agree completely. An online thin client version of Logos would be great. The feature I am looking for (but as of yet is not available) in Biblia is to have access to the morphological data in the BHS and Greek NT texts. The ability to do a morphological search and see the tags in the original texts would be wonderful!