Considering Buying Logos 5, Have a few questions.

Contact John Ramsey at sales, and ask what Starter + Minimal Crossgrade would cost (there's dynamic pricing, so the price of the Minimal Crossgrade is reduced), and when placing the order please tell John that  referred You! John's contact information is:
360-685-2309 Direct Line

1-800-875-6467 Ext. 2309

john.ramsey át logos d0t com

Bronze would have included the most important datasets in itself, but as You've realized it contains a lot of unwanted titles - I've noticed that myself too! Starter + Minimal Crossgrade might be Your cheapest option.
Another option is that You go to: http://www.stilltruth.com/forum/logos-bible-software/great-finds/only-5999-logos-30-bible-study-library-includes-niv84-and
... the link to register at Stilltruth is hidden at the bottom of the blog. I know the seller, so I think he can be trusted. His name is . After that add Core Datasets or Minimal Crossgrade, whichever contains what You need!

If You afford to, I would also recommend quickly placing a pre-order on Revised English Bible. It's done by Protestants, but they weren't Evangelicals. There was also one Jew on the OT translation team. It's the best Bible version for large parts of the Bible. It's the best for example for almost all the Pauline Epistles (I would just place the Romans Paideia by Matera above it when it comes to Ro).

Also, if You want the best Bible dictionary, place a pre-order on New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, if You can afford it in the future! It's going to take some years to ship.

(Btw: the Church I've been attending the most within a year back in time rents the premises from an SDA Church. A bonus is that there's 230 Volts electricity, so I can bring with me one of my two laptops and take notes from the sermon, I always take notes on the laptop. I have a Barnes and Noble Nook HD too and it runs Logos, but so far I very rarely make notes in the books in it as I don't like typing without a real keyboard. I have ordered the keyboard http://www.trulyergonomic.com ... I'll use it for laptop, I don't have a desktop computer (nor do I have TV).)

Fred, this is Martin Weber, SDA product manager at Logos. I'm delighted you are getting into L5 and you are getting great advice here. I would just add that we are aggressively pursuing specialized SDA content that will make it all the more rewarding to be a Logos user. Stay tuned on for the details in upcoming days.

I am mostly interested in the SDA core materials

While I am not Martin, I personally would not recommend a base package (including the starter package).  I would recommend Logos 5 Minimal Crossgrade (http://www.logos.com/product/28376/logos-5-minimal-crossgrade).  I do believe you will also need to crossgrade to L4 first (http://www.logos.com/product/28576/logos-4-minimal-crossgrade).  I would then buy the items that you would use.

Buy the way. I like Unix also. Solaris/ Open Indiana. I have a Solaris11 HomeServer. Need to upgrade to Open Indiana.

Pray tell what is "Open Indiana"?  I didn't know the border was closed—that's better than they're doing in Arizona.  [:(]

Some years ago I purchased the Platinum and downloaded a free, huge database. I have other series (Calvin, Spurgeon, etc). In retrospect, I would not get the large collections because it makes searching through unused volumes, updating, and indexing slower. But the maps and timeline are useful. I think your decision is a good one.

Since Marty Weber is aggressively working the Adventist material, Logos is going to prove to be increasingly valuable. Each upgrade sees good improvement. It is a very complex program and expect to invest some time in learning it. It will be time well spent.

I will have to find a way to block some resources or put them on the back burner. This is a steep learning curve, but I think it will pay off in the long run.

I would suggest making a collection/collections of resources that you do want to get results from and perform searches limited to those collections. Here is a link to the wiki on making collections: http://wiki.logos.com/Collections

If you have books that you know that you will never want to use, you can remove them from your computer and search results by hiding them. The wiki link for hiding resources is here: http://wiki.logos.com/Hiding_Books

I reviewed every hit - took months but I found some interesting things in resources that I would not have opened.

That is a very good and valid point. Unfortunately most of us can only do an occasional search like that!

What I do now is working very well for me. I seldom use the built-in, pre-packaged searches. As someone mentioned above, I have the collections I use such as Ellen White, Illustrations, Reformation, English Bibles, etc,. and get searches for specific resources. I now purchase for certain resources. I expect I'll make an Adventist resources section.

If anyone is looking for the SDA Bible Commentary Series

Mine still has not arrived from the OKC ABC. I ordered July 3rd. I finally gave them a call (figuring it was on back order) and got a recording telling me they are at a conference and also in the middle of relocating their store. Lucky me. Price was right, tho'.

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My CD finally arrived. It has been installed and indexed. [:)]