Searching for PPANET and Late-Babylonian Chronograpic Text
This is just a philosophical thread (and thense meriting the 'back' key!).
I've various frustrations with the iOS/iPhone version of Logos. The issue, however, is that other mobile versions are presumably not as advanced as the iOS one and so I wonder if iOS improvements maybe need to be 'sometime in the future'.
1. I use iOS primarily for reading; I 'download' books and then proceed to read them, typically several at a time (they're boring). The problem is that you have to turn off the iPod/iPhone's internet in order to find your downloaded books. I thought of using Favorites but that's also a pain, since it doesn't show the titles. In Library, you only have 'Recent' to work with but any random book open brings 'Recent' to the top.
2. That leads to the missing titles. Instead of titles, it uses abbreviations. I opened a second panel, while I was reading MPAT (if I remember right, aramaic texts). That brought up PPANET with a whole bunch of squigglies. PPANET? No hint of it on my Logos5. I also searched Logos.com. No PPANET to be found, though it's related to 'Late Babylonian Chronographic Text'. Turns out, it's another book I'm reading (!) but not the english version. Go figure.
3. That led to the next problem. Clicking on the Contents button while off-line (in order to find the downloaded books!), leads iOS Logos into never-never land. Apparently it doesn't know PPANET's not loaded nor that the WIFI is turned off (to see the library of course).
Now, I put this in the 'philosophical' world because I really think the mobile versions (iOS included) are the wave of the future relative to large libraries (Logos' primary claim to fame). The portability relative to the massive library (massive for me!) is 'the future'. But the iOS version (don't know about the others) doesn't yet really work well with large libraries.
I know it's going there ... just some curiousities like PPANET!
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Actually I only have 8 or so downloaded; I delete them when I finish. Thanks for 'Local:'! But you're illustrating the problem ... 'Local' should have been in the sort menu and I certainly am not going to type it in each time ... easier to turn off WIFI.
Screen shot? Of the squigglies (assyrian text)? Or the abbreviations? I'm not iOS-capable (newbie!). But I'd think it's pretty obvious ... I think you're on iPad where maybe they spell out the books? I'm not talking about in the library ... after you load them to look at (or it loads them for you!).
Appreciate the response!
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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'Local' should have been in the sort menu and I certainly am not going to type it in each time ... easier to turn off WIFI.
i agree with the first, not with the second... Especially when I want notes and highlights to sync.
Screen shot? Of the squigglies (assyrian text)? Or the abbreviations? I'm not iOS-capable (newbie!). But I'd think it's pretty obvious ... I think you're on iPad where maybe they spell out the books? I'm not talking about in the library ... after you load them to look at (or it loads them for you!).
I was asking for a screen shot of whatever the "problem" was. I'm still not sure what you were talking about. As for the abbreviations... Do you mean the short names?
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I can see your mystification. On the iPad, you have a resource title. On the iPhone/iPod, it's a mysterious abbreviation (I assume the file name). In Favorites, more mysterious abbreviations. I doubt even the developers at Logos know what the abbreviations stand for.
Regarding 'local', the only reason I bring it up, is that every other book handler I have, has local vs cloud selection (button): iTunes, Kindle, OliveTree. Or defaults to local: Accordance, PocketBible, several of my PDF/document readers. Only one defaults to 'every book you ever dreamed of' .... unless you de-link from Logos (or hen-peck in the magic word each time).
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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