Does anyone know how to force opening a resource one hasn't purchased

One thing I love about Reading Lists is when you click on a link it opens a window saying "you do not have access to this resource," but the pages that are displayed are way better than what you get in the the sample scanned pages when you're browsing the store at logos.com.

Is there a way to cause the program to show those better windows? (It's probably some simple solution, so I apologize in advance).

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Graham Criddle

Is there a way to cause the program to show those better windows?

If, within Logos 5, you click on a link to a resource you don't own you get the preview window. In the example below I clicked on a link to AYBD (which I don't own) from the Faithlife Study Bible

In the Guides in the current beta there is the new "Bookstore" section which shows books which you don't own which could support your search (and there is a preview option there)

I don't know of any other way of doing it unless you happen to know the resource id in which case you could use "Open ResourceID" in the command line

Does this help at all?

Graham

Roger G Black

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611895#Comment_611895

If you really want to open a book to really look it through to see if you want to buy it and keep. Best option to try the resource is to buy, you have 30 days to decide. If you do not like it, call and get refunded.

Ted Weis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611913#Comment_611913

I don't like the preview features of many books that are "powered by Biblia.com."

That irritating, "content not shown in limited preview" often means the exclusion of the table of contents, but you do get a full look at that blank fly page at the book's front. [8o|]

To get a more informed idea of the contents, Amazon will give you a better preview. I wish Logos would improve this area.

DMB

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611913#Comment_611913

I don't think the buy/return option is a long-term solution.

(1) It's a pain to refund these days (with their spin-the-dial telephone options), (2) Hawkeyes, my spouse, has to be fully assured there's a credit somewhere on the cc statement, and (3) after a while you feel like you're ripping off Mother Logos by so many refunds (I used to do retail, and you'd be amazed what goes through refunds).

Better a more usable resource sampling routine.

Dan Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611935#Comment_611935

I get more annoyed when I cannot open a resource I do own.... I was reading WBC Volume 2 Psalm 53, it referred me back to Psalms volume 1 and when I clicked it told me I did not own it, so I had to manually open it from the Library window.

-Dan

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611938#Comment_611938

I get more annoyed when I cannot open a resource I do own

Did you report it? Logos can't fix what they don't know about.

Dan Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611942#Comment_611942

Not in this case but in the past i have. I will go do it now.... I was in a hurry so i did not do it... MY BAD [:(]

-Dan

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611927#Comment_611927

I don't like the preview features of many books that are "powered by Biblia.com."

That irritating, "content not shown in limited preview" often means the exclusion of the table of contents, but you do get a full look at that blank fly page at the book's front.

To get a more informed idea of the contents, Amazon will give you a better preview. I wish Logos would improve this area.

I do think yor comment goes into the right direction (and I often fall back to Amazon myself), however, the Table of Content is not an issue.

To use one exceptionally bad example: https://www.logos.com/product/37577/the-new-international-commentary-on-the-new-testament-the-gospel-according-to-john - See inside (and in-app-preview likewise) gives only the title page and Toc until ch6, not one word from the actual resource - however, the full Toc is visible from See Inside:

Scott Groethe

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/611949#Comment_611949

That see inside table of contents tip is good. If possible my preference is that it open in Logos.

It does help, thanks Graham, those are good sources for resources one doesn't own beyond reading lists. Plus I signed up for beta updates, should have done that a long time ago.[;)]