New Feature: Personal Book Upload
What is it?
Personal Book Sync allows you to automatically download compiled personal books on other desktop installations.
How does it work?
After compiling a Personal Book, the “Upload” button will appear when selecting the resource from the list. After uploading a Personal Book, the PB will be downloaded on other Windows/Mac installations (v. 5.3 and above) when updating resources.
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Will personalized books show up on devices such as smart phones and tablets as well?
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Chris Toney said:
Will personalized books show up on devices such as smart phones and tablets as well?
Not at this time.
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I had not tried this out before, but here is what I am seeing with the book I just recomplied:
The Upload button is greyed out and non-functional.
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I was able to upload several PPB made more than a year ago, but one I could not because the upload button was greyed out for this one docx PBB. Is ther a size limitation? I think my PBB file was about 40 MB. Cool feature, though. I have not synched my Mac to the uploaded PBB yet.
David
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I don't remember the size limit but there is one.
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I think the file limit is 20Mb on the compiled book.
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Mark Barnes said:
I think the file limit is 20Mb on the compiled book.
My obviously small books upload but the big ones (like the screenshot above) will not. I can always try dividing them up. It would be nice to know what the size limit is.
Edit: I have a monster in there (384,000 KB). (Bet Mark knows what that one is.) Two other big ones at 156,000 KB and 60,000 KB. Those last two would take a little effort to divide up.
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Bridgeport, CT USA
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Mark Smith said:Mark Barnes said:
I think the file limit is 20Mb on the compiled book.
My obviously small books upload but the big ones (like the screenshot above) will not. I can always try dividing them up. It would be nice to know what the size limit is.
Edit: I have a monster in there (384,000 KB). (Bet Mark knows what that one is.) Two other big ones at 156,000 KB and 60,000 KB. Those last two would take a little effort to divide up.
I thought for the 5.3 beta the limit was 15?
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I'm thankful for this ability to upload but wish there was a way to upload larger personal books. Perhaps some day.
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https://community.logos.com/forums/p/88381/622132.aspx#622132
I just bumped the upload size to 20 MB.
Thanks for the feedback! This is a beta feature, and we're monitoring the service and making small adjustments depending on how it is used. If there are additional issues you're running into, please let us know so we can get them fixed.
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Randy W. Sims said:
https://community.logos.com/forums/p/88381/622132.aspx#622132
I just bumped the upload size to 20 MB.
Thanks for the feedback! This is a beta feature, and we're monitoring the service and making small adjustments depending on how it is used. If there are additional issues you're running into, please let us know so we can get them fixed.
I still have some books larger than this that I cannot upload. I understand that there must be a limit. Just wish it was higher.
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OFF TOPIC: Bruce - make sure to pay attention to where you place your text when quoting someone. You need to make sure your text comes after the "[ /quote ]" or else it looks like the other person is making the comment instead of yourself.
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Are we able to upload a personal book from pages instead of a .docx file?
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alabama24 said:
OFF TOPIC: Bruce - make sure to pay attention to where you place your text when quoting someone. You need to make sure your text comes after the "[ /quote ]" or else it looks like the other person is making the comment instead of yourself.
I normally do. Just missed it this time. I will fix it now.
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I'm glad the feature is there but... I pay $3.00 a month for a hosting plan that includes unlimited online storage and data transfer (FTP). Microsoft gave me 1 Terabyte of storage for OneDrive with an Office purchase. I have a 4 Terabyte hard drive at home that I keep online. For the price we pay for the software a 20M cap is laughable at best. Just design a way for me to store my library on my own server if it's too expensive for you. This isn't the 90's.
DGB.
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Oh yes, and I SHOULD be able to access all of my library on any device. Why wouldn't I?
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David Glenn Bailey said:
Oh yes, and I SHOULD be able to access all of my library on any device. Why wouldn't I?
what is this in response to? Faithlife's philosophy is that you should be able to have access to all of your resources on all of your devices... And that you should only pay once. FL works hard with publishers to accomplish this, and most of the time they are successful.
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Scroll up to Chris Toney and Todd White.
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David Glenn Bailey said:
For the price we pay for the software a 20M cap is laughable at best
This issue is being discussed in a number of places including https://community.logos.com/forums/t/88381.aspx
Out of interest do you have an estimate of how many Personal Books you might have that are larger than 20MB? I expect this sort of information would be useful to the Faithlife team
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David Glenn Bailey said:
Scroll up to Chris Toney and Todd White.
Thanks for clarifying - and, for future reference, it is helpful if you can "quote" posts so that it is clearer what you are referring to.
In this case it looks as thought you were referring to the issue of not being able to sync Personal Books on your mobile device.
I, and many others, agree that this would be nice but we don't when when / if it might be made available
And welcome to the forums.
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100+ easy.. and like others quite a few really large files. I like the ancient Greeks. Encyclopedias. Oxford. Cambridge. I read the other thread and I'd rather not pay for the service (or have people with expendable income speak for me). The argument of cheap storage was made there as well. If there's going to be a cap then I need to sync to Dropbox/OneDrive or even through FTP on my own server, which I'll pay for myself. I look forward to hearing about a solution.
DGB.
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Thanks!
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Most of the larger files are PDF's. In converting them to .DOCX files I can get most of them under the 20MB cap by removing the images. This is only a temporary fix and if I want the images back in the books I'll have to go through the entire process again of reconverting, rebuilding, reuploading, and then losing highlighting, bookmarks, etc.....
The number one most important feature with personal books should still be the ability to read them on mobile devices
. Any word on if this will be developed and when?DGB.
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David Glenn Bailey said:
The number one most important feature with personal books should still be the ability to read them on mobile devices
. Any word on if this will be developed and when?I haven't seen any commitment on this from Faithlife (as far as I can remember) - I wouldn't expect them to comment publicly until it is nearly available (assuming this happens)
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But the idea with syncing/uploading is that once the book has been compiled, it is no longer necessary to maintain a file on one's personal computer, right? E.g., I have a dropbox account so that no matter what computer I am using Logos on, the directory tree is the same (C:\DropBox\Dropbox\Logos). But if I can upload the documents so they sync on all devices (ideally), this would be serving that function, and having a dropbox would be superfluous for Logos, correct?
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Jeffrey T. Requadt said:
But the idea with syncing/uploading is that once the book has been compiled, it is no longer necessary to maintain a file on one's personal computer, right? E.g., I have a dropbox account so that no matter what computer I am using Logos on, the directory tree is the same (C:\DropBox\Dropbox\Logos). But if I can upload the documents so they sync on all devices (ideally), this would be serving that function, and having a dropbox would be superfluous for Logos, correct?
Wrong. The point of maintaining .docx files in dropbox is so that you can have access to recompile the document as needed no matter what computer you are using. "Personal Book Upload" only syncs the COMPILED file. If you delete your .docx files and need to make a change for any reason, you are toast!
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No, I get that. I will always have a copy of the file from which to compile a book again. I don't think I need access to that on all computers, since I only do that the first time, or if I update it. But the point of syncing is that Logos doesn't have to go looking for the file in some other directory on your hard drive, right? It makes a copy itself (of the compiled file), whereas before it had to access the docx file every time you wanted to open it. At least, I couldn't open the PBB on another computer unless the docx file was available in exactly the same directory as when first compiled, thus the need for a dropbox to be located in exactly the same directory on every computer.
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Jeffrey T. Requadt said:
before it had to access the docx file every time you wanted to open it.
It never used to (was supposed to) work this way. The only thing you could access from within Logos was the compiled resource, not the .docx file
Jeffrey T. Requadt said:At least, I couldn't open the PBB on another computer unless the docx file was available in exactly the same directory as when first compiled
Strange - I don't understand this!
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Well, maybe mine is just weird, or perhaps my understanding is from the earlier days, and they changed it without me knowing. But the point of the upload/sync is that we don't have to have any file available unless we want to compile it again, right?
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In fact, I couldn't open the personal book on ANY computer, even the one it was compiled on, unless the DOCX file was in the original directory that it was compiled from.
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