Multi-books commentaries/Library

Until recently, my Logos package only had single volume commentaries. When exegeting a text, I would open a couple of commentaries to see what they said. If I then wanted more in-depth analysis, I would use my much more comprehensive physical commentaries (physical books). I also have a couple of other software programs with multi-volume commentaries which I will use.

Recently, I've bought a couple of multi-volume sets of commentaries from Logos. It is nice to have books right there in my main software program. However, it creates another difficulty. When I only had single volumes, I could access any of my commentaries by opening the Library, typing "comm" and selecting from the 15 or so commentaries that were listed. When I clicked on a couple of them, they'd open to the passage I was on, and all was golden.

Now, when I open the Library, I've got maybe a hundred books under "commentary." Most are not relevant to my passage, as every volume of the sets I own come up. I would have to scroll through all of these - which is unreasonable. So, I type in the names of each commentary I want to use. Workable, but much more tedious than it was before the collections.

So, my question is, is there a short-cut that I'm not aware of to list my single volume commentaries, or (even better) only commentaries that are available for the book that is open? I'm assuming not, but after looking around, I thought I'd check.

Thanks,

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Pam Larson

You could run a passage guide from the Guides menu or Explorer from the Tools menu. Either one will give you a list of all your commentaries for the passage you're on.

Levi Durfey

You can select the parallel passages icon (two vertical lines) from a commentary that you have open to see all the other commentaries that have the same verse/passage. I usually start with the Bible Knowledge Commentary and then use the parallel passages icon to find other commentaries on the same passage.

Rick

I created a customized guide with just commentaries.

1. Open the "Guides" menu and select "Make a New Guide Template"

2. Select "Commentaries" from the list of items that you can choose.

3. Name your new custom guide. I simply named mine "Commentaries".

The first time that you use the guide, you will probably have to manually type in the reference. After this first time, the guide will automatically recognize where your Bible is at and link up to it when you open your commentaries guide.

EDIT: This guide will only present you with commentaries that are applicable to the book, chapter and verse that you are studying.

Al Het

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/727144#Comment_727144

Ah, super easy answer. Thank you.

Al Het

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/727163#Comment_727163

You can select the parallel passages icon (two vertical lines) from a commentary that you have open to see all the other commentaries that have the same verse/passage.

Excellent. I had tried that from the Bibles that were open, and didn't get anything. This works well.

Al Het

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/727167#Comment_727167

I created a customized guide with just commentaries.

Okay, that's cool. It looks like the other two suggestions work with no setup at all, but this one has possibilities here, and beyond. I'm going to play around with this later.

Thanks.

Fasil

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/727543#Comment_727543

Prioritizing your commentaries helps a lot !

Al Het

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/727546#Comment_727546

Thanks everyone.

I've said it before, but this forum is great. I got three quick, completely useful answers by the next day.

All you people who are answering questions on this forum are donating your time here, with not all that much appreciation. I appreciate it.