New Feature: Personal Book Upload
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Welcome Bob! [:)]
bob nyberg said:I am running Logos on 2 computers. Both are Windows PCs (Win7 and Win10). I built a personal book on 1 computer, but it is too large to upload. Do I have to rebuild that same book on my second computer? Or can I just copy a Personal Book Logos file (not the original docx file) to a flash drive and transfer it to my second computer? If so, where would I find that file on my PC?
See this post: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/42036/313207.aspx#313207
If you have additional questions, please create a new thread.
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alabama24 said:
Welcome Bob!
bob nyberg said:I am running Logos on 2 computers. Both are Windows PCs (Win7 and Win10). I built a personal book on 1 computer, but it is too large to upload. Do I have to rebuild that same book on my second computer? Or can I just copy a Personal Book Logos file (not the original docx file) to a flash drive and transfer it to my second computer? If so, where would I find that file on my PC?
See this post: https://community.logos.com/forums/p/42036/313207.aspx#313207
If you have additional questions, please create a new thread.
Alabama24 is always helpful [thanks] but there is one advantage of moving the docx file to the other machine and rebuilding the PBB there. You then KNOW that you have a working backup of the docx file as you have used that backup to create the PBB on the second machine.
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David Ames said:
there is one advantage of moving the docx file to the other machine and rebuilding the PBB there. You then KNOW that you have a working backup of the docx file as you have used that backup to create the PBB on the second machine.
Absolutely. The link below shows what I do:
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YOu can also, if you have network access to the resource folder of the original computer that built the PB, do a SCAN of the Resources folder on that computer - this approach does not give the feature of a source backup of your personal book file, but if you are making changes to multiple PBs and lose track of what needs to be updated on another computer, it will catch any compiled files that are later. If you don't have network access, you can just copy your Resources folder to a thumb/USB drive and SCAN it from your Logos/Verbum app.
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Jonathan J Watson said:
Personal Book Sync allows you to automatically download compiled personal books on other desktop installations.
If personal books can now be uploaded to the Logos servers, is it now also possible to share them with a Faithlife group? It is my understanding that various other types of documents can be shared (see https://documents.logos.com/), but I don't see my personal books that have been uploaded.
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Andrew said:Jonathan J Watson said:
Personal Book Sync allows you to automatically download compiled personal books on other desktop installations.
If personal books can now be uploaded to the Logos servers, is it now also possible to share them with a Faithlife group? It is my understanding that various other types of documents can be shared (see https://documents.logos.com/), but I don't see my personal books that have been uploaded.
No unfortunately not (or: not yet). compiled PBs are no Logos documents, but resources and thus don't show on documents.logos.com and can't be shared among users.
Have joy in the Lord!
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Thanks, Faithlife, for this helpful enhancement, quite useful indeed.
As far as I can tell, the logos help file has not been updated with matching instructions yet. I know uploading is not complicated, but it would be good for those who have not read this thread and wonder what upload does to have explanation in the PBB section of the help file.
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Francis said:
Thanks, Faithlife, for this helpful enhancement, quite useful indeed.
Are you thanking them for something more than a year old, or for something new?
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Something old. Better late than never. The same goes for updating the help file.
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Is this feature lasting I thought I had read somewhere it was going to phased out. I may be confused by something else though.
Dan
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Dan Francis said:
I may be confused by something else though.
I think you mean either 1) send to kindle OR 2) the lack of personal books on mobile.
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Dan Francis said:
Is this feature lasting I thought I had read somewhere it was going to phased out. I may be confused by something else though.
Dan
https://community.logos.com/forums/p/126859/848584.aspx#848584 Try this response by Bob Pritchett
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Seriously? You mean the personalized books are uploaded into the cloud, but not downloaded back onto my iPad? That seems a little incredible and very annoying since this is exactly what I was hoping to use this function to do -- so that I could read on my tablet.
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Rob said:
Seriously? You mean the personalized books are uploaded into the cloud, but not downloaded back onto my iPad? That seems a little incredible and very annoying since this is exactly what I was hoping to use this function to do -- so that I could read on my tablet.
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I don't need my PB's indexed on my mobile device, I just want to read them. Just my feelings.
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Ditto. A simple sync across devices for reading would be perfect.
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Michael McLane said:Rob said:
Seriously? You mean the personalized books are uploaded into the cloud, but not downloaded back onto my iPad? That seems a little incredible and very annoying since this is exactly what I was hoping to use this function to do -- so that I could read on my tablet.
I don't need my PB's indexed on my mobile device, I just want to read them. Just my feelings.
Try saving the DOCX file to a PDF and reading the PDF on the tablet.
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But indexing is the whole point. I want to be able to select a few items from my library that connect and stay on topic as I go and frankly, I won't ever own all of the Logos books and Logos won't ever support all of the books I want. Personal Books looked like a good way for me to add, and fully connect, my own author preferences.
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Apart from re-reviving an old thread, Faithlife have stated they will not sync PB's to mobile devices.
Dave
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Is this option available now?
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I meen, is it possible to read downloaded books on ipad?
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Hi Alexander:
No, nothing has changed with regard to reading Personal Books on mobile devices. It seems unlikely to ever happen.
The Upload function facilitates the synchronizing of Personal Books between desktop computers by uploading to servers and syncing other desktops.
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How do you delete an uploaded personal book. I noticed on the couple that I uploaded that when I right-click nothing happens, so I can't delete the personal book and start over again.
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My practice is to make a new one over the top of an old one which works fine.
I have used a dummy document and book cover and compiled the books with names like AA1..... so they are easy to find. Then when I make a new PB, I just use one of those AA....books and recompile it with new data. Works great for me.
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GaoLu said:
My practice is to make a new one over the top of an old one which works fine.
That's because you can't permanently delete a PB after you upload it. You can Hide it as an alternative.
Dave
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