Creating a Reading Plan for Calvin's Institutes

Milkman said:

If I wanted to create a Reading Plan for Calvin how would I do that since there are no page numbers?

You could just allow Logos to auto-generate a plan. It would split the resource up into the number of sessions you specify but wouldn't "snap" to chapter boundaries

Milkman said:

If I wanted to skip the first 31 pages which incidentally ARE marked in my specified Calvin resource and start reading at Book One The Knowledge of God the Creator Chapter 1 and END at Book Four Chapter XX.32 with the last words, "God Be Praised"  how would I do that?

To do that you would need to create a Custom Reading plan which gives you all the control you need but would take a lot of setting up for something as large as the Institutes

https://www.logos.com/training/logos6/desktop/reading-plans-4 shows you how to go about setting up this type of plan

Milkman said:

If I wanted to create a Reading Plan for Calvin how would I do that since there are no page numbers?

If I wanted to skip the first 31 pages which incidentally ARE marked in my specified Calvin resource and start reading at Book One The Knowledge of God the Creator Chapter 1 and END at Book Four Chapter XX.32 with the last words, "God Be Praised"  how would I do that?

you may want to look here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/98648.aspx whether what you want to accomplish has already been done and shared.

Milkman said:

So would this work for let's say, The Apocrypha: The Lutheran Edition: Text?

I'd like to include ALL pages in the above Resource which has about 100 pages (introductory matter) in Roman numerals?

Yes - it should work fine.

Milkman said:

I watched your video, however I have a question as to how do I include these for my first reading day. (see below).

I would select the text that you want included - so scroll down with your mouse through the text - and when you have it all selected "drag" the selection to the place that says "drag a shortcut here"

Other options are possible depending on how resources are indexed but this is probably the simplest. It seems a pain but I set one up yesterday for a book with a few hundred pages in just a few minutes.

To incorporate the Apocrypha text in your custom plan you would need to specify each section yourself - I would recommend using a auto-generated plan for this.

Graham Criddle said:

NB.Mick said:

Milkman said:

If I wanted to create a Reading Plan for Calvin how would I do that since there are no page numbers?

If I wanted to skip the first 31 pages which incidentally ARE marked in my specified Calvin resource and start reading at Book One The Knowledge of God the Creator Chapter 1 and END at Book Four Chapter XX.32 with the last words, "God Be Praised"  how would I do that?

you may want to look here: https://community.logos.com/forums/t/98648.aspx whether what you want to accomplish has already been done and shared.

Thanks Mick

Following up on that thread I see there are four plans at https://faithlife.com/read-calvins-institutes-in-2015/documents 

EDIT: These plans are for last year - starting in January 2015 - and I don't know how one would adjust them to become active again now.

Hi Graham,

I bolded your edit remark - I think I will post my answer in a separate post. Stay tuned!

EDIT: see https://community.logos.com/forums/t/121375.aspx 

Doc B said:

If you don't want to re-invent the wheel, I made one last year for a Facebook group. It took me two weeks.  It is available in the Faithlife group,

   https://faithlife.com/read-calvins-institutes-in-2015/documents

Doc, that's the tip Graham and myself gave above. I just posted about how to utilize this 2015 plan in 2016.