When I Choose a Package Can I Remove Certain Books?

Samuel said:

For example, I'm looking at my upgrade options for Logos 7 and considering getting a package I would normally not get just to get a resource or two in that package. The downside is that I don't want 80% of the books in the package. I do understand the "more books is better" idea but with the package I'm looking at it would be a bunch of stuff taking up space on my hard drive and slowing down my searches that I will never use. If I buy a package is there a way to basically get Logos to remove certain books from my account?

There are some resources that FL will give a special discount on when you are buying a base package. These show only after you stick a package in your cart; you can try it and see. If the ones you want are available that way, you might be able to go with a lower level package and just add those.

That's exactly what I did. I really wanted the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary. That's in the Gold packages, but I didn't want to spend that much money. I was interested, however, in the Methodist Bronze. Once I stuck that in my cart, the AYBD came up as a special offer with $70 off. The Methodist Bronze + AYBD was less than half what the Gold package would have costed me. So, I'm very happy I had that option.

Samuel said:

I wish it wasn't the way it is, but for a $1,200 discount on that one resource I'm pretty close to buying a package and then just hiding all the stuff I don't want out of it.

For a mere $600 USD I'd happily do all the resource hiding you wanted for you. [;)]

I was there once....

So I first bought in at L2. Used it for a while. L3 came out, and I hated the interface - and quit using it all together. Fast forward to the L4 release.

Before I bought a package, and before I knoew what I had already bought wasn't lose, I downloaded all the free books I could for months. I avoided a couple of the big things like Perseus at first.

But before I took the plunge and bought into l4, I did indeed download perseus.

At the time, I hadn't had much language training, and what little I did have wasn't enough to find anything in their of use at that point. So I painstakingly hid every non-english perseus title because every time I searched for anything that was all that came up.

This experience at the time colored my approach to purchasing resources. I only wanted what I wanted and nothing more, or less.

But then I bought an L4 base package; around that same time, someone showed me prioritization. Between those two things, I grew to see that Logos was an engine made more powerful by more titles. Made more powerful by using the built in organization tools (collections, tagging, prioritization to name a few) and that in some ways Logos is like a fire, the more wood, the more heat, the more you can do with it.

Now I've got 15k books or so, and am thrilled to find deals like what you've found because while maybe 80% of a certain denominational package are things I don't think I'll use, the other 20% are hugely valuable and available at a great discount. AND then every now and then I discover a gem that came ostensibly for free with the stuff I did want.

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