How to search across Logos, Verbum, Noet and Faithlife eBooks

It's annoying having to search across three or four sites to see if you can buy a book in Logos format. So I created a custom Google search engine to do that for you.

https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=018444503071280337727:xatvw7vqneu

It's no good for browsing, but if you already know the name of the book you're looking for, it's pretty useful. (Although as it's unofficial, don't rely on it 100%.)

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Levi Durfey

There you go again, Mark, creating something brilliant and useful! Thanks!

NB.Mick

if you already know the name of the book you're looking for, it's pretty useful.

Hm. I checked with everlasting and with "everlasting man" in quotes. The latter is the title of a work I bought from ebooks.faithlife (formerly Vyrso) just recently, and it hits just there and in a remark about its absence in the Collected Works of Chesterton (which shows you can search the former Vyrso store better than its current search engine - kudos for that!) - but the word everlasting should yield titles from probably all the stores. In fact the custom google search brings up obscure hits in the description texts (and those from logos.com mostly and one from verbum.com).

Does this need some tweaking in the search syntax (and if so, how can we do that?)

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1000558#Comment_1000558

A search for “everlasting” without the quotes returned 200+ hits for me.

You can try allintitle:Everlasting for more precision.

James McAdams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1000586#Comment_1000586

Coincidentally enough, I made this in the shortcuts app on iOS yesterday - you type in what you want to search and it opens a search on those three sites (3 tabs open at the same time, filtered to show 60 items and hide unread items)

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/5ebad3305e8a4717ae7e4b411e2074b8

James McAdams

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1000597#Comment_1000597

Just looked at yours - mine’s thoroughly clumsy by comparison.

Dave Thawley

It's annoying having to search across three or four sites to see if you can buy a book in Logos format. So I created a custom Google search engine to do that for you.

https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=018444503071280337727:xatvw7vqneu

It's no good for browsing, but if you already know the name of the book you're looking for, it's pretty useful. (Although as it's unofficial, don't rely on it 100%.)

That's great, thanks for sharing:-)

Simon’s Brother

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1000586#Comment_1000586

Thanks Mark.

Tom Reynolds

It's certainly promising but it doesn't seem to be finding everything. I just tested it with an author's name. "Bill Myers" only returns 8 hits but there are far more than 8 of his books available. Cf. the not very helpful list: https://ebooks.faithlife.com/search?query=Bill%20Myers

fwiw this is the same result I get with "Bill Myers" site:https://ebooks.faithlife.com/ so I guess it's Google's fault. Bing gives me 26 results with that same string. All very perplexing.

Bruce Dunning

It's annoying having to search across three or four sites to see if you can buy a book in Logos format. So I created a custom Google search engine to do that for you.

https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=018444503071280337727:xatvw7vqneu

Great idea. Thanks for sharing this.

RyanB

Thank you Mark, this is very helpful. This has long been a pet peeve of mine. I admit I don't understand the ins and outs of web based commerce, but it boggles my mind that a company would make a customer search through multiple websites just to see if they offer a product. I know there is history as to why they have multiple sites, but I don't understand why they don't make it as easy as possible for the consumer to find what they are looking foor. I appreciate you doing the legwork Mark.

BillS

It's annoying having to search across three or four sites to see if you can buy a book in Logos format.

[Y] +1

Faithlife----are you listening?

Mark Smith

Thanks, Mark.

I don't really understand why this isn't an option or the default in any of FL's product search engines.

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1000730#Comment_1000730

That is really helpful. Thanks!

Jacob Hantla

This will save me a bit of time. Thanks, Mark

Jacob Hantla

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1000681#Comment_1000681

it boggles my mind that a company would make a customer search through multiple websites just to see if they offer a product.

[Y]

GaoLu

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1001082#Comment_1001082

I just keep going back to it and using it. This is REALLY helpful!

Leesa Johnson

Good efforts. You can find out relevant or required books from enlisted URLs. It might be useful for others.

Tom

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1000728#Comment_1000728

It's annoying having to search across three or four sites to see if you can buy a book in Logos format.

+1

Faithlife----are you listening?

Great idea! Do it!

Phil Gons (Logos)

This is high on my 2019 initiatives list. I hope we can solve this in the near future. I'm sorry it's taking us so long to address this.

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1001386#Comment_1001386

This is high on my 2019 initiatives list. I hope we can solve this in the near future. I'm sorry it's taking us so long to address this.

Thank you for letting us know this is being planned.

SineNomine

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1001386#Comment_1001386

This is high on my 2019 initiatives list. I hope we can solve this in the near future. I'm sorry it's taking us so long to address this.

[Y]