Which new Wordsearch resources would you like to see first?

I'm anxious to get The Gospel Project. I had it downloaded onto my desktop and the first year became corrupted. I can't download it from WS anymore. I only need Fall of 2015, Winter of 2016, Spring of 2016, and Summer of 2016. All I need is the first year. I purchased those through Lifeway. How can I get a copy of those? Pretty please?

Dake, please

Please get my Preacher's Outline Sermon Bible Commentary it is the most valuable resource other than the Bible itself.

Dakes Annotated Bible Study Notes and Thompson Chain Reference.

How do we know when new titles are added? Do I just once a month go to the store and search? 

Bobby and Kimberly Atwood said:

I mean, Word Search had a Strong's numbering system built into the KJV where all I had to do is just hover over the number and "BAM" there it is. Maybe some one on one help could benefit me but once again, how much time will it take

This is not too hard to set up in Logos once you know how. You need 2 things and a little setup.

1) Any Bible that has a reverse Interlinear feature.
2) A Lexicon that is indexed on Strong's Numbers. such as https://www.logos.com/product/10514/the-new-strongs-concise-dictionary-of-the-words-in-the-greek-testament-and-the-hebrew-bible 

1st you will want to set up your Reverse Interlinear to "Look Like" a WordSearch Bible with the Strongs Numbers turned on.

This is what you would have seen in WordSearch. See the # button? You know this turns the Strongs Numbers on and off.

Next open your Logos Bible with a Reverse Interlinear feature. You will know that the Bible has this when you see this button at the top of the Bible.

There is a drop down arrow just to the right of the button click it to configure how the reverse interlinear will display.
(once you configure the display, this is how it will always show up until you change it. You turn the feature/display on aand off by clicking the button-not the arrow, just like you click on the # button in W.S.)

To set this up...

1) Choose the drop down

2) Check the Inline Reverse Interlinear box.
    Check The Surface Box.
3) Check the Strong's Numbers box.

Click outside of the menu to close it.

To activate Bible with Strongs numbers now click the 4) Reverse interlinear Button (again the button not the drop-down arrow).

Your Bible will appear similar to this (very similar to what you had in W.S.)

When you 5) hover over the Strongs Number, you will get a pop-up.

The neat thing about this is you do not have to use the Strongs Lexicon. You can use ANY lexicon that is indexed on Strongs numbers.

One last item is that you will want to have prioritized your Lexicon of choice so Logos will use it for the pop-up display.

One last un-cluttered image to see the resource set up this way. (See the WordSearch version in the first image for this post above.)

Bobby and Kimberly Atwood said:

I mean, Word Search had a Strong's numbering system built into the KJV where all I had to do is just hover over the number and "BAM" there it is.

To revisit this topic for just a sec. per my post above, LOGOS actually has a good tutorial page on using Strong's numbers here...

https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360028307111-Using-Strong-s-Numbers 

you might want to check it out.

Steve,

If you go to the page Bradley linked to above and click on Status twice, the list will be re-sorted so Not Started items are at the top.

Any of the Holman or B and H products that I owned in Wordsearch. I see that you are now promoting B and H and  Holman products in Logos.  I will be glad to get these resources updated for Logos.  Thanks.

Thompson Chain Reference definitely and for sure. I am not sure if it is already migrated. I cannot find this book I purchase in the Logos library. May you confirm or point me to the right way of searching for it. 

Would love to see the "What the Bible Teaches" Commentary Series migrated sooner rather than later.

This Dictionary https://www.logos.com/product/26428/american-dictionary-of-the-english-language 

is in this bundle https://www.logos.com/product/26275/the-christian-history-library .

Yea, it is pricy, but a bit more manageable if you have the academic discount.

AGREE!!!

Ron Mattoon Series 

Logos has added the Wordsearch "Strong's Talking Hebrew Greek Dictionary" to my Logos library. But you know what is funny? It does not talk, which obviously was one of it's unique features.

You did not leave Strong's program but just clicked on a little sound icon next to the Greek or Hebrew word and it would pronounce it for you. Also the "Strong's Talking Dictionary was hot linked directly to Vines Greek / Hebrew words and the "Theological Dictionary of New and Old Testament words. This feature would leave Strong's open and open a new tab Window in the other two dictionaries. Any chance we will get the sound files back in the Strong's Talking Dictionary? And maybe some of the other functions?

I know it is a great undertaking but the commentary, interlinear, original language dictionaries all found in one set called the "Complete Biblical Library" was with out a peer when it came to its interlinear and dictionaries, which are not based on Strong's numbering system. The dictionaries not only gave an historical usage of the words being defined but also a complete Englishmen's search for every word. Plus it gave the different forms of the Hebrew or Greek word being defined. All in one click of the mouse and there it was right in front of you. This is my number one choice for expediting the transition to Logos.

Good question Bob. I have been looking for it as well.

Hi,

  I would request the Dake Bible commentary, and this means it's functionally indexed to the Bible. By the way I'm not the ONLY person who's requested it. I can see, and I suspect most of the requests are just forum posts to try to pacify Wordsearch users. There's no REAL metrics being captured here.

I feel it would be more honest if you wouldn't call a commentary "available" unless it's indexed and functioning with an index, such that changing the book, chapter, verse of an open Bible changes the commentary right along with it. 

Having a commentary that's supposed to change or move as you move from book/chapter/verse in the Bible - but doesn't move or change-  is like a car without an engine.  It's pretty much worthless. Nobody's going to search a Bible commentary that's just like a pdf. That's ARCHAIC to search a pdf for a chapter and verse, that's the whole reason I bought software, so it can do the work.

We're like six months out (was it 09/2020) from the supposed conversion, and I suspect half the commentaries aren't even indexed (I could be wrong, but I wonder how many of the books/commentaries that were indexed in Wordsearch are still not TRULY FUNCTIONAL in Logos?). 

It would be better not to even have the commentary's in the software if they're not indexed. An eBook is nothing more than like a pdf and it's just out and out deceptive to call them "AVAILABLE" when they're next to worthless. It's like a gas powered car without an engine, or a house without a roof. I bet if your house or apartment didn't have a roof, you'd be complaining up and down, and move out.

Please don't school me - a free text search of a pdf is like - why even have software at all?

I use Bible software so that my commentary moves right along with the Bible as I move around the Word between different Books, Chapters and Verses. This IS NOT advanced functionality. This is just basic, expected functionality that should just come with the software. Providing an un-indexed pdf is totally disgraceful. Providing an eBook or pdf that doesn't AUTOMATICALLY change along with the open Bible is totally WORTHLESS.        Who's idea was that?  Somebody who doesn't have to use the software day in and day out.

Then you try to SHAME your users for expecting fundamental functionality that either you won't provide, or you've prioritized lower than silly things that aren't germane. Get all of the commentaries indexed, and working - or be HONEST to the Wordsearch users, and just tell them, they're better off WAITING and using what really functionally already works (and has been working for years) in their software.   QUIT shaming your users for wanting simple basic functionality we had in Wordsearch, that you can't seem to provide - but deceptively call "AVAILABLE" on your website.

Do you even publicly display your software backlog?  Do you use an agile methodology? Are your users voting on your work priorities, or is some "marketing genius" calling the shots on what work gets done?   Why put an engine in the car, or a roof on the house when we can have fancy colors and icons on the outside?   It's EXTRA SAD - because your website marketing LIES as it says, and I quote "Do the Work of the Ministry without the Busywork" ---  but wait, the basic Bible commentaries aren't even indexed with the Bible such that changing to a different book, chapter or verse changes the commentary. I DO have to do the busywork myself - because ???? why???

I expect this kind of deception from my cable company, a used car dealer, a health care company and politicians - but it's coming from a Bible software company who claims some Bible commentary is "AVAILABLE", but it's not much more than a pdf.  Disgraceful.

Frustrated by the Cover Up Here

AJ Kerezy said:

I can see, and I suspect most of the requests are just forum posts to try to pacify Wordsearch users.

I was a WORDsearch user and I have to say the Logos in my estimation is 100 times better. I also find Faithlife more upfront and honest than WS. If you were a user of Mac computers, WS strung us along promising functional software that would operate on the Catalina OS, that went on month after month after month and finally they just gave up. Also, truthfully WS’ UI was stuck in the 1990s, and though WS resources could be cheaper it didn’t have one 10th of the capability of Logos... particularly if you compared their mobile device software in which WS wouldn’t even qualify as being basic software.

These forums are made of people trying to help people master Faithlife products, and there are some volunteers that dedicate incredible amounts of time and effort to assist people to be better students and teachers of the Word using Faithlife software. Your tone is not helpful or consistent with the nature and the purpose of these forums. Truthfully, you come across as angry, rude and disagreeable.  Perhaps you are really mad at WS and you are channeling that toward Faithlife or perhaps you have other issues at work in your life that have you on edge. But I would appreciate, as I am sure many others would, if you keep your discourse civil and your tone courteous.

Please work on the Thompson Chain Reference Bible

Bradley Grainger (Faithlife) said:

The Dake Annotated Reference Bible, for example, is "Available" as an "Ebook".

The verses are only taken as pictures. The samething with many other imported WS resources. I am vrey curios to see the Fire Bible in Logos edition, if this is not going be to happen , then please tell me to give up hopping on nothing.