I would like to download all of my resources to an external microSD card so that they are available when I can't connect to the Internet and don't consume the bulk of my internal storage (such as on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 that has 16 GB of internal storage and a 64 GB microSD card.

Supporting an external card could be a great experience for end users. That way, I could have one card that I could use in my Samsung Tab, my desktop system, or any other device Logos supports. Being connected to the Internet can be nice, but it isn't always available and I can't always have my ability to study the Bible via Logos depend on it. My wife and I are hoping to go minister in Africa and Cambodia this year. I would definitely want my Logos resources there, but I may not always have an Internet connection nor may I be able to lug around a bigger system. Having my Galaxy Tab with all my Logos resources, some music, and some other materials on the external card would be a wonderful and simple solution from the end user perspective. Thanks!

Find a company that builds and designs e-ink tablet readers and create a Logos proprietary reader, similar in many ways to a Kindle PaperWhite. All I have to do is log into my Logos account and voila, all my Logos resources are available for me to read, just like I used to be able to do with the send to Kindle feature, but this would be a Logos-branded reader, so you don't have to deal with all those crazy lawyers trying to get us to buy books twice (or more) just so we can read them on different platforms. I would buy a tablet reader like this in a heartbeat!!!

If you already use Nota Bene you know how great this software is for writing and research. Imagine all the benefits of Nota Bene, Ibidem and Orbis right in the framework of Logos. With the Nota Bene word processor one could write their next paper, article, or full length book with all the benefits of picking your styles (Turabian, APA, etc.) and utilizing the bibliographic manager of Ibidem.

Logos already has a word processor within it, to take notes, though this is nothing compared to the engine of Nota Bene. Logos also has it's own bibliographic tools to keep track of resources, though not as detailed as that of Nota Bene's Ibidem. Logos also has the Personal Books feature to add your own writing into Logos, though imagine if all the benefits of Orbis were working hand in hand within Logos. To be able to search every major library in the World, and create a Bibliography with every detail that library databases utilize, is simply remarkable.

If you have not yet used Nota Bene, please take the time to look at their site and get a trial version of the software. The online tutorials show just how useful this software is, which is used by many major Seminaries and Scholars Worldwide.

Check out the word processor here: http://www.notabene.com/brochures/notabene.html

Ibidem, the bibliographic manager, here: http://www.notabene.com/brochures/ibidem.html

Orbis, the database tool, here: http://www.notabene.com/brochures/orbis.html

Archiva, web-research, data-capture and conversion modules: http://www.notabene.com/products/archivaplatinumoverview.html

The growing list of institutions that already use Nota Bene: http://www.notabene.com/institutions_list.html

N.T. Wright has used Nota Bene for years, among many other notable Scholars: http://www.notabene.com/NBAuthors/NT_Wright.html

Please join this group: https://faithlife.com/nota-bene-software/ and show your support for Nota Bene. We hope to see Nota Bene and Logos partner together in the near future, to help us all in our academic pursuits.

Thank you,
Shine

How Libronix works with footnotes and how Logos 5 does not work

Our students would appreciate it so much if Logos 5 could have this feature present in Libronix

This is how the Libronix Digital Library works with collected items in the clip board

I can collect as many quotes as the Word clipboard permits and when I go to the document(s) where I want to use them they foot note very beautifully .

Introduction: Creation and Chaos 1:1–2

The unit begins with a concern central throughout Genesis 1–11, the creating God and chaos. We commonly translate these two verses as two complete sentences [1]

Genesis is a name taken from the Greek, and signifies “the book of generation or production;” it is properly so called, as containing an account of the origin of all things. There is no other history so old. There is nothing in the most ancient book which exists that contradicts it; while many things recorded by the oldest heathen writers, or to be traced in the customs of different nations, confirm what is related in the book of Genesis. [2]

The passage.—This magnificent chapter is one of the most concise and dramatic sections of the Old Testament. It indeed covers a longer period of time than all of the rest of the Bible, yet with an overview that could only come from the perspective of divine revelation. Some have called it a creation hymn, but this cannot be true, for it is in prose. It shows every evidence of being intended for liturgical use, of being recited in public worship. It was not intended to be dissected by theologians, but to be listened to and proclaimed. It is clear that the [3]

This is how Logos 5 does the same collection unless I do one at a time. No footnote!!! Totally unacceptable for college work. Cannot Logos 5 have this same important feature that the old Libronix does?

Introduction: Creation and Chaos 1:1–2

The unit begins with a concern central throughout Genesis 1–11, the creating God and chaos. We commonly translate these two verses as two complete sentences

(no footnote instead it is entered into the document)

Eugene F. Roop, Genesis, Believers Church Bible Commentary (Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1987), 25.

Genesis is a name taken from the Greek, and signifies “the book of generation or production;” it is properly so called, as containing an account of the origin of all things. There is no other history so old. There is nothing in the most ancient book which exists that contradicts it; while many things recorded by the oldest heathen writers, or to be traced in the customs of different nations, confirm what is related in the book of Genesis.

Matthew Henry and Thomas Scott, Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems, 1997), Ge 1:1.

The passage.—This magnificent chapter is one of the most concise and dramatic sections of the Old Testament. It indeed covers a longer period of time than all of the rest of the Bible, yet with an overview that could only come from the perspective of divine revelation. Some have called it a creation hymn, but this cannot be true, for it is in prose. It shows every evidence of being intended for liturgical use, of being recited in public worship. It was not intended to be dissected by theologians, but to be listened to and proclaimed. It is clear that the

The Teacher's Bible Commentary, ed. Franklin H. Paschall and Herschel H. Hobbs (Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers, 1972), 12.

See below how Libronix - puts the footnotes in automatically from the clipboard - no matter how many items were collected while reading - Logos will only do this for one note at at time.

[1]Roop, E. F. (1987). Genesis. Believers church Bible commentary (25). Scottdale, Pa.: Herald Press.

[2]Henry, M., & Scott, T. (1997). Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary (Ge 1:1). Oak Harbor, WA: Logos Research Systems.

[3]Paschall, F. H., & Hobbs, H. H. (1972). The teacher's Bible commentary: A concise, thorough interpretation of the entire Bible designed especially for Sunday School teachers (12). Nashville: Broadman and Holman Publishers.

Greetings, let me begin by saying just how giddy I am that I now have Logos 7. I love it and have loved the software since Logos 1 (CD Word days). I am writing to ask for a couple of enhancements.

1st. Basics of Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary. You should make the words it is pronouncing bigger. Its not like you don’t have plenty of space in the left panel. It would help so that the pointing would be easier to see. Please change that.
2nd - I was so very excited to learn about the improvements to the sermon guide AKA sermon editor. Your instructional video touts its ability to make slides using the outline feature. Much to my horror and dismay its not quite what its advertised to be or at least the logical inference to be drawn from what is stated. The video shows a heading being chosen and words typed. Those words appear almost immediately in newly created slide. Now the most obvious expectation is that you could continue typing words under the heading and those words would be added to the slide. Not so. Ok, no problem so far. Because the next logical idea would be that you must be able to drag over the words typed and click on the add to slide icon and create the slide. Not So! I called tech service and was told oh no, L7 sermon editor is not a full fledged slide generator. My immediate and unfiltered response (in my mind but not said to the tech person) was then the sermon editor is nothing more than a tease!!! The Tech service person went on to explain that the thinking at Faithlife was that you didn’t want the sermon editor to compete with Proclaim. My response was that is not good thinking. The whole thrust of the L7 presentation was that sermon editor was going to make the sermon preparation easier. I found it to be so frustrating that I went back to my tried and true methods. Here is the sad part, what Sermon Editor touts itself as being able to do is exactly what one would want it to do. As for the “don’t want it to compete with Presentation” comment. l’ll admit that I know the underlying logic. Usually, software developers will present a limited functioning software that kinda does what their premier software does. However, the trade off is price. We couldn’t let you do for a $50 piece of software what our $500 software does. I get it. But Logos 7 is by no means the cheap knockoff to Proclaim.

I want to suggest that the non-compete ideology is most as in most unfortunate.  Why should you be able to make the slides in Sermon Editor.  I don’t mind that you cannot add your own logos and graphics, but you certainly should be able to add your words.  I mean come on now!  If you don’t then you’ve really hamstrung this great tool.  I implore you to reconsider and make the Sermon Editor functional as a slide generator.  Just to be fair too, I did sign up for Proclaim.  

Thank you very much for considering my recommendations

Kingdom Blessings

Bishop Clifford L. Frazier

Bookmarking is fairly limited in Logos 4. I should be able to have as many bookmarks as I want in a book. I should also be able to use a short-cut that lets me popup my bookmarks and filter them by book, collection, tags, my mood, etc. This list should make it easy for me to jump back and forth between bookmarks. Perhaps there is even a short-cut key to jump back and forth between my last selected bookmark and my furthest position read. There should also be an automatic bookmark that saves the furthest page read so that if I jump to a prior bookmark, I can easily jump back to my prior location. I should have the option to delete any bookmark, a combination of bookmarks, all bookmarks for a book, etc. In other words, I should be able to have a series of book marks that I can easily get rid of in addition to being easily able to add them. I should also be able to write a short description for the bookmark, so that when I'm looking at a list of bookmarks I have a keyword that's meaningful to me and allows me to quickly jump to where I need to go. Color coding bookmarks would be neat, but not essential. There should also be some clear visual indicator that I've bookmarked a spot; preferably an elegant visual cue that's not distracting, but is still obvious.

As long as I'm asking for the moon - I'd like my bookmarks, as so conceived, to sync with my iPad and my android phone.

On a related note, the furthest page read should sync between my devices like my kindle does.