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Preparing and Indexing your L4 Library

Submitted by tcblack on Mon, 11/02/2009 - 2:55pm
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After restarting Logos for the first time, you're going to be greeted with the "preparing your Library" splash screen. While I can't speak with absolute programmers knowledge about what is happening here, I can postulate from what I learned during the Beta phase.

First: L4 is going to copy all of your books either from the scan path given in the last step, or from your resource path in your existing L3 installation or finally, from the installation DVD. All of your books for your entire library will be kept in a single directory. One of the new features of L4 is Library management. At this stage that means that you no longer have to be concerned with whether or not you have all the books you're supposed to have. By keeping them all in one directory, and by cross checking your license with their database, Logos will now keep everything up to date. You forgot you owned The Scripture Alphabet of Animals or The Love Affairs Of A Bibliomaniac? Logos didn't and if it's not on your Hard drive where it belongs - they'll download it for you.

What's My Library Worth?

Submitted by tcblack on Wed, 02/04/2009 - 12:07pm
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Just caught this library on Ebay for a grand sum of $274,500.
I looked at all the pictures and scanned through the descriptions of the books available. There's just no way to get all the information you might want out of the limited space of an Ebay page. There's no doubt it's a massive library.

Do I Really Need that Book?

Bible Software in the Classroom

Submitted by tcblack on Fri, 05/09/2008 - 3:16pm
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There's a post on the Logos Blog about Logos in the Classroom. Actually it's a commercial for a 15 minute talk by Senior VP Dale Pritchett, which itself is basically a commercial aimed at Seminary professors to convince them to replace their single classroom textbooks with the full Logos Digital Library. If you have the 15 minutes you should listen. If you only have about 7, do a quick read of the PDF transcript.
I have two simple observations to make.

Upgrade the audio please

The audio is probably over compressed. It's either that or the audio is the result of several takes and a bad patch job. Dale comes into various sentences sounding completely different and it seems with different breathing patterns; almost as if they've taken two or more clips and sliced and diced them into one speech. The only reason I mention this is because I found it annoying to listen to. I'm tempted to say it's over compressed because I've experienced the same phenomena with other Logos media. Michael Heiser's excellent lecture "The concept of the Godhead in the Old Testament" was plagued in it's Camtasia format with horrible over compression that introduced all sorts of nasty audio artifacts into the speech. It's worth downloading the MP3 on that one instead of listening to the stream.

Yes, But...

I agree wholeheartedly with the principle message of Mr. Pritchett's speech. But I also see a problem

Computers in The Classroom
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