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Kenneth_Murphy · #10 (**permalink**) 05-30-2008, 02:28 PM

WoW, I can't wait to get my Logos sofware in the mail if there is that many PBB books out there. Half a GB? WoW!

Pratically speaking, I'm planning to put my electronic resources into the following buckets.

Bucket 1: Logos Fully Tagged
Fully tagged libronix works. These will be the expensive ones. The question I plan to ask myself is do I need the special linking features for this particular work? Will I ever be doing a study on say Romans 1:6 and want to know for certain if that particular work has a reference to the verse in it. If I have to rely on "free text" searching I may miss a reference if it's abreviated differently or otherwise not worded well enough for me to find it. Does the work have so much Latin/Greek/Hebrew/Bible Verse citations that I feel I will save a lot of time having those quick linked to my dictionaries/lexicons etc. If the work isn't important enough for the above it can go into the second bucket.

Bucket 2: Free/Cheap no tagging
Free/Public/Cheapest version PBB etc that can be loaded successfully into Logos. This will let me still read the book cover to cover and to probably use the english dictionary and to find sections using keyword searching. So still better than print for finding that quote etc.

Bucket 3: PDF or Non Libronix
I'm going to try and find some system for organising a mass of PDF resources like downloaded Google Books. Then at least I can free text search across these with Google's search or others. Maybe I can find a way to script in Logos so it can reach out to see these as well. I'll have to read up on their scripting features to see what can be done. I have a strong programming background so if it can do it, hopefully I can find a way.

Bucket 4: Print book
I'm going to assume that within five years logos will decide to allow us to download works into portable ebook readers that use the new e-ink technology like sony reader or amazon's reader. So, I'm going to avoid buying print books unless it's the last option.