After buying an iPad 2 last year, I wrote this about the Logos app:

I anticipate this being one of my favorite apps in the near future, but I almost never use it now because I can’t highlight the text or add notes to resources. (Very frustrating!) I’m waiting for Logos to enable those features to sync with Logos 4 across all platforms. Logos is working on this and has promised that these features are on the way.

It’s now here.

Logos recently announced and explained its updated app. I’ve been testing it out, and it’s beautiful!

This 55-second video shows you how easy it is to use on an iPad and iPhone:

That video doesn’t show the app’s most important feature: notes and highlighting sync across all platforms. So if you highlight words on your phone, (more…)

Logos Bible Software is giving away nearly 1,500 books: The Perseus Collections.

You heard that right: nearly 1,500 free books.

I’ve already downloaded and browsed the collections, and I’m impressed. I love having all these resources in Logos format.

Learn more about the Perseus Collections here:

• Announcement: “Nearly 1,500 Free Perseus Books for Logos 4“
• Follow-up: “5 Reasons the Perseus Project Is Incredible“
• Video: “How the Perseus Classics Collection Can Transform Your Textual Searches in Logos” (Of course, there are exegetical fallacies to be aware when doing word studies like this.)

You can pre-order these collections by selecting these items:

1. Perseus Classics Collection (1,114 vols.)
2. Perseus Civil War and 19th Century American Collection (340 vols.)
3. Perseus Arabic Collection (39 vols.)
4. Perseus Renaissance Collection (22 vols.)
5. Beowulf
6. Duke Databank of Documentary Papyri (256 vols.)
7. Richmond Times-Dispatch (6 vols.)

There are no strings attached, but there is a timing-issue: When the Perseus Collections go live on September 30, Logos won’t be able to continue taking orders for a while as they process all the pre-orders they’ve received. So if you want to get the Perseus Collections as soon as possible, pre-order them before September 30.

If you currently own a Logos 4 base package that includes the old NIV (1984), then you can add the updated NIV (2011) to your Logos library for free.

Details here.

Attention, those in the Greenville-Spartanburg area:

You’re invited to a demonstration of Logos Bible Software!

We’re meeting at my church’s building.

Our target audience is pastors, college and seminary students, and thoughtful lay people.

I love Logos Bible Software!

See you there.

When Logos added the “Michael Barrett Collection” to pre-pub last October, I immediately pre-ordered it. But I’m disappointed that the collection hasn’t gathered sufficient interest yet to proceed to publication. It still needs some more orders.

Michael Barrett is President of Geneva Reformed Seminary. He’s brilliant, and the books in this collection are accessible and edifying.

Related:

1. Phil Gons explains more about the Michael Barrett Collection.
2. Chris Anderson describes Complete in Him (one of the books in the collection).
3. Kevin Oberlin reviews Beginning at Moses (one of the books in the collection).

That’s the title of a 2600-word article (8-page PDF) I recently wrote for Reformation 21. (Pardon the formatting of the version on Ref21’s site; some of it didn’t transfer to very cleanly in HTML.)

Here’s the outline:

• Why You Should Organize Your Personal Theological Library
• A Way to Organize Your Personal Theological Library
  • Enter the bibliographic information for each resource in Zotero.
  • Organize your resources in Zotero.
  • Arrange your print books on your bookshelves in alphabetical order by author.

I created this three-minute video to supplement the article: