http://m.logos.com/

From the discussion on the forums and a few of the president’s tweets, it looks like you should be able to search and access all your books that you have in Logos.

Over at the Euangelion website (http://euangelizomai.blogspot.com/)
Joel Willetts has been undertaking a multi-part review of Accordance. It’s quite a good review and he discusses how and why he started using it, and why he continues to do so.

regards,
#John

I don’t believe there is a best software package (or Bible translation come to that) because it’s the wrong question “What is the best…?” The right question is “What is the best for this purpose?” Without knowing the purpose of the user/reader then the wrong answer may just be given for this wrong question.

Literal Bible translations may be fine for one group of readers; paraphrases or dynamic equivalents may be better for another group.

Keep us thinking, Michael!

what’s your problem with apple? bad memories of typing classes in school on the IIe or something?

I recently decided after decades of PC use (and still a preference in many regards) that accordance was better than logos. So I got a mac, keeping my PC(s) handy for real work.

And now that I’m running XP on parallels on a used MacBook (Intel Core Duo, which I think is the only kind they sell now), I can also say that the Mac runs windows better than most PCs.

So I must say “for shame” to your comment: “Last month I wrote about a Bible study software called Bibleworks. This time I want to talk about the only other real option that is out there, Logos Bible Study Software.”

Even if logos never made their mac version, mac users could run it under parallels or another simulator. And for those who don’t like the mac OS, well, I live over half the day in the windows os while sitting at a macbook.

i still hate the mac/pc commercials and i don’t give a rip about whether using a mac makes my pants trendier and tighter than someone who uses a pc, but in terms of productivity, i’m very very happy with the macbook running parallels. i have great flexibility for tons of tasks because some (not all) of the apple apps are actually useful.

now, the mac doesn’t yet have support for Syriac keyboards and Syriac unicode fonts. So that’s a downer. But Greek and Hebrew are covered at least as smoothly as on the PC and the Syriac can again be done in windows xp on the mac in parallels (or whatever vmware a person chooses)

so, i think you should find a friend with a mac, test the latest version of accordance, and be open to new options

On the other hand, there are a lot of video tutorials at Logos.com – I just need to carve out the time to learn and use it.

Started using it in the late 90’s as well and it has helped me in my studies quite tremendously.

For those that want to play with it first, you can find cheap NAS or NLT versions on Christianbook.com usually for under US$ 50. It’ll come with a concordance and such, and will allow you to play with Logos to see if you like it. At least that’s how I got started.

And for the Mac lovers under us… yes… Logos is available on Mac since the beginning of 2009 !

EricW, check out the Logos camps.. perhaps there’s one getting close by or shoot a message with the syntax or a screenshot to the tech support guys at Logos. They’ve helped me before.

Right now.. my library exceed my intellectual capabilities and time. And I still want some more titles Definitely some of the freshly released Zondervan stuff. Even they eventually saw the light

In Him
Mick

Barrett – If you are in seminary, call Logos and you should qualify for an academic discount. Also, you should check out our Seminary Scholarship.

Mark C,

I understand the your desire to have the works of your own denomination right at hand. I can’t agree about going to E-Sword to get used to using software though. Anybody reading this thread has enough software experience to get rolling with any of them.

To all regarding cost vs free:

My thinking is that their time and effort would be better invested in learning to use a more contemporary package. Cost is always a factor, but if we all wrote down every cent we spent for a month, I think we’d be surprised at the amount that could have been better used elsewhere, such as on LOGOS.