Bibleworks 10 release date full#
Bibleworks 10 release date software#

Academic Program Value: The academic program is great and makes the Logos packages a phenomenal value in terms of what you get for the price.

However, the reverse interlinears and the Bible Word Study report enable people with little knowledge of Greek and Hebrew to access some great data.)

Bibleworks 10 release date full#

(Warning: to take full advantage of the syntax tools, youвЂ™ll need to have a decent grasp on Greek and Hebrew. See an example here: The Spirit Communicating: Logos Syntax Search. They are going to significantly change the study of the original language texts-both (1) in what they can do that couldnвЂ™t be done before and (2) in saving time doing more efficiently what could be done before only very inefficiently.

Syntax Tools: The syntax tools are great.

ThereвЂ™s no real alternative for one interested in building a primarily digital library-something I am sold on, and something more and more people are becoming sold on. Logos cannot be touched in terms of the sheer amount of great resources that they offer.

Number of Resources: There are between 60 resources available for Logos.

(As an aside, I actually now prefer reading Logos resources to print books. In addition, you can change the font and font size for easier reading. You can also add notes within the resources. You can underline, highlight in lots of different colors, and apply a limitless number of markups.

Quality/Format of Resources: LogosвЂ™s resources are great and enable you to do about as much to them as you can to your own print books-and more.

Here are its strengths and weakness: Main Strengths IвЂ™ve become so convinced of its value and advantages that IвЂ™ve sold hundreds of volumes from my print library to replace them with Logos resources. I have since upgraded to Gold and spent several thousand dollars on other resources. I had been using the Theological Journal Library (which, by the way, is great and I highly recommend!), but I didnвЂ™t have a clue about all that Logos offered. They are far behind the times in this regard.ДЄbout two years ago a friend introduced me to Logos. TheyвЂ™ve tried to implement some support for Unicode in their notes and in exporting text, but I still have not been able to get it to work in the notes.

Non-Unicode: For some strange reason BibleWorks doesnвЂ™t use Unicode yet.

I love having hundreds of commentaries as electronic resources. TheyвЂ™ve stepped it up recently, but are still far from being in the same league as Logos.

Limited Number of Resources: BibleWorks has a lot of great resources, but they are very limited in what they offer in terms of types and number of resources.

You cannot mark them up or take notes in them.

Quality/Format of Resources: The format for BibleWorks resources is poor.

(Two qualifications: this assumes you donвЂ™t want to spend much more than $350 and that you donвЂ™t qualify for LogosвЂ™s Academic Discount Program, which gives you 40% off boxed sets and very good savings on almost everything else.) This doesnвЂ™t necessarily make it the best choice. In my opinion, itвЂ™s hard to beat the value in terms of sheer number and quality of exegetical tools compared to the price.

Value: You get a ton of great exegetical tools for a decent amount of money.

I mention it only as an interesting observation.) Interestingly, Logos starts in about 15 seconds (opening to a blank workspace). BibleWorks now takes about 20 seconds to start on my computer. (Although, the startup time in version 7 has slowed significantly. In my opinion, it canвЂ™t be touched in terms of speed of access to lots of exegetical data. It does searches of the biblical texts in milliseconds and gives you instant information from lexicons and grammars.

Speed: BibleWorks has an incredibly fast response time.

ItвЂ™s a great program that I plan to continue to own, upgrade, and use indefinitely. IвЂ™ve been using BibleWorks since version 4. I offer this not as a polished review, but as some off-the-cuff thoughts from one who uses and recommends both. This is by no means exhaustive, probably oversimplifies some of the issues, and certainly expresses my opinions and preferences, but it may be of help to some.

Bibleworks 10 release date software#

IвЂ™m reproducing it here (with some very minor changes) in case there are others who are trying to decide what Bible software to buy and use.

I posted this at the Forum in response to a discussion there. Someone recently asked me for my opinion about Logos vs.