Scholar's Library (QB) Logos Bible Software Series X CD

Rating:
Summary: Excellent product with much useful functionality
Review: If you are looking for an electronic Bible, this one may very well surpass your expectations/needs. It has many useful functions within it, many of which I have yet to explore, and too many to relate here in full.

Here is a taste of its functionality from my experiences ...

- Can have multiple windows (of varying sizes) open from various resources... For example: I often have the left half of my screen contain a window with Bible text, preferably NASB (though with 2 clicks of the mouse or arrow key I can change the Bible version), and the right half of my screen contain other resources on top of each other (I have now approx. 14 open windows now on the right half) ... maybe Pilgrim's Progress, maybe a few commentaries, maybe a book on evangelism (there are many interesting/useful references and books, both text and pictures/images within, by the way).

- The Lord Jesus Christ's words can be worthily distinguished in red (or other colors) in Bible text.

- Can highlight (or underline, or double-underline, etc.) text/verses in yellow color (or blue, or green, etc.) and apply notes (or notes) to them, and categorize/group those notes (the Note functionality is good, but I can think of some improvements ... like having sub-categories as in a computer's file directory).

- Has bookmark functionality too, though only 9 bookmarks max allowed.

- Can turn on and off Strong's Numbering in the Bible text by clicking a button in the toolbar (that I created ... I think that toolbar buttons can be custom created for almost every function).

- Can click the Strong's Numbers in the Bible text to see words' Greek or Hebrew definitions.

- Can 'link' my Bible text with another Bible version or even a commentary and have the two scroll together synced by verse.

- Can double-click on any word in a resource and have a 'Merriam-Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary' appear with the word's definition.

- Can click the back/forward buttons to return to previous places in a resource's text.

- One improvement that can be made to the software is to allow users to choose whether to read Bible text in 'paragraph' or 'individual verse' format. Currently, different versions of the Bible are set one with one format or another. I'd like to be able to choose.

- Has useful word search functionality allowing for logical search strings like 'Word and (Truth or Food)' in order to find matching text across all/some/one resource(s).

- Can right click on a Bible verse and have the software return 'every' reference/book in the software mentioning it.

- Can read a reference like Pilgrim's Progress, hover my mouse pointer over a Bible verse (or range of verses) mentioned in the text, and see a temporary popup window containing the Bible verse's text (that's a big one to me when reading the non-Bible resources). Can also click on those verses to go directly to the Bible text in your default Bible version.

- Apparently, the software also allows users to create 'Verb River' analyses of Bible text, though I haven't floated down that one, or others, yet.

Hope that gives you a sense for this product's functionality and worth. It really surpassed my expectations and I enjoy learning God Almighty's Word even more now, something that is priceless.

Isaiah 40:8 'The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever.'