{"id":23056,"date":"2017-01-17T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/?p=23056"},"modified":"2018-10-28T17:23:06","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T00:23:06","slug":"logos-bible-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redeeminggod.com\/logos-bible-software\/","title":{"rendered":"Logos Bible Software Review (Logos 7) \u2013 13 Positives and 6 Negatives of Logos 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Logos Bible Software Review of Logos 7<\/a>. I include the positives and the negatives of Logos Bible Software, and explain why I think that despite its minor flaws, it is still the best Bible Study software package available today.<\/p>\n

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My History with Bible Study Software<\/h2>\n

I have been using Bible Study Software for over 20 years. The very first piece of Bible study software I used was the first version of QuickVerse, which ran on Windows 95 and came on a single 3.5\u201d Floppy Disk. I think I still have that disk around somewhere\u2026 I loved QuickVerse, all the way up until 2010 when they became greedy and blocked access to the books you had previously bought unless you paid for a software upgrade.<\/p>\n

Since that time, I have been on the hunt for good Bible Study software. I have used WordSearch, eSword, BibleWorks, and a few others. Frankly, despite how much I love Logos Bible Software, BibleWorks is still my Bible Software of choice when it comes to pure original language resource<\/em>. Nothing beats BibleWorks for studying Greek and Hebrew. Nothing. Having said that, BibleWorks is extremely difficult to use and Logos Bible Software is getting better all the time, so we will see if I still have this opinion in a few years \u2026<\/p>\n

But if you want to do anything other than original language research, Logos Bible Software is the best.<\/strong> And if you are trying to save money (and time), and you don\u2019t want to buy (and learn) two different Bible study software packages, then go with Logos Bible Software since it also has good language tools while providing a vast library of other Bible study tools and reference works at the click of a button.<\/p>\n

This Logos Bible Software review includes the positive and negative details about the software, and gets quite long, so if at any time you become convinced and want to buy a version of the software for yourself, know that you can use the code \u201cRedeemingGod8\u201d at checkout to get a 10% discount on your order<\/a>. I\u2019ll remind you again later, as well.<\/p>\n

And yes, by way of full disclosure, if you use that discount code, Logos pays me a little bit of money as well when you use that discount code to purchase Logos Bible Software. But I don\u2019t recommend Logos Bible Software simply because they give me a commission. I was recommending them long before our partnership, and I only recommend their Bible study software because I love it and use it almost every day. And the little bit of money I earn in commissions doesn\u2019t go toward fancy vacations or cars, but is put 100% toward funding the mission work I do around the world. <\/p>\n

So let\u2019s get on with the this Logos Bible Software review. Let me begin with the 6 Negatives of Logos 7.<\/p>\n

Logos Bible Software Review – Negative #1: Start Up Time<\/h2>\n

I am impatient. I, like you, live in a \u201cFast Food\u201d world with \u201cInstant Access\u201d to everything. Therefore, even though I know it\u2019s extremely shallow, the most frustrating thing for me with Logos Bible Software is its load time. Occasionally, after double-clicking the Logos icon on my desktop, it might take 2 or 3 minutes for the software to actually load and be ready to use. Then to make matters worse, it seems that more often than not, there is some sort of \u201cUpdate\u201d to the software or to one of my Logos Bible Software resources, and after this downloads, the software wants me to shut it down and restart it, which only means that I have to go through the load time all over again.<\/p>\n

The way I work around this is to think ahead. If I think I am going to be using Logos Bible Software sometime in the next two hours during my study, I will just get it started right away. This way, it is ready and waiting when I need it.<\/p>\n

Of course, once Logos Bible Software is actually up and running, it saves me a TON of time. I no longer have to find the right book on the shelf, find the right page, use the index, turn to the chapter, or anything like that. All I have to do is type my search term in the search box and \u2026 TA DA! \u2026 everything is right in front of me in a few seconds. So all in all, even though I get frustrated with the initial load time, over the years I have used Logos Bible Software, I have probably saved myself a few hundred hours of page turning. But this is turning into a positive, so we better move on \u2026<\/p>\n

In case you are curious how long it takes, here is a video of me starting Logos after purposefully not starting it up for a while:<\/p>\n

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