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All throughout Libronix e-books you'll see red Resource Links. These are hyperlinks to related articles in the same or even different books. For example, open the New Bible Dictionary to the article about Barnabas. In the second paragraph notice the red Resource Link to Apostle. Click it and the dictionary jumps there. If you'd like to open the article in another copy of the book simply hold down the Shift key when you click the link!
If you're like I am, large print books become more and more helpful with each passing day. You can use the Zoom icon on the main toolbar to change the print size of each book one at a time. If, however, you need a large print library, you may want to change the default print size. Choose Tools | Options | General. Select Text Display. Select your desired (or needed) Default Zoom!
Sometimes it's possible to locate additional articles about a specific subject without having to execute a search. For example, open the Logos Deluxe Map Set. Type Corinth in the Current Reference box and press Enter. A map about Corinth opens. Now press the Reference Locations arrow to the right of the box. A list of all the maps containing Corinth appears! Click one and you're there. Look for the Reference Locations arrow in other books especially topically indexed books like dictionaries. This can be a real time saver.
Libronix contains some great "commentary like" books that aren't versified, which means they won't show up in the list of commentaries on the Passage Guide or in Parallel Resources when a commentary is open. Among these books are Hard Sayings of the Bible, Difficulties in the Bibles, and The Training of the Twelve. They contain excellent insights but you have to know how to find them. Try this trick. First create a collection of these non-versified books. Choose Tools | Library Management | Define Collections. Click New. Name the Collection Non -Versified Books. Add the books I listed along with any others you desire. Click OK. Open the Reference Browser from the Go menu. Set the In box to Non-Versified Books. Set the Type to Bible. Type a Bible passage in the Find box like Matthew 12.40. Click Search to see a list of every place the passage is discussed in the non-versified books!
If you like reading a lot of daily devotionals that are based on the calendar year try this trick. Open any daily devotional like My Utmost for His Highest. Type today's date in the location box and press the Enter key to jump to today's reading. When finished with this book press the right arrow key on the keyboard to jump to another daily devotional for today's date! Continue pressing the right arrow key to cycle through all of your daily devotionals!
Did you know you can search the Early Church Fathers by topic? The developers of the electronic version of this set tagged each volume with topics! This means if you want to find out what the patriarchs of the early church thought about a subject you don't have to do a word search and then wade through thousands of hits. Instead you can search by topic and jump right to a location where your subject is discussed in depth. Here's how to take advantage of the developers hard work. First, create a collection for the Early Church Fathers. Choose Tools | Library Management | Define Collections. Click New. Name the collection Early Church Fathers. Type fathers in the find box. When the list appears click on the first volume and press the Enter key. The selection moves down the list. Continue pressing the Enter key until all volumes have been added. Click OK. Open the Topic Browser from the Go menu. Set the In box to the Early Church Fathers. Type a subject like kingdom in the Find box and click Search. When the list of Topics appears, select one like kingdom of God and all the places the church fathers discussed, that subject will display. Click one of the articles to jump right to that spot!
The more you know about the individual books in your library the more powerful Libronix will be for you. With all the books currently available, it doesn't take long before you can have a sizable library. Some great books could go unused if you don't know you have them or what they're about. Here's what I suggest to help you become acquainted will all of your books. Choose Tools | Library Management | Bibliography. Set the Collection to All Unlocked Resources. Set the Style to Catalog Style (with covers). Set Sort By to Title. Click Generate. Here's an alphabetical list of all your books complete with a brief summary of each! Print this list and place it in a three ring binder. Every day spend 5-10 minutes going through the list. When you come to an unfamiliar book open it in Libronix and spend some time getting to know it. Remember to mark your place on the list so you can start here tomorrow.
Have you written a paper using various Libronix e-books and now you need to create a bibliography for the paper? Libronix can help. First, create a collection of all the books you cited in the paper. Choose Tools | Define Collections. Click New. Name your collection. Add the books to the collection. Now create the bibliography. Choose Tools | Library Management | Bibliography. Select the newly created Collection from the drop down list. Select the Style your professor requires. Click Generate. Now all you have to do is Copy / Paste the bibliography to your word processor!
When you create Collections or Resource Associations from Tools | Library Management you have to add each book individually to the group. Normally you would add the book by clicking its title and then clicking Add. This can be tedious if you're adding numerous books that are listed one right after the other, like books from the same author or in the same commentary set. Instead of using the Add button just press the Enter key on the keyboard. Your selected title will be added to the group and the selection moves down to the next book on the list.
