There's a post on the Logos Blog about Logos in the Classroom. Actually it's a commercial for a 15 minute talk by Senior VP Dale Pritchett, which itself is basically a commercial aimed at Seminary professors to convince them to replace their single classroom textbooks with the full Logos Digital Library. If you have the 15 minutes you should listen. If you only have about 7, do a quick read of the PDF transcript.
I have two simple observations to make.

Upgrade the audio please

The audio is probably over compressed. It's either that or the audio is the result of several takes and a bad patch job. Dale comes into various sentences sounding completely different and it seems with different breathing patterns; almost as if they've taken two or more clips and sliced and diced them into one speech. The only reason I mention this is because I found it annoying to listen to. I'm tempted to say it's over compressed because I've experienced the same phenomena with other Logos media. Michael Heiser's excellent lecture "The concept of the Godhead in the Old Testament" was plagued in it's Camtasia format with horrible over compression that introduced all sorts of nasty audio artifacts into the speech. It's worth downloading the MP3 on that one instead of listening to the stream.

Yes, But...

I agree wholeheartedly with the principle message of Mr. Pritchett's speech. But I also see a problem

Andy asks:

This is a little off the subject.

How beneficial is it for you to have both the Libronix and BibleWorks (especially BW7)? I have always thought that Libronix can do whatever BW can. Is that true? Since you have both, how has BW help you? Would you even consider upgrading to BW8?

To answer your final question, yes. I will almost certainly upgrade to BW8 in a heartbeat. Mind you, I've not heard *any* rumors of it coming forth though. If anyone has any information I'd love to hear it!

My style of study hasn't changed by large amounts since I first bought BibleWorks 4 when it was first released. I've faithfully upgraded to each new version as it came along and was fortunate enough to help beta test v7 and was quite familiar with it's new style of working by the time it went gold.

Since my Hebrew is barely first year student level I do things a little differently in the OT but when doing NT studies I always start with Bibleworks to do my translation work.

There is some crossover in the two tools but their self determined focus defines their usefulness for me. BibleWorks is designed from the ground up for textual research. As a result it is fast, lithe, agile and any other word you can think of that means it does what it should do quickly. Libronix/Logos is first and foremost a library. It has a great Librarian and research assistant built in but it is a Library. What it is designed to do it also does well. But let's face it - it's still big and slow by comparison. Before you argue, I've heard all the arguments about comparing apples and oranges

After reading a post by Rick Mansfield on the changes in the ESV (from 2001 -> 2007) I began wondering myself what the changes in particular were. I have on hand one of the best Biblical textual analysis programs ever made: Bibleworks 7. When previous versions were upgraded (NET and NLT) I made export copies of the original then recompiled them using the built in module as "original versions" named NEO and NLO on my system. I'm going to do the same thing with the ESV 2001 so that I can compare the old 2001 version with the new 2007 version as I move along in my own study. If you want to do the same, I invite you to follow along.

Make sure you have the original
To see which version you have of the ESV change your browse mode to verse at a time by clicking either the menu feature under "View" or the footprints icon. Hover over The little ESV and the Word Analysis window will change to show the copyright info and should read "ENGLISH STANDARD VERSION (ESV). Copyright © July 2001" If it says 2007 you'll have to roll back your ESV in order to do this little trick.
Of course since I update regularly I already have the 2007 edition installed in BW so what to do? Since I keep all my old patches I had no problem here. Note that if you're not in the habit of keeping your patches I'm not sure how you can accomplish this. And I'm doubly not sure if it's legal for me to post the patch (or the ESO compiled version) here since it would be in essence distributing the ESV without paying royalties. But I can show you how to do this with files you already own.

With the announcement of the BibleTech:2008 conference being hosted by Logos Bible Software my eyes glazed over and my mind started racing.
As many of you know I use two pieces of software for Bible Study (three if you count OOo). I start translating every passage (as much as I can) in Bibleworks. Then I Move over to Libronix and complete my work there, refining as I go. There is already excellent linking between the programs from Bibleworks 7 to Libronix. BW7 has done an outstanding Job in permitting linking with it's external links manager. Logos has yet to learn how to play nice with other programs.

(EDIT:
Bob Pritchett wrote to remind me of the Object Model Reference which effectively means that Libronix is completely open to playing nice with others.

Now that I think about it, hosting the conference is indicative of Logos' willingness to play nice.
I offer my apologies to Bob and to Logos for my misguided statement.)

The announcement as well as the blog posts from Logos employees Rick Brannan and President Bob Pritchett are quick to note that even though Logos is hosting/sponsoring the event it's not about Logos, it's rather about technology and the Bible. My hope for the conference is that relationships will be built between companies like Bibleworks and Logos (and E-Sword, Accordance, Gramcord, PalmBible+, Olive Tree and hundreds of others) which will encourage future cooperation on items which become visible in user world where I reside.

As one interested in Technology, the Bible and in Bible Software I am pondering a trip to Seattle next year to be a part. Whether I go or not, the speaker list is starting to look interesting.

There are two main types of user created databases here Bible versions (these don't have to be Bibles but can be any resource which has book names and chapter and verse (like the Koran)) the second type is a user module. The instructions in general for each are below.

Bible Versions:

See Bibleworks helpfile chapter 38

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Bibleworks 7.It's a great tool! But users are users and many of us like to add more "stuff". Here, for your perusal and total enjoyment is a roundup of just about all the Bibleworks add-ins, everything from Bibles to vocabulary files. The definitive list is found
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I continue to be outright amazed at the amount of stuff inside of