The next version of Logos Bible software is coming soon (and there’s a launch event explaining it). My initial experience of the AI features was a bit meh. But it’s improved and I adjusted to. Smart search alone is so great.
@ChrisJWilson I early subscribed to Logos Max, but haven’t found much difference. I need to investigate smart search more.
@ChrisJWilson I’m really unhappy with the direction of Logos; I bought 10 feature upgrade when it was on ‘sale’ intending for it to be one of my last purchases on probably a $2k investment. Hope to find some other alternative long term.
@KyleEssary I’ll try and put some thoughts/examples together. I will say I still find some tools pretty useless for me. Like the sermon illustration tool. It does what it says but the examples are always abstract rather than real.
@jonah I suspect I’m more open as my intro to logos was via the old connect package as I didn’t know if I wanted to invest and I didn’t really have the money at the time to invest! It was great for erratic studies as I could take 3 months off. Admittedly that’s not my situation now and I don’t want a new subscription but I think they’re doing this best they could.
- You keep all logos 10 features
- You can pay for a two year subscription (the same rate as their old upgrade cycle).
- If you have a package already, you get a discount for life.
That said, I really don’t understand the finances of it. After all they have a decent customer base, the every two year upgrades seemed to work okay, they had a subscription offering already, the logos versions of books already have a big markup (although they must each take work to make).
So it does feel a bit of a cash grab. I’d hate to lose my library now, so I’m probably locked in.