Find Your Books in the Library

You can open your Library in three different ways:

A menu appears showing a list of all your books. Click a book (or double-click it depending on which view you are in) to open it.

The Library is viewable in three modes. These can be selected from the Views dropdown in the Library toolbar.

In Tile View and Cover View, you can change the ordering criteria from the dropdown to the left of the View selector.

In Tile View and Details View, you will see a progress ring beside each book. This gives a visual indicator of the total percentage of the book that you have opened and read.

In Details View, right-click at the top of a column to select which columns you want to display. You can also drag the columns horizontally so they appear in the order you wish.

You can click the header of some of the columns – such as Title, Publication Date, or Rating – to change the order in which books are presented. But for most columns – such as Type, Series, Subject, or Author – if you click the column header it will group your books by that field. You can then open a group to see corresponding books.

Click the information icon (or press Cmd+Shift+I on a Mac or Ctrl+Shift+I on Windows) to open a set of tabbed panes, one providing information about a book and the other providing the ability to prioritize books. Click the icon on the left to access the information tab and select a book on the left. This displays a summary of the book, personal and community tags, local download status, a citation, copyright information, and more. You can also reset your reading progress from the information pane by clicking the progress ring and selecting from the available options.

Click the Sidebar icon to open the Filter panel and explore the faceted browsing options available in the Library.

The filters that display in the column on the left allow you to limit the displayed books by Type of book, Factbook subject (which can provide more specific categories than the Subject filter), user-defined Collection, Reading Status, Date Added, and more.

Use the Library filter search to further narrow your matches. For example, typing spirit in the box matches with any book that has the word spirit in its metadata. With filter fields, however, you can restrict the matches by, for example, typing title:spirit to find books with spirit in the title, or author:Augustine to find books by people with the name Augustine. You can also combine these terms to further refine your search.

See below for more details on finding books in your Library.

All the books that are included in your Logos Library are visible, even those saved only to the Cloud (those that haven't been downloaded to the current device).

Cloud-based books are indicated, in Tile View, by the presence of the Cloud icon to the right of the book. They are also indicated in the information pane by a Download button.

Cloud-based books are included in search results and can be previewed in your local installation or accessed using the Web App with an internet connection. If you want these books to be available without an internet connection, click the Cloud icon or the Download button to add it to your local installation.

Learn more about cloud-based books.

The Library provides a quick and easy way to find interesting Logos books that you might want to purchase. You can also add books that you already own to your Print Library (for more information, see this article). To add new books, click Add to Library at the top right of the panel. Just like with the books in your personal Library, you can search, sort, and filter available books.

To the right of each book, you'll find one or two icons showing the options that are available to you.

These icons indicate, and enable, the following:

If you hover over a book, the icons will expand to show the options available. Click one to select the option of your choice.

If you select the Preview/Buy option, a preview will open in a new panel.

From here, you can preview the content or you can select one of the options at the top right to either purchase the book (the Add to Cart option) or open the product description page for the book (the Learn more option).

You have several options for searching your Library, including keyword, title, author, and date added.

Find a book by author

There are three options for searching your Library by authors:

Details View

1. Click the dropdown for the book's display mode and select Details View.

2. Sort your Library by author by clicking the column heading labeled Author. You are able to view an alphabetical list of authors in your Library. Scroll until you find the author you are looking for.

Filter

1. Click the Sidebar icon to reveal faceted browsing options.

2. Scroll down to the Author section. This section filters your Library by author and lists books based on the number of books by each author.

3. Click an Author to filter your Library to just show books by that author.

Search Syntax

1. Type author:[first and/or last name] 

2. Logos displays all books written/edited by this person.

   Note

   Note: Simply typing an author’s name in the Library search bar may yield results where the person is mentioned in the metadata associated with the book but is not the author.

Tip

Tip: Any of the headings displayed in the Filter column can be entered directly into the Library search bar. To use a filter field, type [filter field]:[search term].

For example, entering subject:leadership shows all your book focusing on leadership.

Find books by title

Use standard Logos search syntax to search for books by title. Type title:[search term] (with no space after the colon).

For example: title:John

Note

Note: Simply searching for John displays books that contain John in its associated metadata (title, author, description, etc). Adding title: before the search term limits your search to books with John in the title.

Prioritizing books allows you to instruct Logos to display information from your prioritized books ahead of others or when you click a Bible passage link.

Learn more about Prioritizing Books.

Collections are individually created, customizable groups of books, which can be searched specifically in several places within Logos.

To create a custom collection of books,

To add books to a collection,

To learn more about managing Collections, see this article or go to the Logos Help section on Collections.

You can view and modify information for a single book, or for a group of books, by using the Info window.

Rating

To rate a book, click the rating stars. Your rating will overwrite the default rating for the book and can be used for grouping your books.

Recommend

Logos makes it easy for you to share your thoughts about your books with others. In the Recommend section, you have the option of posting thoughts or recommendations about a book directly to Faithlife.com, Facebook, Twitter, or sending a link via email. Simply click the desired icon to start the action.

You can use the Library to set which books download to your mobile device(s) so they can be accessed while the device is offline.

Note: The Logos mobile app must be installed on your mobile device, and must be linked to your user account.