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Originally Posted by ekbell
Verbum also caters to the Catholic market. Vryso seems to have become Faithlife Ebooks which has the virtue of being straightforward.
As someone who's acquired books from a number of the Faithlife subsidiaries, through the same Faithlife Account, all can indeed be read on any Faithlife platform.
I agree that many of the features are better used on a large screen although I personally find using the passage guide as well as the split screen option on my small tablet to be quite acceptable.
My main reason for buying Faithlife books for study despite the closed garden software is the cross-linkage made possible by that fact. Being able to follow references to their source as long as the source book is available on Faithlife and I've bought it has been very, very useful even with a relatively small number of books. I've not bought a full library just my favorite Bible translation(s), a handful of reference books and commentaries plus any interesting books offered for free or deeply discounted.
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Thanks for sharing a lot of great ideas.
I meant to mention that Verbum is to Roman Catholics what Logos is to Protestants. The functionality may be very similar, but the books are very different, in most cases.
I downloaded the Logos app to my smartphone, but was very disappointed with it. Not that it is bad product; it's just that there is just not enough real estate on the screen to do the Logos software justice the way that I use the software. I might find (even) a smartphone tolerable if I used it solely or almost solely for reading books, in the way that you do, though. I have no experience with a tablet at all, except for about half of an hour of frustration with some kind of Apple tablet.