• Certainly a valuable resource, but the format leaves a lot to be desired. In a printed book it makes sense to cram in as much text per page as you can, but it's hard to read. In the digital format Logos missed the opportunity to enhance readability by breaking up some of the lines and differentiating formatting. We have here a nice replica of the print edition's gargantuan paragraphs, but there are much more readable versions of this public domain resource available.
    1. I agree. The formatting needs serious work. Everything is crammed together. The digital format contains no indentations for new paragraphs, no double spacing for titles, etc. Each book looks like one long run on sentence that never ends. At the end of the day, the formatting makes it hard to read the material, but the content is good.
    2. The PBB format is much more readable. I'm so glad that I kept it as the format in the Logos edition is terrible.
    3. Brian, (or others) what is PBB or other sources you have for this? I'd like to have this in an easily usable format.
  • As great as it is to have this material in digital form, the format is ultimately unhelpful in my opinion. The marginal notes that are a hallmark of Ørberg's texts are put in as footnotes. That makes sense from a coding standpoint, but you lose the easy accessibility of the explanatory pictures and crucial grammatical information. This is also a problem in Exercitia Latina, where word banks now appear after the exercises, making it difficult to see the options, though it is nice to have fillable forms. The hyperlinked index in Familia Romana is nice, but the rest of the texts actually seem to lose utility by virtue of being digitized. The biblical texts in Epitome Historiae Sacrae don't interact with the rest of the Logos ecosystem, and the heavy use of marginal notes in that text makes reading it with popup footnotes a real chore. In browsing, I found a few spots where the text employs two columns, which would have been ideal for displaying marginal notes. I'd recommend this for all the text!
    1. Hey Isaac, I learned Latin using the print Lingua Latina, so it is near and dear to my heart. Give this a try: Open up Lingua Latina, and then open up a Power Lookup in the same panel as Lingua Latina. You get an experience very comparable to the textbook experience! For more information, see my forum post here:
    2. On the other hand, while those helps are great, it's nice to not have them there in my review.