7 Reasons Getting a Logos Legacy Library Is a No-Brainer

Whether you already have thousands of books in your Logos library or are just getting started with Logos for the first time, it’s worth taking a look at Logos Legacy Libraries.

Legacy Libraries are curated collections of digital theological resources that were originally included in past versions (or “base packages”) of Logos, now made available for purchase outside of Logos’s current version’s offerings. Each Library is chock-full of commentaries, reference works, and more.

That means you can get hundreds, even thousands, of biblical resources for pennies on the dollar. For example, the Old Testament for Everyone (17 vols.) and New Testament for Everyone (20 vols.) sets. You’d normally pay roughly $335 total for both. But you can get each in Logos 7 Anglican Starter Legacy Library— with dozens of other resources—for just $39.99 before any Dynamic Pricing or current sales. (That’s just one example; more below.)

And they’re all in the trusted Logos format, which means the information you need is just a few clicks away.

Here are seven more reasons to add a Legacy Library to your Logos.

1. Logos Legacy Libraries add more books to your current library

If you’re like many Logos users, your library represents a significant investment. Keeping that investment safe is of utmost importance. Rest assured: Your Logos library is yours to keep forever.

When you purchase a Legacy Library, all of those resources are added to your current library. Your new Logos library doesn’t replace your old one—it expands it! When you get another library, your current library stays perfectly safe. In fact, it gets stronger.

For example, the Logos 9 Gold Legacy Library would add the Pillar New Testament Commentary, the Baker Sermon Outlines Collection, the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, and much more.

2. Logos Legacy Libraries are built from the ground up

We build each Logos Library intentionally to ensure you get more of the contemporary works you rely on for your study. We also make sure newer Legacy Libraries overlap with earlier libraries to make them more affordable for our current customers.

That’s why …

3. A Legacy Library is the most cost-effective way to add to the resources on your digital bookshelf

Let’s use the Logos 8 Gold Legacy Library as an example.

Consider the cost for these three commentaries:

• Pillar New Testament Commentary | PNTC (17 vols.) is $499.99
• The New American Commentary | NAC: Old Testament (25 vols.) is $551.99.
• The New American Commentary | NAC: New Testament (18 vols.) is $396.99.
• The Bible Speaks Today | BST: New Testament (22 vols.) is $264.99.

If you bought each individually, you’d pay $1,713.96.

But the Logos 8 Gold Legacy Library, which includes all of these, is just $849.99—not to mention it’s currently on sale for 594.99! (And that’s without Dynamic Pricing applied.)

But you’d also get hundreds of other books to boot, like:

• The NET Bible: Full Notes Edition (1st ed.)
• John Calvin’s Commentaries Set (46 vols.)
• Lexham Geographic Commentaries (6 vols.)
• Tyndale Old Testament Commentaries | TOTC (27 vols.)
• Tyndale New Testament Commentary | TNTC (20 vols.)
• New Dictionary of Biblical Theology: Exploring the Unity Diversity of Scripture (IVP Reference Collection)
• Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary | AYBD (6 vols.)
• 52 resources on preaching and teaching
• Resources on Old and New Testament studies, Greek and Hebrew grammars and lexicons, devotionals, apologetics, atlases, and systematic theology
• And so much more

You might already own some (or many) of the 762 resources in the Logos 8 Gold Legacy Library (valued at $11,175.76 if sold separately!), but that’s where a wonderful little secret called Dynamic Pricing comes in.

4. With Dynamic Pricing, you’ll save even more

Dynamic Pricing makes the deal sweeter than a glass of Texas iced tea. You’ll never pay for resources you already own a second time, which means an even lower price on these Legacy Libraries. With Dynamic Pricing, you only pay for the resources that are new to you. And remember, this Dynamic Pricing is on top of a library’s already-discounted, bundled price!

Dynamic Pricing routinely results in hundreds—and sometimes even thousands—of dollars in savings for Logos base package owners.

5. Legacy Libraries from different traditions have different strengths

We’ve also put together specialty libraries designed for specific theological traditions. Anglican, Reformed, Baptist, and beyond—we’ve put together collections of resources from nine distinct strands of theological thought.

Even if you’re solidly in a particular theological camp, a library from a different tradition could be helpful for your study. Why? Because each tradition-specific library has unique strengths. You may be able to get a great deal on resources you’ve been hunting for in a library you never would have considered:

Logos Anglican Legacy Libraries are rich with church history resources, like the Early Church Fathers series, Classics of Western Spirituality, and the Collected Homilies of St. John Chrysostom.

Logos Baptist Legacy Libraries focus on preaching and ministry with resources such as the John MacArthur Sermon Archive (3,127 sermons), the Founder’s Press Ministry collection, and the New American Commentary series.

Logos Reformed Legacy Libraries focus on theology with collections like the 13-volume Gospel According to the Old Testament series, the Eerdmans D. A. Carson Collection, and volumes from the Works of Jonathan Edwards series.

Those are just a few examples.

6. All your books in Logos come integrated with Logos’s powerful study tools

If you’re a bookaholic like me, you might own thousands of physical and digital books. But you won’t likely be able to reference all those books each time you do Bible study or research.

But in Logos, you can—even if you never read a single one front to back.

Logos’s tagging, datasets, and features give you access to the information you need when you need it, increasing the value of your books:

• Commentaries show up in the Passage Guide.
• Relevant dictionary entries appear in Factbook.
• A diversity of systematic and biblical theologies leads to more comprehensive results.
• More background resources and secondary literary works increase the capacity of Smart Search.

7. You can spread out your investment with a payment plan

Have your eye on a Legacy Library but aren’t ready to make the full investment? You can pay in monthly installments with an interest-free payment plan. Any order over $100 qualifies. When you check out on logos.com, simply choose the payment plan option—from there, it’s easy to select the length of the plan and see your monthly payments.*

*Logos charges a monthly fee of $5.99 to cover administrative costs on payment plans.