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Filters & Filing: Set Maintenance
Organizing Your Library With Sets
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My real world library is arranged by Dewey Decimal system. Although my library had 1,500 volumes in it, I could quickly and easily find every book on my shelves. It was a little bit of work initially to catalog the books; but once finished, I reaped the dividends for years. From parables to prophecy, from biographies of holy men to blasphemy of the Holy Ghost, it was easy to find what I was looking for.
Then I went digital. Ugh.
Sure, the commentaries were easy enough to use; dictionaries, too. But the ebooks
(eSword’s .topx modules & theWord’s .gbk.twm modules)? Uhh, not so much. I won’t
say the content was impossible to find. I will say this: if a title wasn’t 1) obvious;
2) memorable; and 3) familiar, then I probably never utilized it. And it’s hard to
be that familiar with a large library (unless you’re a librarian; and I haven’t met
any of those yet {even the module collectors who think they are...}). And for the
most part -
To make the matters worse, different module builders use different naming techniques.
Some use an abbreviated book title; others use a-
So, I lived with the poor organizational system of the ebooks. Then “filtering”
got better. But still -
I don’t remember who it was (so sorry, anonymous friend!), but someone told me that
I could build “sets” with theWord. A set is simply a way to organize any of your
book types -
Maintaining Your Module Sets
Adding new modules to your existing module sets is so simple in TW4! Costas has included a filter and several additional search parameters to make finding & filing your modules simple.
Simply install a new module and open TW4. It recognizes that you’ve installed a new
module, and asks if you want to add it to one of the current views. Believe it or
not -
Adding a module to one of the current views means replacing a permanent module set with a temporary one. Once TW departs from the modules on your window, that temporary set is gone, never to be retrieved again. It is best to immediately add new modules to your permanent sets of modules. After installing a new module, then, you should add it to at least one module set (and perhaps several of them, depending on the number....
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As your library grows, you probably find yourself “tripping” over your digital books occasionally. I know I do. Organizing and maintaining your digital library is as important as keeping your office orderly.
eSword has two different maintenance features that are not intuitive; but once you know that they are there, they’re certainly easy to use, and increase the power of eSword. The two features are:
1) The Ability To Delete Modules
2) The Ability to Manage Modules & Module Tabs
Let’s take a look at each.
Dr. John Walvoord was a leading dispensational theologian of the second half of the
1900’s. He was discipled by Lewis Sperry Chafer at Dallas Theological Seminary. He
quickly rose through the ranks of the seminary to eventually becomes its second president.
He served in this capacity from 1952-
Walvoord wrote dozens of books and pamphlets. Some of his books are (in my opinion) “best ofs” in their categories. Examples of these are his exegetical works on Daniel & Revelation and his doctrinal works The Holy Spirit at Work Today & The Rapture Question. These are excellent works.
All of Dr. Walvoord’s titles are under copyright, and will be for a very long time.
However, many of his works are available for free at his website -
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John Walvoord Modules
