Bringing You the Best Editions

The best edition of a classic work is not always the newest one. Newer editions sometimes omit valuable information contained in the original.

This is the case with Conybeare and Howson's The Life and Epistles of St. Paul (2 Vols), which has been reprinted with abridged footnotes. However, our electronic edition is the complete and unabridged edition, which includes all of the original footnotes. On our product page, we explain,

NOTE: This work has been reprinted and distributed by Eerdmans Publishers. The edition for sale here is not the Eerdmans edition, otherwise known as the People's Edition. The 2 volume set we feature here contains Conybeare and Howson's original footnotes, complete with Greek and Hebrew quotations, which were abridged in later editions.

Is this a big deal? Perhaps not for most people, especially those who don't read footnotes! But footnotes often contain some of the richest material, and the unabridged footnotes may just contain the example you're looking for to shed light on something you're studying. Why not have the unabridged footnotes, especially in the digital edition?

We do our best to make sure that we are providing you with the best possible edition, which we can do because we don't have some of the restrictions that print publishers often do. Few people will stay away from a digital book because it's too big or has too many pages. Finding obscure references in a big digital volume is a cinch, and all digital books weigh the same and take up the same amount of shelf space! Because of benefits like these, most people are more attracted to a digital volume with more content. However, size is frequently a concern with print books—both for the publisher and for the purchaser.

Another example of how we try to give you the best edition possible is the forthcoming Josephus in Greek: Niese Critical Edition with Apparatus. The product page notes,

This is the first and only edition of Josephus’ works, electronic or otherwise, to feature Niese’s prefaces in English. The translation was produced by Logos specifically for this edition.

So in this instance, our edition is even better than the print edition!

While more isn't always better, it almost always is when you're dealing the all of the conveniences of the Libronix Digital Library System.

Be on the lookout for other places where we make our digital books from the best print editions—and often make them even better!