Logos Bible Study Software (Logos) 1.6B is easy to learn and makes excellent use of the Windows user interface.

Logos offers a wider selection of Bible texts than any program reviewed. English texts include KJV, NKJV, ASV, New American Bible, NIV, New Jerusalem, RSV and NRSV (several texts include the "Apocrypha"). Dutch, Spanish and French translations are also available. The Hebrew BHS text and several Greek texts are available, including NA26, Scrivener, Stephens 1550 Textus Receptus and Byzantine/Majority Textform. Unfortunately, no morphologically-tagged Greek or Hebrew texts are available, though there are plans to add them through a new version by the end of 1993. This is partially compensated by the optional TVM module, which allows one to search by verb tense, voice and mood in the Textus Receptus Greek text and the BHS Hebrew Bible. Scalable Greek and Hebrew TrueType and PostScript/ATM Type 1 fonts are included.

The screen layout is attractive and offers exceptional flexibility in manipulating the display of the Bible text. Windows include some special buttons, but not so many that their appearance is cluttered. Commands may be chosen from menus, an optional icon bar or numerous command keys. One can open multiple windows with different Bible versions or different passages in the same version. The version displayed in a window can be changed from a menu. The passage displayed can be selected with the scroll bar or by entering book, chapter and verse in the upper left corner of the window. The scroll bar moves through the entire Bible, not a single book as in BWin. One can click on arrows in the right corner of the window to move up or down through books and chapters. Text wraps to fit all windows sizes.

Numerous display options are available: paragraph or separate-verse display, italics on/off, red letters for the words of Jesus, Englishman's- Strong's numbers (KJV only), translators notes, cross references (predefined and user defined) and personal notes. Up to ten bookmarks can be set. A menu item places a bookmark in the current verse. To jump to the bookmark, simply click on the numbered icon.

Notes may be attached to any verse. When the note display option is on, notes display in a resizable subsection of the Bible text window. Notes are linked to individual verses. Therefore, changing the verse also changes the note. Unfortunately, notes are limited to 4K per verse. The editor allows cut and paste and word wrap. Greek or Hebrew fonts and search-and-replace are not supported.