Spiritual "Gem" Discovered...I had no clue???Access to all books!!!!!

[Shannie]

At meeting last night a sister showed me something I didn't know...not sure if you did or not ...but here it is...

 

 

Follow go to
1)JW.org  
2)select "Publications"
3)select "Online library"
4)At the top right of the page you will see two squares press on them.
5) Then scroll down go to "books" 

All books we have ever had I believe Happy reading 😃
 

Revelation Book... Reasoning Book etc....

You can even download them to your phone and they will show up in your library ...or download to computer...💖💖

[jayrtom]

Yes, it's been available for some time now on wol. not just books, also all other pubs from 1950 (in English) --> You notice on your searches that the references to older publications have a link now

Edited June 6, 2019 by jayrtom

[jpl]

Thank you but how to download these books?

[SUNRAY]

2 hours ago, Shannie said:

they will show up in your library .

Thank you Shannie! Are you saying we can download older books to the JW Library app as well?😄

[jwhess]

4 hours ago, jayrtom said:

Yes, it's been available for some time now on wol. not just books, also all other pubs from 1950 (in English) --> You notice on your searches that the references to older publications have a link now

The items listed are generally dated 1970 and newer (except for the Watchtower which goes back to 1950).  Some items, like tracts only go back to 1987.  Most of the material does not have the pictures or charts or cover art unless it is newer than 2010.  But the brochure for children "Bible Lessons" which is almost entirely cartoon pictures has none and it is dated 2013.

 

Other than copying each page, I do not know how to download the publications (they just come up as html files).

[NW2020]

4 hours ago, Shannie said:

At meeting last night a sister showed me something I didn't know...not sure if you did or not ...but here it is...

 

 

Follow go to
1)JW.org  
2)select "Publications"
3)select "Online library"
4)At the top right of the page you will see two squares press on them.
5) Then scroll down go to "books" 

All books we have ever had I believe Happy reading 😃
 

Revelation Book... Reasoning Book etc....

You can even download them to your phone and they will show up in your library ...or download to computer...💖💖

 

 

It is always so fun when we find these gifts  - Indeed  happy reading!! .. Thanks for sharing Shannie 

[Ludwika]

Thank you!! I had no idea! 

[Tortuga]

Another way to get there is to use the link at the bottom of your JWLibrary app home page.

 

[jayrtom]

16 hours ago, jpl said:

Thank you but how to download these books?

There is no direct way of downloading the books, but since you asked this I searched for a solution and here it is what you can do if you want the books, or magazines, or whatever publication, to read offline

Install this app (windows, but there are similar ones for linux and android and, hopefully, mac and iOS) : http://www.httrack.com/

That will download the entire site (for example start with the table of contents page of the publication and it will download all the relative pages)

Then install calibre (a book reader and multi platform conversion tool) : https://calibre-ebook.com/download

Then, inside calibre, you can convert the downloaded html into any format you want (pdf, epub, mobi, etc...)

 

In Calibre you can do a batch conversion job, that is, download everything you want first and then convert it all at once

 

Hope that was helpful

Edited June 7, 2019 by jayrtom

[Old]

I was excited when I read about access to older publications, books and brochure as far back as 1950. Slightly disapointed that this library is not exhaustive. The one booklet I was looking for was "Christendom or Christianity which one is the light of the world"  it was very motivating and was subject of a great campaign. The other was "What has religion done for mankind" book which was being studied when I was appointed  as bookstudy conductor.

It is true, we have many, more current publications that cover the same material, but I don't have the memories of them like I do of these two. 

[Good-O]

21 minutes ago, Old said:

I was excited when I read about access to older publications, books and brochure as far back as 1950. Slightly disappointed that this library is not exhaustive. The one booklet I was looking for was "Christendom or Christianity which one is the light of the world"  it was very motivating and was subject of a great campaign. The other was "What has religion done for mankind" book which was being studied when I was appointed  as book study conductor.

It is true, we have many, more current publications that cover the same material, but I don't have the memories of them like I do of these two. 

I too loved both those publications.  I think I still have the 'Religion" book and maybe the booklet.  I remember the campaign to place that booklet. Do you?

[Old]

5 hours ago, Good-O said:

I too loved both those publications.  I think I still have the 'Religion" book and maybe the booklet.  I remember the campaign to place that booklet. Do you?

Yes, it was the first campaign I remember all our relatives were to be invied to the talk, every household was to get copy, including every preacher in town.

[1gemstone]

On 6/6/2019 at 10:12 AM, Shannie said:

At meeting last night a sister showed me something I didn't know...not sure if you did or not ...but here it is...

 

 

Follow go to
1)JW.org  
2)select "Publications"
3)select "Online library"
4)At the top right of the page you will see two squares press on them.
5) Then scroll down go to "books" 

All books we have ever had I believe Happy reading 😃
 

Revelation Book... Reasoning Book etc....

You can even download them to your phone and they will show up in your library ...or download to computer...💖💖

I don’t see #4, no two squares to press on my iPad, help please.

[Tortuga]

1 hour ago, 1gemstone said:

I don’t see #4, no two squares to press on my iPad, help please.

It may look like this

[The Outcast]

On 6/6/2019 at 5:34 PM, jpl said:

Thank you but how to download these books?

If older things are needed, it's more easy to use the Watchtower Library (Windows, DVD) to get access to the older literature.

 

[jwhess]

14 hours ago, The German said:

If older things are needed, it's more easy to use the Watchtower Library (Windows, DVD) to get access to the older literature.

 

The only problem with the App or DVD publications is that the older ones are not PDF scans so they don't have the pictures and charts and cover art (just text).  I have PDFs of most of the old material just for that reason.  The text is good for research but when it refers to the image the little text box just says "Picture on page 11 shows graphical portrayal of valley".".

[Maris]

On 6/6/2019 at 5:12 PM, Shannie said:

Revelation Book... Reasoning Book etc....

You can even download them to your phone and they will show up in your library ...or download to computer...💖💖

Really, awesome! I will try that out. 

[SUNRAY]

For reading older publications offline, I use iSilo 2013 Wt. Library

[Joey]

Does anyone know where the Yearbooks can be found?

[RNGuzman]

5 minutes ago, MyCookies said:

Does anyone know where the Yearbooks can be found?

In the Watchtower online library, go to Publications, Books, and yearbooks have a link at the very top of the column.  Then you can find any year you're looking for.

[jwhess]

1 hour ago, RNGuzman said:

In the Watchtower online library, go to Publications, Books, and yearbooks have a link at the very top of the column.  Then you can find any year you're looking for.

A good reminder (the yearbooks go back to 1970).

[Thesauron]

Whenever you are reading a publication in JW Library, and you want to deepen your study, a little trick is to click on the three dots (...) when you’re in an article and choose Open in (which has an arrow icon). It will give you the option to “Open in Online Library”.