About a year ago, I purchased the prepublication of the digital version of Barth's Church Dogmatics which was being published by Logos. Purchasing prepublications gets you a deal, but also a lot of gutwrenching web twitching as you check to see when it is going to be finished. I hoped I would receive it before I finished my dissertation, but as the months stretched on I began to wonder. I called the helpdesk but no one could tell me when it was going to ship. I found a blog on the Logos homepage talking about upcoming publications. All I could find out was that it was in prodcution. I imagine they probably had a number of people hounding them. Silence can be the best expectations management strategy I suppose. Then a random email came a few weeks ago, "This is to inform you that your recent Pre-Pub order of Barth's Church Dogmatics (14 volumes) is now preparing to ship." I thought, I'll bet you anything it will arrive the day of my viva at the virtual end of my dissertation. Sure enough, I got home today, opened the mailbox, and what to my wondering eyes should appear? But one tiny cd with 14 volumes of Barth's theology on it. If Barth is watching down from heaven, I imagine he's smiling.

In any case, they are very snazzy and, unlike the paper edition, there's no need to hire a sherpa when checking them out of the library.