This article explains how to download a PDF of a Church magazine, a manual, or some other Church publication from the Gospel Library online.
Why would you want a PDF rather than just read the publication online?
- Graphic layout. For example, the printed magazines come in beautiful graphic layouts. But when you read the magazines on the Gospel Library app (mobile or online), the articles are mostly text with a few pictures. If you want to see the full graphic layout like the printed magazines, you can download the PDF format and flip through the pages just like the printed version.
- Searchability. Have you ever tried to search for an answer to a question in the General Handbook of Instructions or in a manual, like the recently published manual Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Thomas S. Monson? The search finds the results, but may not take you to the specific chapter where your answer is found. But if you download the PDF, you can search it and find exactly what you want in the whole publication.
How to Download Church Publications
To download the PDF version, go to a publication in the Gospel Library and click the menu icon (three dots) and then choose Download, as shown in the image below. You will then have options to download the Entire Book (PDF). Many publications also have options to download MP4 video and MP3 audio files.
Examples
Here is an example of an article of the magazine as it appears online:
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Here is what the same article looks like as a downloaded PDF:
Do you know why is the Liahona November 2022 General Conference Edition not available for pdf download?
The download has now been published at https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/liahona/2022/11?lang=eng
See https://lds365.com/2022/11/16/how-to-download-pdfs-from-church-gospel-library-online/ for instructions on how to download the PDF.
PDF downloads are now available by clicking on the stacked ellipsis and selecting “Download” and “Entire Book (PDF)”
I am looking for the 1964 edition of the Liahona magazine. I served as a missionary for the Church from 1963 to 1965. I t contains an article I was asked to write about a famous Native American woman rug weaver. I’m not sure if it still is the case, but then only women wove rugs. Near the end of my mission President J. Edwin Baird tasked me with finding her, take numerous photographs of her, write her story and then bring the photos back to the mission home to be published in the 1964 edition of the magazine. I am now 82 years old. No more need to said about that. I have since been blessed with 14 children, 58 grandchildren, and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren as well as a having achieved a number of university degrees. I now live in Utah with one of my sons and his family. May the Lord bless you and guide your search. Omer Whitman.
i desire to download the free gospel library and can NOT get there , to many choices not the one i am needing!