Kim, you and I have similar interests in cookbooks. (smile) I'd like to see the list of cookbooks you'd like to have access to. I can help with scanning if they are at my library. I also have just been given a stack of cookbooks today, and I'll work on adding those too. Many of them are from Better Homes and Gardens or Taste Of Home. I don't know how well they'll scan. The Taste Of Home books seem to be doing well so far. The Better Homes and Gardens books are thinner but are also done in columns. I'll tackle one soon and see how well it works out. I did send a book called The Cake Bible to the Bookshare office with the hope that Carrie's proofreaders could work on it. I don't know if they are able to process it though. I hope so because there are a lot of good cake recipes in there. My mom used to read it to me. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker _____ From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kim Friedman Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 3:08 PM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks Hi, Monica, I thank you for your message. This stuff, needless to say, is unknown territory to me. The stuff I found on amazon.com vary in date, but I'll bet you some of them are definitely of recent vintage (not sure though). I thought these would be a change from the usual Weight Watcher stuff of which Bookshare seems to have a great amount. I like ethnic cookbooks and seem to be gravitating to cookbooks about desserts and baking, if only for making me imagine how those desserts might taste. (I'm getting hungry just thinking about this stuff.) I am not saying there shouldn't be books on health, diet, and nutrition, but I lean towards the straight cookbook that concerns itself with what people eat in a particular cuisine, how to get the ingredients, cooking methods, history of cooking in that cuisine, and (I hope) lovely delicious recipe instructions that make me wish I were eating what I'm reading about. Would anybody like me to go into amazon.com and I can send the names of cookbooks that I'm interested in seeing at bookshare, both the ones on my shopping cart (to be bought later) and those on my wish list? I think if anyone is interested in this I should send the lists directly to interested parties on the Bookshare volunteer discussion list. Also they might write me off list so nobody gets in trouble. Regards, Kim. <mailto:.bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard Sent: Friday, October 23, 2009 11:36 AM To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks Hi Kim and Jamie. For what it's worth, I've found that many cookbooks from the 80s and early 90s scan better than brand new cookbooks. I think that's because they were using computers with more standard fonts, and they tend to use real fractions instead of the half symbol in ingredient lists. Cookbooks from the 60s, on the other hand, don't scan so well because they often use a font that is sort of decorative or like handwriting, and the paper has yellowed. The Frugal Gourmet books from the late 80s scanned very well. I wish I still had them to submit. I scanned them back when I was using DOS when I scanned them in 1991, and they were almost flawless. I couldn't convert them when I started using Windows, and that means scanning them from scratch. I got them from my local library. That means I can get them again. I just need some vacation time to do more scanning. The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine is my favorite in that series. Oh no! Now I've made myself hungry from thinking about the Italian gravy recipe in that book. Monica Willyard "The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4537 (20091023) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4537 (20091023) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4545 (20091026) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4545 (20091026) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.com