[bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

  • From: "Mike and Lori Castner" <mandlcastner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:33:44 -0700

Kim, I would encourage people to write you about this project onlist, not off 
list.  This has to do with building the collection.
Mike
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kim Friedman 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 12:08 PM
  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.  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



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