[bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

  • From: "Kim Friedman" <kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:40:00 -0700

Hi, okay, I take your point. I just didn't want to clutter up the list
unnecessarily. I also hesitated since I was informed about how difficult
cookbooks are to scan. How do you wish me to proceed on this? Would you like
me to go to amazon.com and print out the cookbooks I found on my shopping
cart and wish lists? I can make a copy of the cookbooks which I found
interesting and send it to the list. Will that do? Regards, Kim.

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[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mike and Lori
Castner
Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 5:34 PM
To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks


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  <mailto:kimfri11@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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.   <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
 


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