[bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks

  • From: "Lori Castner" <loralee.castner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 06:21:07 -0700

Kim what intimidates you about the cannon scanner?  My husband uses one and has 
had very good luck.

Lori C.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Kim Friedman 
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:15 AM
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks


  Hi, Monica, if you are interested The Cake Bible is in the NLS program.  In 
fact, I got the recording and duplicated it for my personal use. Rose Levy 
Beranbaum has other cookbooks and one of them is The Pastry Bible. I think her 
books may be tough because her ingredients lists are written using weight 
measurements as well as the cups and spoons measurements we're used to. Along 
with that, she uses sidebars which have commentary. I imagine there are a lot 
of illustrations in her books. I have heard of Taste of Home, but haven't read 
the magazines they produce. I'm getting Bon Appétit and I used to get Gourmet. 
I have found some neat cookbooks. I've got some cookbooks in print that I'd 
definitely love to see in the Bookshare collection. I have a Canon LIDE90 
scanner but am unsure and intimidated about using it. It's a flatbed scanner 
and is longer than it is wide. It's sitting there on my desk and is plugged 
into the computer with a USB cable. Anyhow, thanks for writing back. Regards, 
Kim.



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  From: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
[mailto:bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Monica Willyard
  Sent: Monday, October 26, 2009 4:31 PM
  To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: bookbooks


  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




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[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.  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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