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Lindacakes, I SO appreciate your passion for this topic. I would be devasted to lose so many of my recipes. I think you pointed out what I need to remember - to always back up, maybe in duplicate, like the safe deposit box. I lost all my music in a crash once and it has taken me years to reconstruct my library - still doing it.

OK, thank you! You all have reminded me of the power of Evernote, a program I have always loved, I just forgot about lately. I love that I can take a picture of a recipe without having to type it in, then tag it and put it in my "Recipes" notebook (you can set up more than one notebook on Evernote. Evernote is free and it syncs wirelessly with your phone - love that). Can't do that with eatyourbooks.com. So I will be using those two programs until they can talk to each other. I don't mind checking two sources at this point.

livingcookbook looks awesome. Can you search on an ingredient or on a date?

We all now have recipes as: 3x5 cards Clippings handwritten cookbooks I started a " hall of fame" notebook a few years ago, in which I listed the recipes I really liked and where they are in my "system" , such as it is. I didn't make it digital because I didn't know what software would make it easily searchable. Now it's 4 years later and I really would like to be able to search on an ingredient. I love the Eat Your Books website but I don't know an alternative to the drudgery of typing in my own recipes. I'm curious how others handle their recipe collections.