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Hi Darienne I recently bought a good casseroles book called The Ultimate Casseroles Book by Better Homes and Gardens - ISBN 97811180200357 It is 478 pages and beautifully printed with many photos It does have an American slant but I have not found any trouble with substitutions here in Australia Neil

The cookbooks that I prefer for reading and actually cooking from are the ones published by - Hermes House and their sister publishing houses Anness Publishing and Lorenz Books. They are very readable and have accompanying photos of the dishes. They are usually fairly thick books with 256 or 512 pages about 9 ins high x 7 ins wide They are printed on gloss paper which comes in handy to keep clean when using them in a kitchen and use an easily readable font face of reasonable size to cater for oldies like me/ Neil

Anna N said "Done it more than once! Usually though it's a garage-sale or charity store purchase. I feel very foolish afterwards even though it's not a ton of money. It's so silly because it is always a book that didn't catch my interest after I got it home the first time! If it had I would know I owned it" I confess that I have done the same a number of times. Once recently was to buy a bundle of cookbooks because it had a few I wanted - but 1 I had already purchased so I don't really count that one do I ? Neil

LTWong wrote I have a question for those with too many cookbooks - how do you keep track of which book has recipes that you like to do again? I used to jot down in a (paper) notebook recipes from books that I have tried that I like to add to my Can-Do-Again list, but am finding that it's easier to record it in my laptop for easier search and retrieval purposes. I'm interested to learn how others do it so that I can perhaps learn a better way. How I have managed this is to create a database using MS Access. In this database I list Recipe name Cookbook name Page Location of cookbook (such as Loungeroom 1 / Shelf from bottom ) Category of recipe (such as Casserole, Slow Cooker etc ) Notes ( When I have made this particular recipe ) It was very easy to make the database using MS Access. I can search the database to show say all Chicken Casseroles , Beef slow cooked etc Neil

Can you get ecookbooks on the Booko site

I , like many others , like the feel and looks of a physical book that I can sit and comfortably browse. I am not sure a small reading device about 6 ins will replace my large cookbooks. Having said that I can see that progress will in all inevitability take us down the path of ebooks. Other than Amazon do any members know a secure site to download ecookbooks as my only 2 attempts resulted in having viruses invade my computer and the cost of having it cleaned was far far more than what I would have paid for a hard copy of the cookbook I was trying to download. I have bought many books from Betterworld Books and was surprised to hear they are not a charity. As I live in Australia shipping costs to me are important and I find www.thriftbooks.com in the US and www.awesomebooks.com in the UK very reasonably priced books and shipping is also reasonable

I was embarrassed to admit I have about 200 cookbooks but after reading this thread I guess I am just a minnow. I bought 2 new ones this past week and they contain many many wonderful recipes but are also works of arts with such great quality of printing Curry Kitchen / Jacki Passmore / ISBN 9780670074488 / 313 pp / 10 in x 9.25 in 660 Curries /Raghavan Iyer / ISBN 9780761137870 / 809 pp / 9 in x 8 in