Amaranth
12-21-12, 4:46pm
Learned about EatYourBooks.com from an NPR broadcast.
How it works:
They index many different cookbooks.
The user checks off which books they have.
The user then does a google-like search for what they would like to cook --say turkey squash soup
The search returns a list of all the recipes in the books that the user owns where a soup recipe contains both turkey and squash.
The result is that the user can search all their cookbooks (at least the ones that are indexed) in under a minute.
The user can then decide which one they want to make.
You can also include books you don't have in the search. If a particular book keeps popping up, it might point you toward the next cookbook to check out.
The site also indexes blogs, magazines, and online recipes.
The user can search everything or a subset.
You can test it out for free with 5 of your books. If you want it to search all your books you can join for 2.50 a month or 25 a year.
If you join, you can also help out by indexing some of your own books that aren't already indexed. The professionals at the site work to index the most highly desired books first.
As a bonus you can search a category of books by popularity to see which books are owned by the most other users. In doing that I discovered some that are popular with other users but that I didn't run across at the library yet.
How it works:
They index many different cookbooks.
The user checks off which books they have.
The user then does a google-like search for what they would like to cook --say turkey squash soup
The search returns a list of all the recipes in the books that the user owns where a soup recipe contains both turkey and squash.
The result is that the user can search all their cookbooks (at least the ones that are indexed) in under a minute.
The user can then decide which one they want to make.
You can also include books you don't have in the search. If a particular book keeps popping up, it might point you toward the next cookbook to check out.
The site also indexes blogs, magazines, and online recipes.
The user can search everything or a subset.
You can test it out for free with 5 of your books. If you want it to search all your books you can join for 2.50 a month or 25 a year.
If you join, you can also help out by indexing some of your own books that aren't already indexed. The professionals at the site work to index the most highly desired books first.
As a bonus you can search a category of books by popularity to see which books are owned by the most other users. In doing that I discovered some that are popular with other users but that I didn't run across at the library yet.