Quote:
|
"Digital is strictly functional."
|
Really? I have some *lovely* digital cookbooks. And digital opens the doors to multi-media.
Quote:
Originally Posted by disconnected
Cookbooks are one case (like knitting books and the like) where I think the publishers would do well to offer a combination deal -- buy the print version and get the digital version for a small additional charge. It's handy to have access when you're not at home -- in the grocery store for example.
|
Indeed. Knitting & crochet books in paper allow you to mark/strike out/highlight the rows as you complete them and thus keep your place. It might be possible to do this with a digital book, but I think not as conveniently. Portability of the digital version is a really good idea.
When I use recipes from the Internet, I might take the tablet into the kitchen and view the web page while cooking. It's more likely, however, that I save a copy to my PC's hard drive (typically by printing the web page to PDF) so I can find it later, even if the web site goes offline. (Learned my lesson there!) Then when cooking the recipe, I'm likely to print a paper copy rather than transferring the recipe to my tablet to take it into the kitchen. I also save some recipes to Pinterest to help me find it again, but I like having the local copy safely on my PC.
Quote:
Originally Posted by treadlightly
I'd love to see cookbooks and other instructional books fully use multimedia functions possible in an ebook. It would be cool to tap an ingredient to see a photo of it (i.e. arugula vs spinach), or tap a technique to see a short video of how to do it (i.e. how to knead a ball of dough). These types of books would be more suited to colour tablets of course.
|
Yeah that. I suppose that the media could be links to online content like YouTube as well as packaged as part of the cookbook itself.