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One friend of mine has a child who is moving away from home in a couple of weeks. They purchased around 6 ebooks from Amazon to give them as a housewarming gift (family plan). Fortunately, they made the mistake of looking at them before the kid did.
Ummm... 3 cookbooks that say they have 500 to 800 recipes but actually contain from 230 to 315. Recipes that leave out ingredients especially when the ingredients are part of the name (Spicy Quinoa Salad with no quinoa listed for example). A book on housekeeping which they thought would give ideas on cleaning, etc. Sadly, half the suggestions seem to predate the invention of the vacuum cleaner, one recipe has you using sulphuric acid on the inside of your windows to keep them from frosting up. (I remember that one from a 2 volume book dating from the 1880s that I used to own. I picked it up for it's photography section which was dangerous enough but a lot of it's other items were, by today's standards, extremely hazardous.) Beating carpets? When was the last time you saw a carpet beater in use.
Overall, 4 of the 6 books read like poorly generated AI output as did most of the positive reviews for them. The other two were simply outdated with many of the recipes sounding like you would prepare them for a adult party in the 1950s. So many aspic recipes!
Amazon did allow them to return all the books and the kid is getting copies of books such as "The Absolute Beginner's Cookbook (Or How Long Do I Cook a 3-Minute Egg?).
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