[bksvol-discuss] Re: books searching and cookbooks
- From: "Tiffany H. Jessen" <tjessen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 18:29:31 -0500
Other people have already mentioned cooking without looking and other good
books which are available, but since you specifically mentioned Betty
Crocker I would suggest to look at National Braille Press' website at
www.nbp.org
This is what their Betty Crocker Book says:
Betty Crocker and Gold Metal Product Preparation Directions
A complete directory of 145 product package directions for Betty Crocker and
General Mills products.
General Mills has updated their complete directory of product package
directions in this third edition (copyright 2000). There's something in here
for everyone:
from Suddenly Salad Caesar Pasta Salad Mix to Hash Brown Potatoes or Four
Cheese Mashed Potatoes; breads like Traditional White or Raisin-Oatmeal; or
all
the sweet stuff, like Betty Crocker Double Chocolate Muffin Mix or
Strawberry Yogurt Cake. It's all here - one hundred and forty-five package
directions
- enough for years' worth of convenient cooking.
I'm not sure what electronic format it comes in, but it is available both on
floppy and CD.
I personally bought it before it was available in electronic format, so have
it in braille, but it's honestly not all that huge. It is three volumes, but
they are the thinner floppy volumes like which magazines come in, and not
the huge hardcover kind.
I don't seem to see it available in braille any more. I wonder what happened
there.. hmm?
Tiffany
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sarah Van Oosterwijck" <curiousentity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 1:35 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] books searching and cookbooks
> I just found an annoyance with bookshare stuff being listed from the NLS
> search. Everything bookshare has turns up in the list as an electronic
> resource, which is sometimes misleading. I am annoyed by finding the
> remote listings, because they are not free with a bookshare
> subscription, downloadable, or even an electronic resource. I'm not even
> sure why bookshare lists them. It is even worse to be taken from NLS to
> bookshare to APH just to find you can't obtain what you were looking for
> in a format you approve.
>
> As you can tell from my subject, my search was for Betty Crocker
> cookbooks. I simply won't have a braille cookbook that huge! I also
> don't want to pay a fortune for something I won't look at because it is
> made inconvenient by being in so many volumes.
> Does anyone know how to get ahold of a comprehensive electronic
> cookbook? Preferably Betty Crocker. Scanning is not a very practical
idea,
> because
> someone would have to edit the whole thing, and that someone won't be
> me. I'd by a CD if I could find something that would work. If some
> accessible book provider provided an electronic version of a popular
> cook book I would pay something for it as well. I just don't like
> really specialized or fancy cook books, and dont want one I can't trust
> because it may be full of scannos.
> If anyone has suggestions please let me know. Off list would be fine.
>
> I also wish General Mills would offer their boxed directions somewhere,
> because although I wouldn't consider two volumes too big, I'm not sure
they
> are up to date enough. they are constantly changing directions on boxes,
to
> my great annoyance. Of course I would probably also prefer that in
> electronic form. I've become very lazy when it comes to manual searching.
> ;-)
>
>
> Sarah Van Oosterwijck
> http://home.earthlink.net/~netentity
>
>
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