is the latest and likeliest candidate for cookbook organizing, a great idea for people with big libraries or lots of books on a single subject. EYB works like this: you sign up, populate your bookshelf from their selection of 2,000 indexed and 85,000 unindexed books and counting, and then those books are yours to search. The idea behind EYB is that it helps you search all your books at once.
I went to my EYB bookshelf looking for a green tomato marmalade recipe that I couldn't locate and wa-hey! There it was in Putting Food By, by Janet Green. So I just walked to my bookshelf and pulled out the book. Beats the heck out of a Post-It note.
Because of copyright issues, you don't see the whole recipe, just the ingredients. What it does is help you find recipes in your library, and it's great if you have a big cookbook library.
EYB's roster of cookbooks is super-impressive. It includes plenty of trusted brands like Moosewood and Williams Sonoma, The Beautiful Cookbook series, and the Good Cook series from Time Life (but I doubt the fabulous Kodachrome photos are reproduced. ...)
It includes classics too good to be forgotten, like Giuliano Bugialli's Classic Techniques of Italian Cooking, The Thousand Recipe Chinese Cookbook, Recipes 1-2-3 by Rozanne Gold, Lorna Sass' Cooking Under Pressure and The Supper Book by Marion Cunningham, which I loaned out a decade ago, never to see again.
