I prefer digital over paper when possible. It is time to update my version of “Joy of Cooking”. I just finished getting the Apple Books version and found it totally un-usable. It was not possible to jump to the index and then go to a page to use a recipie. I was hopping it would work like a PDF file where I could “Find” in an OCR file.
Can somebody with an iPad and Kindle books tell me how a cookbook would work using the Kindle app on an iPad?
If you have a library card you can check out ebooks with the Libby app. I just checked, and my Libby app didn’t have the joy of cooking, but it did have 22 cook books. Check one out for free, and see if you like it or not.
The Joy of Cooking (2019 edition) EPUB seems to work well in Calibre on Windows. I downloaded it from:
https://oceanofpdf.com/authors/irma-s-rombauer/pdf-epub-joy-of-cooking-download/
This is technically a pirated copy, so if you have problem with that don’t do it. The EPUB is 50 MB but I got it down to 15 MB in Calibre by compressing images to 80% quality, which still look good enough. I’ll transfer to my Kindle and let you know if it’s still usable both with the Kindle App on an iPad and on a Kindle reader.
UPDATE: after transferring the Joy of Cooking to my Kindle library, it looks like there is no way to return to where you were reading after clicking on a hypertext link in the book. The venerable old “Kindle Keyboard” model that had a physical keyboard included a back button that worked well. As near as I can tell, the new Kindles seem to have abandoned any way to “go back” in a book. Surely I must be missing something right? If not, this is reason alone to NEVER get a Kindle!
UPDATE 2: Ok, there is a “back to location nnnn” that appears on the bottom of the page after following a link but that stays the same if you follow subsequent links from the first one. So, it’s not a general “back” function.