Free cook book for Kindle

Are cookbooks on the Kindle a good idea? Yes,but how practical are they?

After a free Cook’s Illustrated cookbook was available on Kindle, there has been alot of positive feedback.

However Paul Biba highlights a slight flaw:

This is not the Kindle’s fault, but the fact that some things are just not meant for an ebook format. When using a cookbook one likes to flip through it browsing for recipes. You look at one, go back and compare it to another, maybe find a third and see if you can’t combine the ingredients of one or more of the others you’ve seen. You compare ingredients on hand with the recipe and change recipes if you don’t have some particular important ingredient and want to make something right now. You simply can’t do this flipping back and forth with an ebook. The screen delay is too long, you don’t know, and certainly can’t remember, what the other recipes are. Going back and forth from the table of contents to the index is a time-consuming process. The ergonomics of the whole thing is just not set up for cooking and recipe browsing.

Can cooking books work on the Kindle?

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