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I've been collecting the kindle versions of my cookbook collection when they've been on sale.

I'm now up to just over 300. Thing is it's become a bit unwieldy as I've put them all in a Collection called 'Cookbooks' 

Is there a better way of organising them without having lots of collections i.e. Baking, French, Italian etc etc.

Thanks.

I just use the Kindle search function to find the book / author that I'm looking for, usually having done a search on EYB first to identify a recipe or a book that I want to look at.   A good proportion of my cookbooks are on Kindle and it got to be unwieldy quite quickly!

Hi Indio,

I use an open source program called Calibre, which lets me tag all of my books in any way I like.  It works on any computer operating system.   You can create a library of just titles, with no actual book in the library.  I'm not really familiar with the kindle app itself, but you might be able to tag books within a collection, or you could create collections of the type, Cookbook, Baking. or Cookbook, French.  At least then they would all be findable with one search.

Zephy

I've been looking at this recently

The thing is, I don't really want anything external to the app, one generally uses Kindle on either a dedicated Kindle device or another tablet, not on a laptop or a desktop, and one expects it to be all within the app

My impression is that Amazon expect you to use Kindle books like cheap airport paperbacks, buy them read them, put them away until you run out of new reading, that's certainly how they sell you books

You can't even sort within a Collection as far as I can see, which is pretty rubbish

i think all we can do is keep complaining to Amazon

The dream obviously would be to be able to search your recipes in EYB then open the one you choose directly in a linked Kindle app on the same device, but I suspect this would be near impossible 

Thanks.... Yes, I know of Calibre and have played around with it on & off for years but have never been able to get it to work with my kindle library on a Mac. I assume Amazon don't like them and are doing something but who knows?

Currently do but manually.....

I'll be at a market and notice say fennel looks particularly good so I'll search EYB to find a suitable recipe. Check the book title and then search on the kindle App to see if I have it for the actual recipe & details. Too many times I've not got a pantry item or worse it's for tonights dinner and it says something like marinade overnight or place in low oven for 5 hours.... 45mins before dinnertime :(

Don't always have access to EYB or the book might not be indexed etc.

The problem here really is the 'agricultural' design of the Kindle app which I doubt after all these years Amazon has any reason to improve just for cookbooks. I travel quite a bit (well before covid anyway) so have a reading book collection of around 600 books. The current basic system is fine for them.

Anyway just wondered if anyone knew something I'd overlooked.

Thanks all

Hi Indio32 ... I have 257 Kindle cookbooks and I thought that was a lot!  I don't like them as well as hardbacks, but was running out of physical space for them in my house.  They do have their advantages though (search, highlight, notes, etc.).  So far I have organized mine as follows and it seems to be working for me:

Cooking - Asian/Middle Eastern

Cooking - European

Cooking - General

Cooking - Healthy

Cooking - Mexican/Cuban/Spanish

Cooking - Pressure Cooker/Slow Cooker

Cooking - Spices/Herbs/Etc.

So far none of the collections seem too unwieldy - the largest ("Asian/Middle Eastern") has 77 books.  Of course this organization is per my buying habits; I'm sure yours differ.  I recently broke out "Spices/Herbs" from "General" when I started to see a pattern there.  And I precede all of the collection names with "Cooking" so they all fall together, apart from other Kindle collections.  I think every single of the 257, except maybe one or two, was bought on sale, at less than 5 bucks!

I am glad to see this topic.  My sub collection is arranged similarly to PennyG and have been looking at how I can better use recipes within kindle group.  I normally select daily evening meals based on protein choice, whether vegetarian or meat/seafood selection. I really try hard for us to eat two fish and one vegetarian a week. Then, decide what style of food I am craving a day ahead and pull out my needed items from very packed freezers, pantries and vegetable bins in the morning.  

I just recently found that by selecting kindle in my bookmark, main ingredient of choice from search ingredient and further typing exact item from search recipes, I can locate recipes of my choice for our evening meals.  I am hoping to use two recipes per week from my kindle books.  How do others use recipes in your kindle cookbooks? 

Haha my kindle cookbooks number 586,  but here I only annotated 517. Need to find out which books I forgot to annotate kindle.  

My literature is all cookbooks, with a few classical literary works added in, so for the most part cookbooks are my literature. I don't bother to organize them on kindle or anywhere else my digital versions of cookbooks may be located