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When recipes from a book are indexed, they're assigned numbers that allow them to be displayed in the same order as the recipes appear in the book.  That's the default display order when looking at a given book's recipes via the Book view -- whether on one's own Bookshelf or in the EYB Library -- and other sort choices are available.

However, if you look at the same book's recipes in the Recipes view, by clicking on "Search this book for Recipes", the recipes appear in a different (unspecified) order, and 'Book Order' is not one of the available sort order choices.  It should be.  In fact, it should be the default display order, as it is in Book view.

A member has previously asked about the discrepancies between the available choices for sort order between the Book view and Recipes view, I think, but I couldn't find the thread.  Certainly, the two drop-down sort menus could be made more consistent: give a Z-to-A option for sorting recipes in Recipes view, and re-order the choices in the Recipes view dropdown to match more closely those in Book view:  Book Order, A-Z, Z-A, Rating, Buzz, then Recently Added [which for recipes within a specific book is usually the exact reverse of Book Order], Author, and Date Published.

The default sort order for the recipes on the book details page and on the search page should both be book order. It is a bug that it is not on the search page and it is on our developer's list for a fix.

The sort orders for both Books and Recipes are in the same alpha order though not every sort is applicable to both.  So I think what you are saying is that you want Z-A added to both book and recipe sorts, since all the other sorts you mention are already there - with Book Order being the default sort for a book's recipes (once the bug is fixed) and Recently Added being the default sort for all recipes.

Thanks, Jane.  I'm glad it's already on your radar.

This came up for me because I gave a copy of Ottolenghi's Plenty More to friends and wanted to accompany it with a list of the recipes, organized by chapter.  To copy off for a text file, I used the 'Recently added' sort order in condensed view, which at least preserves the book order in reverse, and copied and pasted to get them in the right order.  Because the friends are EYB members, it was nice to be able to asterisk the recipes with online links (all but about 40 of them).

It's tragically stupid of Ten Speed not to include a listing of the recipes anywhere in the book, as just looking them over propels one to the kitchen (or to checkout, if book-shopping).   I will give the designer props for including the chapter title at the bottom of each page alongside a readable page number, which makes navigating a photo-heavy book much easier.