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For example:

The book "Plenty" by Yotam Ottolenghi is indexed.

This recipe has a button to add it to my bookshelf: https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/recipes/398002/spicy-moroccan-carrot-salad

This recipe does not have the bookshelf button: https://www.eatyourbooks.com/library/recipes/398003/beetroot-orange-and-black-olive

Why can I not add the beetroot recipe to my bookshelf?

Also when I view the book "Plenty" by Ottolenghi, each recipe has a bookmark button next to it

When I view the book "Ottolenghi Simple: A Cookbook", the recipes do not.

Even though both are indexed. I cannot understand, what is the difference, why Simple does not contain bookmark buttons?

I think the "bookshelf button" next to recipe comes up only when there is an online recipe that you could add individually to your bookshelf if you do NOT own the book.  Some of the photos are uploaded by members after they've made the dish.. those are not online recipes, so therfore do not have a button to add. That may explain ??

When we started EYB we added a link to every online recipe that had been reproduced with the publisher's permission. In the case of Plenty that was a lot of recipes as Ottolenghi had first published the recipes in the Guardian.

However some years after we launched some of the top publishers said they would only continue to work with us if we reduced the number of online recipe links  (the number varies by publisher). We have complied with those limits ever since. Ottolenghi Simple was indexed after the limits were imposed. 

The service EYB provides is a search engine of the recipes in your own collection - your cookbooks, magazines or favorite online recipes. There is no point in adding an individual recipe in a cookbook you don't own if there is no Online Recipe link since you do not have access to the full recipe.

Originally Posted by: Jane

When we started EYB we added a link to every online recipe that had been reproduced with the publisher's permission. In the case of Plenty that was a lot of recipes as Ottolenghi had first published the recipes in the Guardian.

However some years after we launched some of the top publishers said they would only continue to work with us if we reduced the number of online recipe links  (the number varies by publisher). We have complied with those limits ever since. Ottolenghi Simple was indexed after the limits were imposed. 

The service EYB provides is a search engine of the recipes in your own collection - your cookbooks, magazines or favorite online recipes. There is no point in adding an individual recipe in a cookbook you don't own if there is no Online Recipe link since you do not have access to the full recipe.

hi Jane. ok thank you for the detail. I read the onboarding materials; but the flow that I'm supposed to take was quite confusing.

Like I added a book to my library, but then saw that it added every recipe, so it seemed overwhelming.

I think that I understand the flow now, please correct me:

add books to the bookshelf

bookmarks are the place for refining what you actually want to try. every recipe on your bookshelf can be added to a bookmarks, is that correct?

Yes, you add Bookmarks to recipes on your Bookshelf in order to make your search results more specific. The fixed Bookmarks are I've cooked this, I want to cook this and Favorite Recipes. You can create any additional Bookmarks that work for you and then use the Bookmark filters to apply those Bookmarks. If you want to learn more about this feature, take a look at Tutorial #4, accessed from the green Need Help? button at bottom right (not available on phones) or this Help section.