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I've tried achieving that task by making a note on the recipe in the main bookshelf.. or on the book itself noting the recipe I want to try. You can make it a personal note, so it doesn't end up on the EYB notes, only your own notes. Unfortunately, it seems you can't add a bookmark to a note, so you then have to scan (using CTRL F) all your own notes to find it again... not overly successful/usable when you have 38 pages of your own notes! ;-)

Thanks for pointing this out, that notes can be added to recipes not in the bookshelf, I hadn’t realized that.  But you’re right, about the cumbersomeness of this approach.  All I want is to be able to bring up a list of recipes that interest me (owned or not), and then apply Search filters to them (e.g. if I am having a guest with dietary restrictions, or I want to narrow to a certain ethnicity, etc.). 

It would be nice if there was something simple I could click to indicate that I’m interested in that recipe, similarly to how I can click on the heart for books I want to wishlist.  For example, I would like to find which easy-prep one-pan cooking-for-crowds cookbook appeals to me.  If I could easily mark recipes I encounter, then over time I could see which book has the most recipes that interest me, to identify which one I want to buy.  Or, if recipe search could apply to recipes in wishlisted books, that would work, but right now I don't see how to make that happen.

If bookmarks could be permitted on recipes from unowned books, that would work. Although that does take a few clicks, it might be worth it to help me find recipe (and cookbooks) I am interested in.

 I have tried out two work-arounds, but they are all more cumbersome:

 - Create a personal recipe, which points to the original recipe source.  But to be fully useful, ingredients have to be added and all the other info (course, etc.) have to be done, basically duplicating the work done when that recipe was originally indexed.  I’ve done this with recipes I see in magazine cookbook reviews, with a pointer back to the original source, e.g. https://www.eatyourbooks...dressing-unsweetened-for

 - Pretend that I own the book and add it to my bookshelf, and then bookmark the recipe(s) I’m interested in.  But then my EYB bookshelf becomes cluttered with recipes I don’t own and am not necessarily interested in, and I won’t have an accurate inventory of which books I actually own (unless I also create a bookmark of actually owned).  

 I really want a way to focus on my own curated list of recipes, whether or not I own the book, because (among other things) I would like to build up a list of books I am potentially interested in buying, or for situations as above where I may have it from another non-EYB source.  Is there something about how to use EYB for recipe flagging that I am missing that would help me accomplish this?  Thanks.

Bookmarks are a Bookshelf function so yes, you do need to have the book on your Bookshelf to be able to bookmark the recipes. I suppose it could be possible to have wishlist recipes in the Library, in the same way we have wishlist books. You could then search all your wishlist recipes but it would be a separate search to your Bookshelf search. I'd be interested to hear from other members if this would be something useful. I'm not saying it would happen any time soon as we have a lot of development work on, but it could get added to the list if there was enough interest.

Yes please, I think being able to bookmark recipes in books not in your personal library is a great idea!

I'm fairly certain that we cannot have individual recipes from books you don't own being added to Bookshelves. The way our developer explained it to me was that searching books is quick, searching individual recipes is slow. Any member with a large number of individual online recipes on their Bookshelf will have slower search than members whose online recipes are from indexed blogs (which are treated like books). I'm also not sure technically that recipes without Online Recipe links can even be added to Bookshelves. But we have changed developers since then so I will enquire whether it is feasible.

My proposal on Wishlisted Recipes would maybe get around this and yes, the suggestion was there would be a filter in the Library, just as there is for Wislisted Books.