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I use Paprika to upload recipes from the Internet (or type in if necessary) the recipes I have tried and want to make again.

When I come across a recipe I want to try, I bookmark in Delicious using tags so I can easily find by ingredient, etc.

I have never tried Oyster or Scribd, but if they have cookbooks that would be good for me to try as I am such a cookbook junkied. My shelves are full, and I am now trying to buy on Kindle to save space.

And of course I use EYB.

Thank you for all these suggestions.  I'm such a dinosaur that it's hard for me to keep up with things and it's great to learn about these sites and apps. I'm going to check all of these mentioned here. 

I've tried using "My Recipes" via Cooking Light, since I subscribe to it, and I signed up for PepperPlate and never used it.  I put several of my personal recipes on Tasty Kitchens so I can access, print and share with friends.  However, the thing I use the most successfully is Pinterest.  

Pinterest is great for showing the picture and general catagorizing...however, not great if searching for anything in particular, which is why I joined EYB. 

For those people using other sites and apps for storing and bookmarking online recipes, why would you not use the EYB Bookmarklet?  In addition Personal Recipes allows you to add recipes such as clippings and family recipes.  The EYB service is intended to allow you to keep all your recipes in one place - cookbooks, magazines, online and personal.  If you have them spread around different services then it is much harder to find exactly the recipe you want.

I seldom use the "Add to EYB" bookmarklet, even though it's right there on my task bar.  When I'm zipping through web sites, I often find something worth following up on, but not right at the moment.  The EYB won't let me mark these pages, insisting that I have not added ingredients in the EYB indexing format, etc.  Am I doing something wrong?  Because I'd really like to use EYB instead of all these tiny pieces of paper floating around my computer desk.  FWIW, I am a charter member of EYB and use it constantly for everything except quick notes.  Those usually go into Pinterest.

Recipes added with the Bookmarklet are added to the public EYB Library as well as to your own Bookshelf which is why we ask that you index the recipe when using the Bookmarklet. Indexing the recipes fully is then a benefit to yourself as well as to other members searching for online recipes. I do proofread all recipes added with the Bookmarklet to make sure they are consistent with the Indexing guidelines. If you don't want to take the time to index the recipe and would prefer to just save the link to your Bookshelf for later reference without indexing it, you can add it as a Personal Recipe instead and just copy the title and URL into the form. Personal recipes are only seen by you, so it is up to you how much or how little information you would like to include.

I've been using SpringPad for years, but it's about to close down this month.  I've imported all my notebooks to Evernote and also have been adding them to my online MasterCook account in a To-Try Cookbook.  The main purpose of web-clipping is to store my To-Try recipe and food ideas and I can do it by category. 

I don't make all the recipes I save, but they're often as much an inspiration as a resource. After I try something, it's moved from the stash, either to a favourites/make again folder or just deleted. 

I'm not yet certain about Evernote - not as seemlessly simple to use as SpringPad.

I'll take another look at the Bookmarklet, but I wasn't successful in making work first time round.

Jane - I would love to store personal recipes in EYB if we can copy and paste with categories like pepperplate.  I use pepperplate to copy and paste recipes both English and Japanese and it works really well.  I don't necessary want to type in the recipes.  So right now I am using EYB and pepperplate for my cooking needs.  I also have like 8500 recipes in Mastercook and around 2000 recipes in Cookmanager (Japanese language). 

Evernote is great for grabbing and organizing. I would be curious to hear from anyone that has tried Evernote Food. 

I use living cookbook.

I own a cooking school and find it's great for keeping classes togther, working out shopping lists and aproximate costings.

Regards

Bec

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