When it comes to media, these days I'm flattering ample all digital, all the time. Books, TV, movies, song - nothing sinks in to my brain without initial running by an iPad or a Kindle. But in a area, I'm as ample of a Luddite as my buddy Jimmy (who "doesn't think in GPS"): prepare books.
Why? Paper books are still way simpler to crop than electronic. They're moreover more volatile to splashes. And we contingency confess that even thought I'm not a "page sniffer" similar to Jimmy, we still similar to the earthy inlet of a raise of cookbooks. Maybe its since it signals to guest that we take in progress seriously.
But as with everything, cookbooks will finish up on Kindles and iPads. This week, Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking will launch in electronic form. The publishing house - Alfred A. Knopf - has attempted to technology the typical 1961 content once before, but inner governing body and plan problems led to the project's cancellation.
Child's important book isn't the initial electronic cookbook, of course. It's not even the initial of Child's books to make it to the Kindle. But as a desired classic, it signals the last theatre in the conversion of books from print to e-ink (or LCD screens).
It moreover highlights a of the large problems with bringing aged manuscripts in to the modern age. Despite being in print since the 60s, the publishing house has never had the book in electronic form. The whole 762 pages had to be retyped.
Mastering the Art of French Cooking will launch Wednesday, for $20.
Adapting Julia Child for E-Readers [NYT. Thanks, Mr.Abell!]
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