They really enshittified the internet so hard that it’s more convenient to have these bulky ass (expensive too if you don’t get second hand…) books that you have to flick through and find room to store and try not to spill shit on and stick little bookmarks in to save commonly used recipe, god damn.
For years I used a search engine, and used Pinterest a lot too to save recipes and categorise them. But the SEO slop, the AI slop, the ads…. It’s just become horrific half the time. I did try downloading a few eBooks and pdfs but the format is really not great for cookbooks.
If anyone has any recommendations for sites or apps that aren’t fucking terrible I would love that. Especially 
ones.
I got a physical cookbook recently at a yard sale called v is for vegetables because while it isn’t vegan it had some nice pictures of dishes that were and it was essentially free so whatever
But like jfc it phones in so much so hard like it will be like “B, bok choy” and just give the most basic ass fried bok choy “recipe” (have you considered frying it and adding salt?). For Y it literally says Yams then goes “look i needed a Y word okay” and then gave a recipe for the most basic ass roasted sweet potato. This is from like some fancy ass chef guy. That it makes me go like christ fuck recipe books have to be an easy grift, like, fuck, I’ve done vegan yaki udon before theres your Y you dumb fucker
But it has had a few cool things in it like this beetroot tartare that i haven’t tried yet, and it introduced me to sunomono style quick pickled salads which im adding to when i do cold stuff like shiitake bao buns