I love recipes. I love collecting them. I love reading them. I love every nuance associated with recipes.
However, I am no longer a fan of just collecting the cookBOOKS. Seems strange, yes? Well. The problem I have with cookbooks is this: they are great to buy and read and look over but when it came time to meal plan I could never remember which book I found that great chicken recipe in or do I really want to go through the entire cookbook looking for something I sorta remember that sounded good times fifty books.
Cumbersome.
So, I began the even more cumbersome (shut it) task of photocopying recipes that I really wanted from the cookbooks and getting rid of the cookbooks. (Of course, this then required endless hours of sorting said recipes and then even more hours putting them into 3-ring binders. All time I will never get back, thankyouverymuch.)
Then I discovered the library.
And their vast array of cookbooks.
So, I would check out the cookbooks and sit down and read through them, making notes on pages of recipes I wanted to copy for my own collection.
Last week I was having wine with friends and it was brought to my attention that photocopying pages from a library cookbook was possibly against the law.
Huh?
Wha?
Really??
I turned to Google to see if I could find any answers and I couldn't really find anything telling me if what I'm doing is against the law. I did find out that you can't photocopy entire textbooks, first editions or otherwise without written permission from the publisher and the blood of the publishers first nephew. And, my husband informed me that if I was photocopying the entire cookbook and then trying to sell them at a bake sale, odds are against me there too. But, photocopying a handful of pages from a library cookbook hardly seems illegal to me. Of course, I'm sure the ones out there downloading music for free because it is just one little song can justify their dark ways too.
What do you all think?
Should I announce to my children at the dinner table WHERE I got the recipe from? "Family, tonight's Chicken Parmesan was from the cookbook, "How To Eat More Chicken" by Frances Dormey and Douglas Route published by Random House in 1993. Oh, page number 213-14. ENJOY!"
Would that kind of cover my ass?
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