[Sca-cooks] Spiral Bound or Perfect? One Book or Two

[Elaine Koogler]

I prefer the two volume version...and I will be getting one!

Kiri

On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 12:37 AM, David Friedman <ddfr at daviddfriedman.com>wrote:

> The tenth edition of the _Miscellany_ is going to total about 370 pages, of
> which about half is recipes and closely related articles. I plan to produce
> it via a POD online publisher, which should be both less expensive than
> Office Max and save me all the trouble of filling orders. Two questions:
>
> 1. What looks like the most attractive of the publishers only publishes
> perfect bound books; past editions of the Miscellany were "spiral bound,"
> which makes it possible for the book to lie flat fully open. That's an
> advantage for a book used in part as a cookbook. How much does it matter?
> Should I limit myself to publishers that offer such binding as an option?
>
> 2. Should the _Miscellany_ be published as two volumes, one on cooking and
> one on everything else? The arguments in favor of that are that one volume
> is going to be awfully big and that there is no reason to have something
> used as a cookbook half of which has nothing to do with cooking.
>
> --
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