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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by whateveracct on Thursday March 23, 2023 @11:06AM (#35275974)
Why exactly does a cookbook make more sense to rent than a novel? I'm very confused by this consensus in this thread.

Cookbooks if anything seem more useful to buy since they can sit in or near your kitchen and you can grab them and use them. Whereas you read a novel only every so often past the first read?

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Re:Book Publishers Won't Stop Until Libraries Are Dead by currency on Thursday March 23, 2023 @12:47PM (#35277536)
Probably depends on how you use recipes. If you prop the book up next to your work and don't want to worry about getting it messy, you'd want to buy it. If you tend to use one or two recipes per book, and copy them out and make notes and changes, you'd be happy borrowing the book for a bit.
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