On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 00:18:28 -0400, Carl Navarro >
wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:56:10 -0700, Lin >
>wrote:
>
>>Carl Navarro wrote:
>>
>>> I'd love to, but as long as my step-father and sister are still alive,
>>> I can't keep them :-)
>>>
>>> Carl, I only got them for a month or two
>>
>>Suggestion: Go to ebay, a used bookseller, ANYONE that can give you a
>>reasonable value for the books. Offer that amount to the step-father
>>and/or sister. Just buy the rights from her estate to keep them for
>>yourself. At least they will still be in the family.
>
>Actually, they're mine when my step-father doesn't need them any more.
>I'm just trying to do the right thing and make them available to the
>family now. I would NEVER part with them. It represents a lot of
>years and hard work that my mother spent collecting them.
>
>Fortunately she marked a lot of pages with recipies that happened to
>be my favorites. I just wish she had been in better health to let me
>copy them when she was alive. The last 6 months were not pleasant.
>
>Carl

Given the way your mom spent so much effort making the book up, I'd
just scan it as-is and print out the pages as exact duplicates and
then you can assemble a faux-book in a looseleaf binder and it'll be
as close as possible to the original. A recipe book like that is a
treasure.

I've got mama's recipes - her recipe book was hand-typed and when we
got a computer she retyped the whole thing and saved the files... I'm
very glad to have the recipes (and it's super-easy to share the
recipes with other people because all i have to do is cut-and-paste)
but they don't have as much character as yours.