Adding a Cookbook

Cookbooker has a catalogue of thousands of cookbooks. When you add a cookbook to your shelf, you're linking to an existing catalogue entry — or creating a new one if it doesn't exist yet.

Add an existing cookbook

1. Any time you come across a cookbook in a search or while reading a fellow member's review, you can add it to your shelf with the "Add to shelf" button.
2. If you don't own the book, you can still add it, or just select "want to try" from the drop-down list and it will be added to your shelf as a title you want to try.

Adding from your bookshelf

1. Click Add a cookbook in the navigation, or go to /bookshelf/add.
2. Type the title into the search box. Results from the Cookbooker catalogue will appear.
3. If your cookbook is not in the catalogue already, you can search Open Library for it, or add it manually (this may be necessary for self-pubished and community cookbooks).
4. Click the result that matches your edition and it will be added to your shelf.

Adding a book manually

If your book doesn't appear in either search result, you can add it to Cookbooker yourself:

1. Click Add a new cookbook at the bottom of the search results.
2. Fill in the title, author, and ISBN if available. If your book has no ISBN (community, church, or self-published cookbooks), tick This book doesn't have an ISBN and leave the field blank.
3. Submit — your entry will be added to the catalogue and to your shelf.

Cookbooker will automatically try to fetch a cover image using the ISBN. This may take a few moments in the background. Books without an ISBN won't have an automatic cover, but you can request a cover add by contacting us.

Websites and magazines

Cookbooker supports three types of sources:

• Cookbook — a physical or digital book (ISBN-based)
• Website — a recipe website like Smitten Kitchen or The Wednesday Chef
• Magazine issue — a specific issue of a food magazine

When adding a new entry, select the appropriate type. Website entries use a URL instead of an ISBN; magazine entries include the publication name and issue date.