They really enshittified the internet so hard that it’s more convenient to have these bulky ass (expensive too if you don’t get second hand…) books that you have to flick through and find room to store and try not to spill shit on and stick little bookmarks in to save commonly used recipe, god damn.
For years I used a search engine, and used Pinterest a lot too to save recipes and categorise them. But the SEO slop, the AI slop, the ads…. It’s just become horrific half the time. I did try downloading a few eBooks and pdfs but the format is really not great for cookbooks.
If anyone has any recommendations for sites or apps that aren’t fucking terrible I would love that. Especially 
ones.
I've just been doing search results filtered to 2020 and before, but it's a pain. It's so incredibly enshittified that searching for any recipe you just get those LLM answer coded walls of text with even more irrelevant information that was in the worst blog type recipe posts.
I love my cookbooks, but it isn't easy to get cookbooks for everything I want to make. Food travelling thanks to the internet used to be my favourite thing, but starting to hate it more and more these days.