(I can't help much with the file size. If it were me, I'd see what GhostScript/GSView could do with it, but I doubt that it handles links and indexes well. I would assume that it's safest to adjust the images yourself before feeding them to your PDF creator. If you're worried about the time required, you could try something like Phatch - http://photobatch.stani.be/ (which I have only used briefly).)

I didn't check the link initially, and I didn't have an eBook reader, so I did some looking around. GowerPoint was recommended.

I downloaded the demo version of GowerPoint's uBook for Windows - http://www.gowerpoin...m/uBook_down.html - and installed it. The software seems pretty good.

Then I downloaded your eBook and saw it was just a PDF. It looks great in Adobe Reader. A couple of quick, nit-picky, suggestions.

1) There seem to be a lot of blank pages. I understand why you would want that if you're printing (e.g. to always have a recipe start on the left page), but for reading on the screen it's disconcerting. Is there some way you can put something on the page, or only include the blank page when printing?

2) Maybe present the recipes in ascending order (like Letterman's Top10 list)? Having #1 first seems to take the suspense out of it.

Finally, if you're thinking about people reading it on phones and iPads and such, I hope you're actually trying some of the readers for those devices. Unfortunately, in uBook it looks horrible. Just the text is shown and much of the formatting is lost. (There's a pointer to a better PDF to HTML converter - http://minnie.tuhs.o...tohtml/index.html - but I dunno how well it works yet). You might need a HowTo or ListofRecommendedReaders or such if you're concerned that people may put it into something other than Acrobat or GSView.

Otherwise, it is very well done. Thanks for the advance look! HTH a little.

Cheers,
Scott.

The cover - it's a beautiful picture. :-)

The falling stove gets your attention, but maybe not in a good way...? I think it's a great image to include with your writings and immediately gets across the "grandmother" idea.

Honestly, I'm probably the last person to be asked about graphics design issues. I think it's well done, and it gets your attention, but it's also a little distracting from the food.

Maybe Rand can offer some thoughts?

Cheers,
Scott.