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The book is indeed available, but a book is very different from an app which features a new recipe each week, and the scan, though helpful,  is far from publisher  quality. 

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On Jul 13, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Judy Wilkinson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> I alas also tried to get some redress from the developers of Bittman's How to Cook Everything: alas no joy. The cookbook of the same name is available from Bookshare however.
> Judy
>        
> On Jul 13, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Penny Reeder <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> 
>> I don't know about the others, but the "How to Cook Everything" is not
>> accessible.  I wrote to the maker of the app, which is not the
>> NYTimes, to ask that they make the recipes accessible with VoiceOver,
>> and they said it costs too much for them to do so.  Very frustrating
>> and disappointing!
>> Penny
>> 
>> On 7/13/13, peter altschul <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> 10 Of The Most Popular iOS Apps Are Free This Week
>>> For the App Store's fifth anniversary, Apple is offering 10
>>> top-tier apps as free downloads for a limited time.
>>> Christina Chaey
>>> Ten top-tier iOS apps, which normally retail for up to $19.99
>>> in the case of the DJing app Traktor DJ are free to download this
>>> week as part of a mini-fire sale to celebrate the fifth
>>> anniversary of Apple's App Store, which has grown from 500 apps
>>> to more than 900,000 since it opened in 2008.  These apps are
>>> only free to download for a limited time, so get tapping:
>>> ininTraktor DJ for iPhone and iPad This app, which normally
>>> retails for $19.99, lets you spin and mix tracks like the DJ
>>> pros.
>>> ininBadland This game, which takes you through a series of
>>> obstacles within a fairytale-like forest, won an Apple Design
>>> Award at the company's developer conference this year.
>>> ininBarefoot World Atlas Barefoot World Atlas's 3-D globe
>>> interface acts as a starting point for discovering new facts
>>> about the world's countries, landmarks, wildlife, and more.
>>> ininDay One Day One is a personal journaling app for Mac,
>>> iPhone, and iPad that lets you keep track of your daily
>>> happenings, whether that's jotting down ideas or tracking the
>>> meals you ate.  It won Apple's Mac App of the Year award in 2012.
>>> ininHow To Cook Everything The mobile app version of /New York
>>> Times/ columnist Mark Bittman's /How To Cook Everything/ cookbook
>>> includes 2,000 recipes, hundreds of illustrations, and advice on
>>> techniques, equipment, meal-planning, and more.
>>> ininOver Use Over to add beautiful artwork or captions in a
>>> host of elegant fonts to your photos.
>>> ininInfinity Blade II This role-playing combat game is a sequel
>>> to the highly accoladed /Infinity Blade/.
>>> ininTiny Wings for iPhone and iPad In Tiny Wings, you play one
>>> of five mostly flightless birds who catch bits of airtime by
>>> jumping off hills.
>>> ininSuperbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP This music-based game
>>> follows the adventures of a female warrior protagonist in the
>>> mountainous wild, and is set to a soundtrack composed by Jim
>>> Guthrie.
>>> ininWhere's My Water? /Where's My Water"/ players bring water
>>> to Swampy the Alligator's broken shower by getting through levels
>>> of physics-based puzzles.
>>> 
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