Yes yes, so we’ve all sworn off buying more cookbooks because we simply have too many or that we’ve run out of shelf space or that we don’t use the existing ones enough. But once I start surfing around Amazon.com, I always find cookbooks that I “simply must have”. Afterall, I’ve used at least one recipe from each of my cookbooks thus far. Some justification eh?

And so this is my latest haul from Amazon.com, with one more book due to arrive soon. They somehow split the shipment into a few smaller shipments, and these ones that shipped later actually arrived first. Kinda weird. Ever since I did a price comparison on cookbooks sold in local bookshops like Borders or Kino with those sold on Amazon.com, I’ve almost solely bought cookbooks from Amazon. Especially those that are large, hardcover, and heavy. Amazon calculates shipping by book, not by weight (unless of course you exceed 4 pounds per book), and so even with shipping thrown in, they are still about 40% cheaper than what I can get locally. Sometimes, they’re up to 60% cheaper!

In this latest haul I’ve acquired eight new books – 6 of them are shown in the picture above, one of them is on its way and the other is a baby puree book. And I’m happy. It’s my Christmas present to myself.