mibook: An eBook for Life!

I have been thinking a lot lately about starting to purchase cookbooks for my Kindle, but the ones I really want are not available.  Boo.  I have been reading a lot about the mibook (pronounced ‘my book’) – which seems to maybe take the “cookbook on Kindle” idea a step (or 5) further.  With the slim 7 inch mibook, you can watch video demos of your recipes, with the ability to work along, step by step.  Hmm…

I am not sure of a few things with the mibook that are holding me off from running right out to buy one:

1.  I am not sure if it would be annoying.  “First, chop this celery into 92,000,000 pieces” – it shows you how to do it, then the video stops and waits for you.

2.  I am not sure of the content itself.  I am not a picky eater, but how many recipes are going to really be good, or food that my family would enjoy?  The Food Network is one of their partners, and Lord knows I do fix a lot of recipes from them, so this is probably good. 

3.  Is the content “dumbed down” too much for the general public?  Will I actually get something from this?  I know how to chop celery, I don’t need a video demo to show me how.

So, the mibook currently has 25 cooking titles (think cookbooks), and will soon have 100.  Along with cooking, they also cover home and garden, parenting and travel, all subjects which I could envision video being awfully nice to have.  Maybe the travel destination guidebooks most of all.  So anyway, I am definitely intrigued.

The mibook is available at a number of retailers (Bed, Bath & Beyond, Bon Ton, Borders to name a few), and the MSRP is $129.99, with the individual titles (SD cards) costing $19.95 each. 

This hasn’t become a need for me yet, but I can see it becoming one.  I am in hopes they have a demo at Bed, Bath & Beyond that I can check out….  Have you seen one?