Am thinking of getting rid of all my cookbooks. Am I nuts?

I'm thinking about doing the same thing. I would keep the joy of cooking and my cooking light magazines but ditch the rest because I never use them and I would love to have the shelf space... it's a good new year purge

Nope, I got rid of all mine and love it!! I haven't regretted it once!

I really don't remember the last time I used an actual cookbook. Thank God for the internet. The only cookbook I would keep would be something that was maybe passed down for generations. My Nana had quite the cookbook with so many recipes tucked in it that she used frequently. She passed away last year and I'm pretty sure my Sister has possession of it. I need to get some of those recipes, but even then I'd just stick them in a binder like you're using.

I don't believe I could get rid of mine.  I enjoy looking thru and reading them quite often even if I'm not planning on cooking right then.  I just rec'd a new one for Christmas.

I lost most of my cookbooks in the divorce. Only one I've missed having. It was a bread book with a lot of different types of bread. Everything else I just look online these days.

I am considering the same in the great purge of 2015. I do the same as you, I use the same handwritten ones over and over or I go to the internet. I am, however, missing one cookbook that, if I find, I will keep. It had several recipes that I used over and over and were always hits. The rest are just 'meh'. I never open them. And for Pete's sake I have so many magazine recipes ripped out that I have never once used. I'm thinking fire starters?

On a side note, I loved my Pioneer Woman cookbooks but I lent them both to BFF. Her house burned down, so the books were lost. After the dust settled, I started putting her together a basket of 'stuff' she would need in her new temporary home whle their house was rebuilt. I emailed Ree Drummond and damn if she didn't email me back personally. I asked if I shipped her new copies, would she sign them and ship them back on my dime. She gave me the cookbooks, signed them for BFF and shipped them. I had them within 3 days of her reply. Pretty classy.

That would be so hard for me to do! More power to ya!

I know I sit on a lonely bench, but I could never.

Aside from the fact that I simply love them, I am waaay too clutzy (not to mention blind) to use my laptop or tablet while I'm cooking.  

I don't think I'll ever give up my cookbooks or recipe cards.

Where did you get the last 5 new recipes you cooked?

If the answer is not cookbooks, get rid of them.

I got ride of half mine recently. I kept all the Cook's Illustrated ones, all my Jamie Oliver ones, some really good baking ones and sentimental ones. I could never get rid of them all.

What if you went through your cookbooks one last time to see if there is anything you want to cook from there.  Make a PDF of it (use an app from your phone) and then you could print it off and add to your binder/loose leaf book.

I have a few cookbooks and hardly use any recipes from them, maybe one or two per book.  Freeing up space sounds wonderful.

I lost mine to basement flooding and found allrecipes because of it. I find all I need.

I got rid of most of mine, except for my Pioneer Woman ones and some church ones.. otherwise I have a binder of my favorites. Otherwise I usually pull from the internet.