![]() You can purchase chapters or entire books from within the app. The Inkling App is free in the iTunes App Store here: Inkling. Buy the whole book or just a chapter or two, with a gentle hint that you want to sample the food! If you know someone with an iPad who likes to cook, Pro Chef would make a great holiday present. Seeing feedback from others is also useful in understanding how best to prepare the recipes. Watching videos is extremely helpful in learning how to master a technique. Hauling the book around is easy as it resides on the iPad. Keeping it on the kitchen counter isn’t an issue. ![]() You learn about cuts of meat, methods of cooking and cooking terms in the book.īy using this book, it’s easy to see the value in having the Inkling book on the iPad. It’s also an instruction manual that teaches cooking techniques. Pro Chef is more than a cookbook with recipes. Pro Chef is 1239 pages as a physical textbook and reviews on Amazon warn against trying to leave it open as a cookbook on the kitchen counter. Inkling released Pro Chef last week in the iTunes App Store for $49.99 or $2.99 a chapter and gave me a copy of the book to test. ![]() MacInnis says, “It’s largely regarded as the Bible for American cuisine.” If all of these amazing features of Inkling textbooks make you wish you were back in school again, check out Inkling’s version of The Professional Chef textbook for The Culinary Institute of America. You never would have imagined, even a year ago, having a conversation inside a textbook with an expert like that.” Or they’re having another conversation with a doctor at a separate med school about the anatomy textbook. And they are designated by a special color so the student knows that they’re actually having a conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning author of this history book. “A number of our titles have the author or an authorized expert that lives in that book with the students. These books offer “both peer-to-peer collaboration among students and the interaction that the students get with the professor and with experts,” according to Mr. Inkling offers books in which professors have set up their own set of notes and highlights for the class so students can follow along. People purchase the content that they need and their access to the content is perpetual but it’s not transferable.” MacInnis explains, “Students don’t get upset because they’re paying less for the content to begin with. One downside to Inkling textbooks, as with all ebooks, is the inability to re-sell the books. If a professor isn’t going to cover every chapter in the textbook, you don’t need to buy those chapters. ![]() To help further manage costs, Inkling offers the ability to purchase chapters individually, usually for $2.99 each. Inkling books are generally less expensive than physical textbooks. ![]() I think the beauty of it is that it just magically keeps everybody in the world on the same page.” Nobody has to worry about numbers because everyone is always in sync. It’s always the latest and the greatest, even if you bought it two years ago. “We don’t want to be constrained by the linear structure of the book, we’d rather be building things that are hierarchical and exploratory. Ultimately, Inkling would like to replace traditional textbooks which would eliminate coordination issues. So when a professor instructs you to “Open your books to page 263 and view figure 2-A,” you can follow his direction exactly. Inkling textbooks have edition, page and figure numbers that correspond to physical textbooks. ![]()
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