Bottom Line First:Given the reputation of Better Homes and Gardens, I had expected The biggest Book of Bread Machine Recipies to be the most complete in fact the Definitive Bread Machine book. My expectations were too grand.The Better Homes and Garden, Biggest Book of Bread Recipes is a good selection for the bread machine beginner. It has some good hints and a relatively basic selection. The fruited and desert type bread selection is pretty good, the whole grains disappointing. Overall I will be using this book enough to justify its addition to my library, but it is not the ultimate recipe book for which I had hoped.+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++There are some good recipes; however the selection tends towards the basic. Those I have selected have worked out well enough. The two best things I can say are that:1. Of the several Bread Machine recipe books I have, these recipes call for an amount of water/liquid that more nearly matches what I need to get a good smooth ball of bread dough. I find that this texture associates with the best rising and the fewest "door stop" bread bricks. For some reason, Bread machine books tell you little about what a given bread dough should look or feel like.2. The plastic spine binding looks cheap, but provides a flat, stay on the page cooking guide.I also like that there are two widely separated lists of measures. Having the two bread sizes on opposite sides of the page makes it harder to begin combining ingredients for one size and ending on the other.Once again a bead recipe book compromises the ability to read content in favor of having font colors and sizes that may look pretty. Ingredient lists alternate between a Navy Blue and Yellow (Gold?) ink. The Navy stand s out well, although given the size of the book a larger font would have been appreciated. Who ever thought any shade of Yellow would be easy to read? Has no one else had an instructor caution the class: "Do not use wild colors it makes your work hard to read and gives people headaches"?