It's been interesting reading through everyone's replies I feel like I've definitely been influenced by the internet culture. I didn't grow up with the internet but it's been around during all of my work years, and it just became my go-to for everything, including recipes. Plus, I often need visual cues to understand if I'm going in the right direction or not, and not all cookbooks have images. And the way I organize my recipes is internet-dependant too: I keep a google sheet with the recipes I've tried and liked and the recipes I'd like to try,complete with links to the recipes online.
I'm still set on trying to use my cookbooks more, just because I don't like the thought of the books just laying there without getting any love from me. Just for curiosity, here are the cookbooks I currently own (the one that says "Portugal" was inherited from my maternal grandparents, it's a collection of cookbooks from the 20s and it came with them from Mozambique to Portugal):
I'm still set on trying to use my cookbooks more, just because I don't like the thought of the books just laying there without getting any love from me. Just for curiosity, here are the cookbooks I currently own (the one that says "Portugal" was inherited from my maternal grandparents, it's a collection of cookbooks from the 20s and it came with them from Mozambique to Portugal):