About the Gimoire/BoS article from Wyld Witch

[Lilith]

First off, I'd like everyone to know,that yes I am new to this FORUM, not to the Old Religion, to which I had given my sacred Oaths as a Priestess over 25 years ago.
That said, it is true that the Grimoire is essentially an archaic term for what is known as a Book of Shadows. But it should be known, especially to the so called "NeoWicca" crowd of Generation Y respectively, and/or the Silver Ravenwolf, Edain McCoy, Ann Moura, Anna Riva, (and I could go on and on, but I believe our fair Lady Lark has already written a rather impressive article of authors to avoid, in our opinions, that is priests and priestesses of the Old Ways, that have danced around the hemlock tree more than a few times over the decades...
Therefore, in summary, and as a Virgo Ascendant, hence I'm rather picky about semantics, it still should be known that a Grimoire is still associated as a book of 'black magic', and other Dark Arts, namely Ceremonial High Magick.
While I do not agree to such a label, when you say Grimoire, much like witch, it will conjure (no pun intended) images of such Dark Arts, even among the Pagan community at large, both cyber, and non cyber.

True, both BoS, and Grimoire are used for the same thing, especially so nowadays. I certainly do not discredit the author for such. I just feel that this should be said as well is all, if one is to have a more thorough understanding of such terms, as they ARE used interchangeably, and as such, one should know just what and where such a root of the word came from.
There. I'll get off my high horse now.
 
-Lilith-

[Zenon]

I thought a book of shadows and a grimoire were essentially different, in that grimoires were more like recipe / spell /ritual books, and a book of shadows was a personal book that could include recipes and spells, but also personal writings and many other things.  A grimoire can be acquired, there are many famous ones... now a book of shadows is of a more personal nature and there is only one copy of each.

I've never thought of a grimoire to be a tool of "black magic"... well that's my experience anyways.

[Labrys]

... grimoires were more like recipe / spell /ritual books, and a book of shadows was a personal book that could include recipes and spells, but also personal writings and many other things. 

That is pretty much how I think of them, myself.  I keep a tiny leather bound book for recipes of potions and such, but very rarely write a spell down.  All are one-time only with me.  And personal writings, rituals for holy days and the like, I keep in a different volume entirely.

[Brijrian]

I keep potions, recipes, spells, prayers, poems, Sabbat rituals, Esbat rituals, other rituals, and lore I've collected or compiled myself in my Book of Shadows (I call it my BoS-'boss').

I keep a "Book of Mirors" for dreams, personal writings, divinations, and general ranting (this is my BoM-'bomb'). Those are my go-to books. My BoS and my BoM

I've never called either a Grimoire, mostly because I'm not sure how to pronouce that properly!