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Travel books
Do you use them at all? If you use them, do you just use them for big trips or do you use them for the area in which you live too? Have a favorite type?
I have them for all of the places we've lived and in the past never really used them, so they just sit on the shelves. For some reason I keep buying them even though I rarely use them. I bought one today for KL figuring that at the very least it will give me some ideas for day trips from the city. I really wanted to get one for Borneo as well but forced myself to put it back. I am allowing myself to go back and get it if and only if I end up using the KL book (which I'm reading now).
So, what about you guys?
Re: Travel books
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Well that was a crazy couple of years.
I used to get them for all my trips, but I'm less likely to now. When I got them I would get one with a lot of pictures (like the Eyewitness Guide by DK) and one with lots of info like Lonely Planet. The Lonely Planet books I've bought in the past have been great.
I think the last guide book I got was for my honeymoon in Scotland. I also downloaded a free Europe one for my kindle.
I almost always buy them/use them when I travel. I don't really have a favorite type, there are some aspects of Lonely Planet, Barefoot, and Frommers that I like, but they each have characteristics that I'm not a fan of as well.
We used the South India guide the first weekend that we were here, it was a good thing too, because the place that was highly recommended to visit by our friends was a dud. The book helped us quickly find somewhere else to go that was much better.
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I love travel books. I like the DK Eyewitness books the best for European cities, but I go for Lonely Planet if I need the detailed logistical advice to get around. So for Norway, I'm LP all the way. I actually own both books for Norway.
I'll buy a book if I'll be in a place long enough that I think it's warranted. If I'm just going to be somewhere for a day or two, I'll either print info from frommers.com or buy a Lonely Planet PDF chapter from their website.
I use them. I have huge ones for England, Scotland, and Italy. I've pretty much read all of the England one. It helps me decide where to go for weekend trips. I don't have a favorite, but the majority of my travel books are Fodor's. They are good IMO.
We always get them because our shelf of travel books makes me disproportionately happy. Then I never want to carry them around while we're walking so we don't use them as much as I'd like. I tend to do the Lonely Planet pick a chapter and load it onto my Kindle now.
Although I'm not planning on bringing my kindle to India so I will probably need some actual books!
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I used Lonely Planet when I was in Vietnam. I found it was good for planning weekend getaways, but the restaurants and some hotels info would be quickly outdated. (I'm actually mentioned in the credits of one).
I also used SEA on a Shoestring. More for getting ideas of where to go. Unless the newer versions are better, the one I had from about 1999 only had very basic info about each destination.
DH used to live or die by the Lonely Planet. Wherever he went. But the last two trips in Africa have shown us that LP is not all-knowing. We ended up in some terrible jams because of it (like driving over a totally unpaved, isolated mountain pass in our teeny little sedan).
So for any travels in Africa, I'd suggest Bradt guides. They seem to do the job well.