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Old 11-08-2008, 08:27 PM   #1
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Lack of Travel Guides

One of the reasons I am excited about ebooks, is because of the great convenience of having different guides in one thin tablet while traveling to a destination.

Often, when we travel, we purchase several guides, like Lonely Planet, The Rough Guide, etc..

I found, that of the big ones, only the Lonely Planet publishes their stuff in ebook form (and not as epub,) as well as Frommers, but publishers like the Rough Guide have only a few, less useful titles available.

The reason I normally buy several guides, is that one can't find out, which guide is best suited to one's taste, until one is actually on location (even the same publisher often has writers with different tastes covering different regions.) For instance, I generally find LP useful, but often too eager to like everything, while Frommers is often geared to a different traveller than me.

Am I missing something, and is there a mother lode of travel guides for sale somewhere, that I have not found? Or is it just that the guide publishers have not figured out this ebook thing yet?
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