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In my experience full-fledged country guides from Lonely Planet are more thorough, detailed and informative. In the area of region-specific (say, Provence in France) and mini-pocket guides with pocket maps Frommer has much more presence and their guides are very good. I am as avid user of smartphones and tablets as any other HN user, but there are many places in the world where you certainly do not want to pull gadge…
> I am as avid user of smartphones and tablets as any other HN user, but there are many places in the world where you certainly do not want to pull gadgets out of the bag or pocket. Single-purpose travel PDAs for rent in such parts of the world might be of some use. Have them optimized for the travel guide function, and make them hard to jailbreak and susceptible to bricking when jailbreaking. It may be possible to m…
use a book.