Are Travel Guides Better Suited To Print?

Despite the light-weight features of an eReader or the fact that your mobile phone/eReader might already be in your pocket, Associated Press writer Anick Jesdanun argues that print makes for a better travel guide than an eBook. On a 10 day trip to Germany, equipped with both a Kindle edition Lonely Planet guide and a print version, the write found the print version easier to use.

In a piece, entitled “Paper wins over e-book for this traveler,” Jesdanun argues that print beat out eBooks because they are easier to flip through and contain more detailed information.

Here is an excerpt from the piece: “Holding the paper version, I simply kept my thumb on one page and a finger on another to flip back and forth between the narrative and the deeper descriptions.