e reader or tablet for guide books??
 

Hi folks. I was thinking of getting a kindle (or similar) to reduce the amount of paper being lugged round on my nxt trip. I was wondering how usefull the Lp/rough guide type guidebooks were on these things, mainly the city maps? Im wondering if a cheep tablet would work better? I like the battery life and simplicity of the kindles, dont need any kind of internet nonsense, but find the city maps in guidebooks usefull. Cheers. Karl.

I have used a cheap Kindle for this very purpose. My main gripes with the model I bought is I miss the colour in maps and photographs and it is not backlit (the bonus is longer battery life). Although books are bulky, you can not break them :biggrin3:

Kindles are great for carrying a stack of lonely planets - they are also just amazing bits to carry for downtime, if you enjoy a bit of a read.

TBH .. For maps and pdf's they aren't that great, but then you probably have a stand alone GPS or two that will have maps loaded that will do the job.

I find the kindles, although not waterproof can handle a bit of rain water. They are very light, quite robust with a long battery life.

I don't own a tablet at all, I find that I can do everything that I want to do on an iPhone, and for other duties a laptop.


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I hate using a Kindle for travel guides. Too much of a hassle looking something up, or looking at maps etc. Great for reading other books though

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We only travel with one smart phone (my husband) and one tablet (me) and that is enough. So I load guide books on my iPad.


Not ideal when walking around in towns though, if you need to consult the map in busy streets. But I usually do small paper drawings if I am worried (rarely).


The maps on the travel guides are often wrong or out of date.


So I rely on Google maps, map.me and for Central Asia/Russia the excellent Yandex, to find ATM, banks, hotels or anything really.


The tablet is better as you can then take a screen shot (picture) of the map so no need to have wifi when you need the map. So for me, it's tablet anytime!