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Them "New-Fangled" E-Reader things???
i dont no nothing about them, but it seems like for an RTW trip if i had many lonely planets loaded onto one it'd be a heckuva lot easier than haveing a stack of books in my pannier? how do they hold up on a ride, with vibrations and all? worth the money to buy one and load a stack of LP's on it? where can one buy many contry guides for cheap? if they make counterfiet ones itll put lots of kid vendors out of business on the streets of, say, Phenom Phenh, won't it?
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They are useful as a book reader, they are not useful for lonely planet type things where you need to look back, change pages, look ahead and they dont have maps.
You can pack them with books to read at your leisure, so they are useful
To tell the truth, the LP are not a very useful book for a biker, they do not have anything bike specific, I usually ignore them, the ones I have bought I have not opened more than twice, only because I was stuck in town for a while
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I agree with the above. They are great for novels and general reading materials but not for guide books were you want to be able to flick back and forth between pages. I tried it and it just didn't work.
Re durability we had an old sony e-reader which held up fine and a kindle. The kindle did get a crack across the screen but they swapped it under the warranty  . If you do take one make sure you have some kind of rotective casing. Treat is as you would say a GPS.
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not an e-reader input but an LP experience. Once we turned up at a hostel "recommended" by the famous LP.. it was shut.. so we waited for a couple of hours as a local guy said it opened at 6pm. Anyways, when it opened it turned out to be a homeless shelter and we weren't allowed in. It was in Bari.. oo what a hole that city was... (sorry if any Bari-ans are about)
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I concur on the fact that LP guides are sh!te in all respects and that pdf (digital) versions of the guides are a big PITA to read on a Kindle.
Ditto that Kindle-format novels are great on a Kindle.
Last summer, on my Central Asia/Mongolia trip, mine seem quited rugged to vibrations, but didn't seem to work any more after being submerged in a river for 10 minutes. Can't explain why!
Paper LP guides are however very useful when you have to park your bike in the mud when the sidestand is sinking into the quagmire.
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Kindle 3G
A not very well publicised feature of the 3G version of the kindle is that under "Experimental" there is a web browser.... and it works across the world without cost!
I use it when abroad to check Facebook [sad I know] and emails. You can reply by email, but if I need a better reply I know to hunt out some wi-fi and use my phone of netbook.
Oh, and you can read books also!
JOn
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