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4.0 out of 5 stars
Overall a good reorganization from the 13th edition, November 3, 2011
This review is from: India (Country Travel Guide) (Paperback)
I used the 14th Edition of Lonely Planet India to get around in India (of course) for four weeks in October 2011. Overall, I liked how LP reorganized and reordered the info in the book. I thought the manner in which they listed sights, hotels, and restaurants, etc. was better than their previous method, having used past LP's to travel elsewhere. I also found the information in the book to be accurate and agreed with most of their descriptions of hotels and places to eat.
The one point that I did not like in this edition was that LP seems to have lessened the geographic size of the maps in the book, and also eliminated some helpful maps that were in the 13th edition (e.g. various maps of the Darjeeling area). So instead of a map showing a larger portion of a city or several different areas of a city, you now get a map showing only the city center/one area but with more detail. In prior versions of the India guide, LP's maps covered larger and more diverse areas. Some people may like the extra detail of the smaller maps, but I personally liked the broader map coverage of past editions.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Kindle version /vs/ heavy hard copy book---is it worth it?, November 23, 2011
I am planning a 6 week trip to India and because I am a devoted Lonely Planet user, I purchased the Kindle version of Lonely Planet India. (I like to travel with Kindle instead of lots of heavy books.) After going in circles trying to do my pre-trip research on the Kindle version, I gave up and am now ordering the hard copy to "shlep" with me. I don't know if the versions are actually different or if it is the way I use a reference book. Will report back after I return.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Embarrassment to Lonely Planet, January 31, 2012
Lonely Planet is happy to highlight every limit of ebooks and take advantage of none of their strengths. This ebook is not worth buying.
The book is missing essential links like, well, lets start with the Table of Contents. In theory it is there, but the table of contents contains eight items most of which are useless (I am not kidding, half of the links are...picture of the cover, how to use this book, contact us, about the authors, etc.
Even within cities, the links are terrible. In a number of cases, they actually link to the wrong item. Sometimes it jumps to another city! Did any proofread it. Obviously not, they just wanted to make more money.
The book itself is ok. Coverage of the north is good, coverage of the south is extremely sparse. A random city in the north, say Udaipor, might have 20 hotels listed. A comparable city in the south might have three. Take the City of Ooty (Udhagamanadalam). It is a trekking town (The book reads, "Trekking is pretty much de rigueur in Ooty and the reason most travelers come here). And then they don't recommend any guides or places to go.
This is repeated all over the south.
The guide is also pretty out of date. Prices were two to four times the listed price.
Buy the print edition or buy something else, this ebook is not worth it.
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