Ebooks make travel guide tricky
352953
Lonely planet guides are wonderful and this one met all of the requirements, when reading a travel guide I tend to want to dip in and out of the book which is really easy with a hard copy, better indexing would improve the usability of an Ebook travel guide. Obviously the weight of an Ebook is a total winner over a hard copy.
1008105
At long last, the ARRL has published an imminently usable format for this guide ... try holding either the pocket guide or the paperback version while trying to enter data into one of the radio programming apps. The next guide I'd like to see would include maps and a CD/DVD which has the data in spreadsheet formats so that trip programming could be made much easier. I also appreciate Amazon being a distribution channel for ARRL publications - like to consolidate my shopping into one stop with a fixed S/H charge (or no charge for 2-day). 73 de N6UA
1553883
This book has lots of great info about San Francisco. My only complaint is that unfortunately the maps provided in the kindle edition are horrible. I would skip this book and grab the Lonely Planet (kindle) guidebook.
1667382
I bought this book for the Kindle. The premise is very good in that different itineraries are provided for different kinds of travelers (kid-friendly, honeymoon etc).

However, because of the terribly formatting of the book for the Kindle, it is very hard to read as an ebook. Ebooks should be easily navigated with links because turning the book page by page is very tedious.
690738
As is often the case, these guides contain the minimum information but are clunky to use on an iPad.  The links work but often seem to require additional steps to move between sections.  The maps are too small to be of real use
3088034
This guide is great for the trails around my home area.  I kind of wished I ordered the paperback version though just because I don't really like e-books
2679515
I purchased this travel guide on my Android phone before traveling to Thailand so that I could have a guidebook on hand wherever I went. The idea was good but the application was not. The guide on Kindle was accessible like a novel - easy to read if you want to read page-by-page from beginning to end. But I wanted a more interactive guide. I wanted the links within the guide to lead to more information about each subject, but instead they just linked be back to the table of contents. I wished the search feature in the book was more browser search where it would bring up all results with the search item and I could click on any one of them. The book itself was probably a decent travel guide, but because I couldn't access it the ways that I needed, it was not useful to me during travel.

Ultimately, the next time I travel I will purchase a paper copy of a guidebook so that I can flip through it, mark things up, and find what I want when I want it. I had hoped an e-book would be more convenient while traveling, but it turned out to be more of a headache.
40050
Tons of info, but the print is so tight that I found it impossible to use on a recent trip.
395165
Very useful, but learning to navigate un kindle takes time.
4836542
Rick Steves is one of the best guides to Europe, as usual. However, portions of the Kindle version of Pocket Vienna are unreadable. For example, recommended restaurants run into each other with no paragraph, formatting, or sentence breaks. You cannot tell where the name of the restaurant ends and its address begins. Restaurants in the paperback are keyed to a map, but when you jump to the map in the Kindle there is no key to the numbers on the map! There seems to be a table meant to serve this purpose, but it is garbled and cut off on the right margin. Problems like this crop up throughout.
232355
Kindle edition has lousy navigation. A glossary should not bother with an electronic copy unless you provide jump links to all the cross references, table of contents, indices and have a much better way of looking up a term and getting its main occurrence instead of mixing that with each and every mention of the term in the book. I would recommend the print version instead but I'd rather have a good electronic edition too. I am not criticizing the content; I liked what I saw of the print edition earlier tonight. But the format is part of what I am buying with a book and this kindle version is hard to find anything in without paging one page at a time.
4483663
Very nice guide,  but nothing you couldn't find off the Internet. Pages are warped that is why I gave the three stars,  and the long delay. As you can see in the photo the wavieness of the pages. This is how the book was when I recived it.
4494651
The Kindle version is lighter but not quite as user friendly as the book itself. We also have the Italy guide. Both are great; curiously Bordeaux is not covered in the France guidebook.
1586419
Impossible to navigate. This is the type of book one wants to thumb through when looking for a restaurant, etc.  Not convenient to have to page through the whole book to find the info you need.  Guide books are MUCH better in print.
2335334
I have used many Lonely Planets before, but never on a kindle. They are usually good read and also provide instant help when you feel lost on the streets. The electronic version, however, is not easy to navigate, specially a bulky item like this. I gave up on it after having to flick through too many pages to what I wanted.
2093103
I bought the Kindle edition of this book for our recent trip to Ireland, rather than carrying heavy travel books on this trip. I found it frustrating to use, although it seemed to contain the necessary information.

The most significant complaint I have is that there is no index, so finding information is difficult. I used it primarily in the evenings to read about the next day's sights, to be able to choose which of the sights to see in our limited time. The only way to find things was to use the Kindle search utility, and then, it often provided many entries, and it was tough to find the main entry, rather than a passing reference.

The table of contents is tiered, and if you don't know the main entry, you can't find the area you are looking for.

I did not read this book cover to cover - that isn't why I bought it. We had other books on Ireland we used to plan our trip from home. I intended this as an in-country reference book, and the organization and lack of an index made it less than ideal for this purpose.
784598
Disappointing access to maps which needed wifi and then had poor definition and couldn't be enlarged.  I found the maps in the Footsteps Travel Guide more helpful.  Amman is notorious for having different versions of street names and Google maps of Amman don't provide many street names anyway so more help from LP would have been good.  Although Lonely Planets says that many people speak English, I haven't found that to be the case with taxi drivers even less likely and most unable to relate to tourist maps.  Outside Amman the guide was interesting and helpful.