The vernable travel guidebook company, Lonely Planet, is going to start letting you slice, dice and mashup it’s guidebooks so you can create customized books for exactly the info you want for your particular trip. No more carrying around your 2000-pound copy of SE Asia on a Shoestring! Well, not quite yet. So far, they’ve made South America, Central America, Mexico and the Caribbean available.
It’s a brilliant idea and a long time coming. When I go traveling, often, I would just head to the library and photocopy the sections I wanted so I didn’t have to lug the whole book around. And while I love libraries, it probably costs just as much with the copier charges as to just buy these.
How does it work? Well, all you have to do it head to their Pick and Mix page, find the chapters you want, download the PDF of each, staple them together and voila! Each chapter costs between $2-4 and they’ll throw in the “Planning Your Trip” chapter for free. Cool.
[via Intelligent Travel, photo The Wandering Angel]
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