Comments on: The death of the guidebook? http://blog.podcastalley.com/2006/01/09/the-observer-travel-the-hot-topic-the-death-of-the-guidebook/ Giving You the Best and Most Entertaining News in Podcasting Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:56:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: chris2x http://blog.podcastalley.com/2006/01/09/the-observer-travel-the-hot-topic-the-death-of-the-guidebook/comment-page-1/#comment-502 chris2x Sun, 29 Jan 2006 01:33:06 +0000 http://blog.podcastalley.com/?p=207#comment-502 As the host of a travel podcast (the Amateur Travaler) I like it when the press writes about the death of the guidebook but I don’t believe it.

1) A podcast does not make as good of reference material as a book does.
2) Some of us are visual learners not auditory learners.
3) How long would it take to read out loud all of the information in a Frommer’s or Fodor’s guidebook? That is how long it would take to listen to it.

I think that podcasts can be a wonderful source of travel ideas. I think they can be a great source of travel information. But the death of the guidebook? I doubt it.

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