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28/12/14 10:02 Filed in: Travel
How to Choose Online Travel Books
Before you travel it’s definitely worthwhile selecting travel guides to help you get the most enjoyment and value out of your trip. Best of all, you are now no longer limited to traditional print books. My recommendation is that you first download samples from the ibook store with the blue label that says Made for iBooks.
Before you travel it’s definitely worthwhile selecting travel guides to help you get the most enjoyment and value out of your trip. Best of all, you are now no longer limited to traditional print books. My recommendation is that you first download samples from the ibook store with the blue label that says Made for iBooks.
This label tells you that this is not just another .pdf or Word document someone turned into an ePub file. Besides the capability to search, make notes, and highlight, a book made for iBooks has amazing features that bring stories, ideas, and information to life with vibrant HD photos, video clips, interactive diagrams, slide shows, and maps. You can read them on an iPad or on your Mac with the free iBooks app. Apple iBooks are visually stunning–especially in the ones with the “Made for iBooks” books. These books are like expensive a coffee-table books plus they have some interactive app. features.
Since travel guides cover somewhat different content and take a different approach, you’ll want to choose those with content bested suit to your needs. Of course you should choose guides that are easy to use, to search, and to make notes. There’s another bonus to ibook guides— you can now choose travel books that are different from the conventional guides, which tend to be mostly a listing of facts. Please note, I’m not suggesting that you ditch printed travel guides that provide useful information on hotels, transportation, restaurants and so on. Use the conventional travel guides to create an itinerary, make hotel and restaurant bookings, and figure out transportation routes.
In addition, choose a different guide that you will enjoy reading and helps you to absorb the feel of the place you’re going to visit. Select a guide that will succinctly and entertainingly reveal the essence of a place through its history and culture—through its art, architecture, food and wine—and through its geology and flora and fauna.
Yes, that’s a lot to ask, but we believe we’ve achieved it in The Passionate Traveler Series:
Volume 1 Eastern Caribbean
Volume 2 Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia
For comparison, I sampled the most popular travel ebooks at the Apple iBookstore put out by well-known publishers at:
http://www.popvortex.com/books/charts/travel-ebooks.php. Many of them are, for the most part, ebook versions of their print books and did not take full advantage of the vibrant HD photos, video clips, interactive diagrams, and slide shows.
For Information visit blog page TRAVEL
Have fun selecting your travel guides!
Bon Voyage,
Boris and Claire
Since travel guides cover somewhat different content and take a different approach, you’ll want to choose those with content bested suit to your needs. Of course you should choose guides that are easy to use, to search, and to make notes. There’s another bonus to ibook guides— you can now choose travel books that are different from the conventional guides, which tend to be mostly a listing of facts. Please note, I’m not suggesting that you ditch printed travel guides that provide useful information on hotels, transportation, restaurants and so on. Use the conventional travel guides to create an itinerary, make hotel and restaurant bookings, and figure out transportation routes.
In addition, choose a different guide that you will enjoy reading and helps you to absorb the feel of the place you’re going to visit. Select a guide that will succinctly and entertainingly reveal the essence of a place through its history and culture—through its art, architecture, food and wine—and through its geology and flora and fauna.
Yes, that’s a lot to ask, but we believe we’ve achieved it in The Passionate Traveler Series:
Volume 1 Eastern Caribbean
Volume 2 Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia
For comparison, I sampled the most popular travel ebooks at the Apple iBookstore put out by well-known publishers at:
http://www.popvortex.com/books/charts/travel-ebooks.php. Many of them are, for the most part, ebook versions of their print books and did not take full advantage of the vibrant HD photos, video clips, interactive diagrams, and slide shows.
For Information visit blog page TRAVEL
Have fun selecting your travel guides!
Bon Voyage,
Boris and Claire
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