I have often found myself ignoring the smartphone while sightseeing. It can be frustrating to repeatedly open an app and navigate an unknown amount of content, often in an unfamiliar format. A book with a dog-eared page, meanwhile, offers instant gratification and gets a traveler back to sightseeing much more quickly.
28 October 2010
NY Times on travel apps vs. guidebooks: "trust books"
The New York Times reviews various guidebook iPhone/iPad apps and concludes that the dead-tree editions are still more useful:
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