I have 5 Lonely Planets and 1 Rough Guide.
I used to have around 30 guide books, but I gave some away.
Reply to this Similar number to you Mel - plus a few specialist ones on certain areas. Unfortunately my books are scattered world wide.
I must have owned about 30 and swapped out on the road though.
Reply to this Oh, I forgot to count my blue list Lonely Planet book. That makes 6 Lonely Planets in my posession at the moment.
Reply to this Only 4 here currently :-)
A couple I'll always keep (countries I know I'll return to), but the others I've inherited or swapped at hostels - and will probably trade/give away.
Reply to this 21 LP's, one rough guide and one travel guidebook from my parents time in 1968 called Golden Guides... I have that one because I find it interesting to see what they wrote about in those days... And they have some countries in it that don't exist anymore (S. Vietnam for instance and Portuguese Timor, which still exists of course but not as a colony)... I only gave one LP away, that was my China one back in 1993... Since that time I like to keep my old LP's for memories sake, I always write things in them and so on...
Reply to this At the moment I have none although I have two chapters from different Lonely Planet Guides as PDF files on my netbook computer which I downloaded from the Lonely Planet site. I must have owned dozens over the years but I have got into the habit now of only downloading chapters from the books when I need them. It keeps the weight down in my backpack although I admit it isn't as easy to read a guidebook on my computer as it is to read a paper book.
Reply to this I'm about to move house so mine are all packed away and can't be exactly counted, but there were enough to fill a box on their own! I can't bring myself to throw any, just in case I want to go back somewhere one day - although they'll probably be way too out of date by then. I also borrow loads from the library all the time to stop me buying every title ever published!
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