LONELY PLANET’S PICK & MIX SYSTEM

Waste Not, Want Not

Ever dragged a continent-wide guidebook on a trip, only to use small sections of it in each of the countries you’re visiting or to ruin the entire volume by tearing out a few pages to take on the road? Never again. Now you can buy only the chapters you need from Lonely Planet’s acclaimed series of travel books. Most chapters cost between $2 and $4—even less if you buy several at once. Your purchases arrive electronically as PDFs. For extra green points, rather than print out the chapters (using recycled paper, of course), just download them onto your BlackBerry or iPhone or other electronic companion. Doing a grand tour of Eastern Europe? Instead of buying the entire, 988-page tome on the region, choose the chapters for the countries you’re visiting—Croatia, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, say. Long weekend in San Diego? Save $20 by downloading the city chapter instead of the whole California guide. Each chapter that you purchase may be downloaded up to five times, so you can store one digital copy at the office (for lunchtime daydreaming), another on your home computer (for weekend planning sessions), and one on your PDA (for the commute). Go to shop www.lonelyplanet.com to pick and mix the chapters for your next trip.