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Hi I want to buy a travel guide book about California. I saw some lonely planet guides but I don't know if it is the best. For example for California there 4 Lonely Planet guides:

  • California (Regional Guide)
  • Coastal California (Regional Guide)
  • Lonely Planet Discover California
  • Los Angeles San Diego & Southern California

I will spend two weeks going from Los Angeles to San Francisco then to Las Vegas. I am a software engineer and I am more interested in the cities than in the landscapes.

Which guide do you recommend? Do you recommend Lonely Planet? Are there others guides better than Lonely Planet?

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Hi McSas. It seems you might not be aware that Stack Exchange was set up specifically for objective questions with one right answer to make it different to sites like forums where people can share subjective opinions. I'm afraid recommendations fall into the category of subjective opinion. We all might prefer different brands of guidebooks. In the meantime why not check out the free online guidebooks Wikivoyage and Wikitravel? – hippietrail Nov 18 '12 at 4:11
Hi McSas. I think your question can remain open or be re-opened if you improve it by being more specific. As it stands, there is no objective answer, but I think if you state more precisely exactly what you are looking for it would fit. For example, what do you mean by best? Detailed descriptions? Covering many places? Having received high reviews in a particular place? Those are all more objective properties. If you edit your question accordingly, I think it will fit better. – gerrit Nov 18 '12 at 10:14

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