Somebody Read a Doug Lansky Book

Andy, ever thought about carrying a Kindle or a Sony Reader. You can read everything there - books (purchased online, or downloaded or copied from friends), maps, word file etc. It's very hand and should work well for travel purposes. What do you think?

Gadget from has written 831 comments

Generally I consider my BlackBerry storm the answer to all my small problems because it has an internet data connection in 170 plus countries.

I use Mobi Reader or MobiPocket on my BlackBerry Storm to read books.
http://www.mobipocket.com

I use Gutenberg.org to get books, they are free.
http://www.gutenberg.org

I have five books on my BlackBerry.

I have about 300 PDF books on my computer, coming from all sorts of nefarious sources.

I can read books really easy, I just do not see that paying 8-15 Dollars is needed for entertainment books. I will not pay more than 3 dollars to read a book. I would pay more for a book that makes me learn how to make money.

I love to read, read many books, but I am not going to pay more than the 3 dollars per book prices for something I must dump or throw away.

Andy

Doug Lanksy's a friend of mine, and a great writer. Full disclosure: he's another Rough Guide author! He helps people do what you're doing, in a book called "First Time Around The World: A Rough Guide Special" (ISBN 9781843536611). Very useful, though you could probably give *him* a few tips. . .

I don't know if this e comes from one of his books, I think it may have been in the lecture he gave.

Happy travels,

Richard

Gadget from has written 831 comments

Hello Richard, (Roughguide Writer - Editor)

These two es as I read are from a lecture,
http://www.thedavidsonian.com/news/acclaimed-travel-writer-doug-lansky-challenges-get-lost-1.1880822

He said,
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he comes to see.”

Richard is the Rough Guide (Guidebook) editor of West Africa and also to Kenya. More or less he know a lot about Africa.
http://www.roughguides.com/website/travel/AuthorPage/author.aspx?authorID=149

He has made many comments on this Travel Journal when I am in either East or West Africa, and I call him a friend.

This e also points are why I get indignant readers and mean comments, the readers come as tourist to read what they came to read, I wrote as a traveler what I see, not what they wanted to read.

I have been to 85 countries, I am not in love with any of them, I like a few more than others, but have no loyalty to any, except maybe the USA. Which in my view, a person should love the country they live in...but to defend any and all aspects of the country is crazy. American are indeed fatter than other countries, why is debatable.

Thanks Richard.
I am think a lot about Liberia right now, but a trip from South Africa to Tanzania is also in my hopper.

Gadget from has written 831 comments

I found two links of his that are informative.

Note, to wanna be writers, he is use the second most prevalent form of monetization of travel.

First - Make money at home, go travel for six months, come back, do it again.
(Not a perpetual traveler.)

Second - Get free trips given to you and go write about them, sucking up all the way and write about it in a magazine, Most of the time this person is not traveling.
(Not really possible to be perpetual traveler, these people work in offices.)

Third - Write books, then spend time promoting the books. This is Doug in a way, I suspect he is also making money lecturing. He appears to have broken into the book writing or travel writing genre with the help of Roughguide, I am not sure, but I suspect he traveled and learned by being a Roughguide Guide writer first.
(He could be a perpetual traveler, however in reality he is probably working more than I would ever dream of..and traveling less than I would dream of... )

Fourth - Retirement Money (Can be perpetual traveler.)

Fifth - Make money from an Internet page, this is how I do it.
(Not really possible for the majority, they need to do the third, same as Doug.)

Here are a couple of links on the guy, his webpage.
http://www.douglansky.com/

And his video page:
http://www.youtube.com/user/douglansky