the friendly guidebook -

Today I hit the book store. I actually bought offline - haven't done that in a while. But it was good to browse through the different travel guides.

I got the James Rizzi New York guide - it's got his colourful paintings in it everywhere, which makes it look real nice and fun to read. Seems to give pretty extensive tips for different kinds of restaurants, clubs, shopping etc.

Additionally I got the Merian guidebook, which is cheaper and has got a detailed New York map printed over about 20 pages in the book, which I find more practical than one huge regular fold-out map.