The kind you buy in a second hand store

When venturing off to foreign parts on holidays, and planning your own routes, accommodation, etc, guidebooks become invaluable. Unless you're on the way round the world, staying in the sort of hostels which operate unofficial exchanges as people swap countries, you have to pop down the shops and buy one yourself.

( Guide me, o Thou Great Redeemer )

So, a question to all guidebook-purchasing travellers:

[Poll #942323]

Those mentioned in the poll are the only ones I'm aware of as "known brands", but that may be my travelling ignorance. If anyone's got reasons for their choice, I'm curious to hear them.