sharing of information... Alan. The difference between my book and my blog is that the contents of the book (save a couple of pages) are exclusive to the book and are put in a format (the pub crawls) that you don't see in my blog and I put it all together in one package. But that is a choice not a rule. There is no reason not to place the information in the other medium. It would be more useful to those with, say, smart phones. It would be a delight to have a digital virtual Max in my coat pocket as I stumbled around Prague. But by that reasoning, a book is a place to put data for sale because it is a medium that is more prone to sale. A reasonable theory but one that is not based on either the data or perhaps even the reader's needs. You are right in the last bit. However, there's something about publishing all that data together in a book. It gives you, the author, the chance to fine tune the material you write at the beginning based on what you write later, which, I believe, is specially important for the kind of stuff you aim to write. Besides, nowadays, books are available in a number of formats, so if you ever come to Prague, you can have a digital, virtual me in your coat pocket. Over the past 10 months and 110 post, I have logged 123 comments at drinkdrank