Travel guide publishers should break out and separate all the different country guides they have (long, condensed and specific theme versions). Then, you could select which ones you want and create your own customized travel guide.

For example, Lonely Planet has a Southeast Asia guide book. However, if you are just traveling to, say, Laos and Singapore and then stopping in Hong Kong on your way home, you should be able to pick those sections from the Southeast Asia book, plus add the Hong Kong travel guide. For some countries, you may be spending a lot of time and you may want the long version of the guide. For other places, you may just need the condensed version. Thus, you should be able to choose which versions to put together. They should also create different packaging for the books, so you can somehow snap them together into 1 book or take them apart.

This idea is easy to implement because all the content is already generated. The only thing that would need to be changed is the packaging. They could choose to sell the individual pieces in bookstores as they do now, or simply make it available online.

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