Great new specialty guidebook for London (DK Eyewitness)

Question for you. On Amazon it shows it as a hardcover book. Is it really hardcover or is it the very stiff softcover like their other guides?

I do enjoy DK books, but they're so heavy! Perhaps better for trip prep?

It is available on Kindle, if you want to save weight. I had a credit with Amazon for a digital purchase, so it was only $6.99.

Or get the paper copy and make copies of the pages you need.

I've used the DK guides for Mexico and South Africa and enjoyed reading them. They're colorful and good for an overall description of regions and attractions but don't give you the lodging, restaurants, and how to details you can find in a Rick Steves guide. Perhaps RS should expand his coverage (i.e. Rick Steves' Africa)?

Nancy, our library copy is hard cover. That's a topic close to my heart now, coz I'm about to publish my second POD memoir and the company under consideration doesn't do hard cover.
Seriously, this London book is a winner. For example, there were at least an additional half-dozen lesser-known Farmers Markets listed, ones in the greater London area. Never heard of them.
Must add that the coverage sometimes leans to a younger hipster audience, but there is much else.
I am done. the city

KBK, given its theme, this book has no lodgings listed, a fact that I'd not noticed til your mention of it!
One omission that comes to mind, something that locals surely utilize is bodywork. London offers everything from trad Swedish massage to shiatsu to ayurvedic to reflexology to Thai and more. Yet not a single mention of that.
But that is a mere quibble. This book is worthy.
I am done. the touch

This was one of the best guidebooks that I came across this year, after combing through dozens of London-related ones at our downtown Reference Library. I also checked out the city's slightly-smaller such library, in a suburb, to make the survey complete. We need more books like this one, written by locals, not foreign travel writers whose familiarity is limited to a handful of visits that somehow becomes represented as 'vast expertise'.

I am done. the pages

Thanks for the head's up. We love the Eyewitness guides and this one will serve us well in preparation for an upcoming trip next June.

Just discovered that this one is part of a new DK Eyewitness six-book series: London, Paris, NY, Tokyo, Dublin and San Francisco.
Next month, they'll release their 7th book in that series: Shnrelb, the capitol of Travelvania.
I am done. the end