Yeah, after reading your comments, I did some thinking about my per-day travel cost, and realized that by comparison, informaiton is very very cheap. I ended up getting all three Lonely Planet Europe amalgamations (Western, Eastern, and Scandanavia) and chopping out the chapters I need. I did however, speed-read the DK books for the countries I cared about first. The pictures do help orient me in terms of priorities for things to visit.