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# Forty listings, revisited
- URL: https://freelance-desk.peachfin.site/forty-listings-revisited/
- Published: 2026-06-02T14:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-12T21:35:18.000Z
- Description: What changes in a guidebook chapter in three years, and why a phone call is not enough to update it.
- Author: Clara Weiss
- Tags: Guidebooks, #Import 2026-10-13 14:19

Updating a guidebook chapter sounds like checking opening hours. It is mostly walking.

In the last chapter I updated, eleven of forty listings had closed, moved or changed hands. Three had changed so much that the old description was wrong in every sentence but the address. A phone call would have confirmed the hours of all three.

> A phone call would have confirmed the hours of all three.

So I visit every listing, eat or buy something, and rewrite the entry from what I saw. It takes longer than editors expect, and it is the only way the chapter is still right when the reader arrives.