Everyone has their favourite guidebook and the one you choose depends on your approach to the Camino. If you are walking for religious purposes you may choose a guidebook that emphasises the relics, churches and chapels, monasteries and pilgrims' mass times on the Way.
If your focus is on architecture, or history or food, there are guidebooks that concentrate on those aspects. When you have decided from which point you are going to walk, and how many days you have available to walk the Camino, you will find that some guidebooks give the route in a certain number of stages or stops -- 30 days, 40 days, 50 days. These will indicate or suggest where to stop and recommend the refuges and other pertinent information at those stops and gives a detailed route map for each of the stages.
The guidebook that I used was Camino de Santiago by Cordula Rabe, a Rother Walking Guide, The Way of St James from the Pyrenees to Santiago in 41 stages. Most importantly, it is small book (fits easily into a trouser pocket) and it is light (weight is very important!) and the pages are minimally laminated which protects them (to a degree) from rain and damp.
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