What I miss about printed manuals

[TCD]

The illustrations in them

Some examples from the Paladin 2 manual:

[sokolovic]

Thanks to HOL for that. A really useful and significant ressources from there (amongst many others )

[TCD]

I think this one fits a Monday morning:

[Muzkat]

I also miss the smell.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Muzkat

I also miss the smell.

[Geordie-Jedi]

Printed manuals were (and still are) fantastic !

Much easier to look at a manual and check something if you're away from a monitor
or other display device.

As others have already said - The smell is amazing.

The newer manuals today are a very poor substitute for a proper manual

Especially where they essentially say - check out the PDF or online manual
give you a link to it, and have some pretty graphics.
Very dissapointing

[Minuous]

Originally Posted by Geordie-Jedi

Especially where they essentially say - check out the PDF or online manual
give you a link to it, and have some pretty graphics.

Even worse is when the manual for the hardware that came with your brand new machine is not actually among the 15 on the manufacturer's site. And even when you find the manual elsewhere it does not actually have the instructions for turning off the unwanted anti-features, they appear to be completely undocumented :-(

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by Muzkat

I also miss the smell.

I don't!

(Because they were toilet reading material).