What I miss about printed manuals

[freehand]

I remember reading "The Dark Wheel" when I finished I was ready for my space journey.
The wire framed GFX was filled by my imagination.

[TCD]

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[modrobert]

Originally Posted by Muzkat

I also miss the smell.

Hmm, not sure about printed manuals, but I vividly remember the smell of opening (removing the plastic) a new ten pack of SKC 5 1/4" floppy disks for the C64 (1541), some unique mix of chewing gum and roses!

[Cris1997XX]

I'm not talking about the Amiga specifically, but I really miss those old manuals inside the boxes of console games. They were great to pass the time, or during those bathroom sessions when I ran out of batteries for my Game Boy

[golem]

Another book/manual sniffer here. Ringbound manuals are great I agree and seem to last longer as there is no stress on the spine every time you flatten it. Digital hardly ever gets read but when you do need to find something it is easy to search.

[Pyromania]

Yes, sometimes manuals are awesome, E-ink readers sometimes help but few of them are color. That said color seems to be slowly creeping into more and more e-ink devices.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by golem

Another book/manual sniffer here.

Imagine being banned from bookstores and libraries because you just go there to sniff them. Perhaps there is some kind of Wes Anderson movie in there.

[Cris1997XX]

Originally Posted by gimbal

Imagine being banned from bookstores and libraries because you just go there to sniff them. Perhaps there is some kind of Wes Anderson movie in there.

Hey! We've got an addiction to sniffing books, what's so bad about that?

[Karlos]

Sniffing stuff is a long term memory trigger.

[TCD]

Do we need to move this to 'Kinky Amiga Stuff' now?

[Karlos]

I'm just saying, smell processing happens in a part of the brain strongly coupled to long term memory. Smells trigger deep memories and nostalgia.

Smelling some of the food being prepared at my kids primary school can take be back 40 years in an instant and I'm literally there, for a moment (specifically it's a gravy smell. I hope to God the rest of the food is better!)

[gimbal]

From book sniffing to food pr0n. I love you guys.

[Cris1997XX]

I love you too, gimbal (no homo though)

[TCD]

What is happening???

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by TCD

What is happening???

Just lean into the weird and go witn it. SNIFF ALL THE THINGS!

Disclaimer: Excluding cleaning products, products containing non-water based solvents and any biocidal products of any kind...

[Pyromania]

Don’t sniff the feet!

[TCD]

Originally Posted by Karlos

Just lean into the weird and go witn it. SNIFF ALL THE THINGS!

Or, just hear me out, you could just READ them. I mean manuals. I guess sniffing manuals is fine, but that's not their main function. You are actually supposed to absorb information from them. With your eyes.

[Karlos]

Originally Posted by TCD

Or, just hear me out, you could just READ them. I mean manuals. I guess sniffing manuals is fine, but that's not their main function. You are actually supposed to absorb information from them. With your eyes.

Read and sniff. That way you'll help create a strong long term memory of the text in your mind so that you don't need to check the manuals as often. You know, so that you can wrap them in something airtight to preserve that special aroma.

[gimbal]

Originally Posted by TCD

What is happening???

Something beautiful, just roll with it.

[TCD]

Infocom included scratch and sniff items with some of their games (mind you separate from the manual), so I guess there's a point about this olfactory discussion.