Following up last week’s question about reading writing/grammar guides, this week, we’re expanding the question….Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not?
Do you ever read manuals?
How-to books?
Self-help guides?
Anything at all?
I guess it partly depends on what you consider a "manual" -- if it means the pictures of how to hook up something with a lot of wires or how to assemble a bookcase, then yes. But if it means the detailed book that comes with stuff, generally no, unless something goes wrong (although I might skim the parts of how to program something, such as when I got my Sirius radio receiver).
I don't really go in for how-to books. I have a couple of gardening books but I've never cracked them. As for self-help guides, I've read a couple of financial ones, but most others I find too banal.
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Most of us have the same feelings on this one.
I agree! Not my thing. Especially self-help books!
As a side note, I really wish I could find the manual on my car stereo. I still can't change the time on it!!
Steph, have you tried looking for the manual on the company's website? I've had to do that many a time when the hardcopy has been lost/thrown out.
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