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Instruction/User Manuals

Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
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I seem to have acquired enough of these over the years, even though the equipment related to is often on some rubbish heap or is now reincarnated as something else, and I know there are repositories of such (but usually having to be paid for) but are there any free places providing such?
 
Daemon Sophic

Daemon Sophic

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perhaps I’m misreading your post, but you seem to be asking what to do with some spare booklets in your home.
In our state/county I would simply chuck them into the paper recycling bin. :shrug:
 
Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
Daemon Sophic said:
perhaps I’m misreading your post, but you seem to be asking what to do with some spare booklets in your home.
In our state/county I would simply chuck them into the paper recycling bin. :shrug:
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No. Not exactly. These things are useful to many who lack them, still having the relevant piece of kit, but are unable easily to fathom how they work. Since things are seemingly getting more complex than being simpler. I often have to refer back to some items that I don't use that much but where it is not obvious what one needs to do to achieve any particular thing. So, a need for keeping such things, as being helpful for others. I would donate them - if actually worth doing - to some site that made them free to others, and of course I do know that most such things are long gone into techno hell. But some poor soul might have a need for such.

As I mentioned, there are sites that will provide such - for a fee.
 
PoetPhilosopher

PoetPhilosopher

Veteran Member
Sure there aren't free sites where you can upload old manuals, which will benefit others, then you'll be able to discard them after uploading, saving you space?
 
Revoltingest

Revoltingest

Pragmatic Libertarian
Premium Member
Mock Turtle said:
No. Not exactly. These things are useful to many who lack them, still having the relevant piece of kit, but are unable easily to fathom how they work. Since things are seemingly getting more complex than being simpler. I often have to refer back to some items that I don't use that much but where it is not obvious what one needs to do to achieve any particular thing. So, a need for keeping such things, as being helpful for others. I would donate them - if actually worth doing - to some site that made them free to others, and of course I do know that most such things are long gone into techno hell. But some poor soul might have a need for such.

As I mentioned, there are sites that will provide such - for a fee.
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I buy & sell manuals on Ebay.
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
Mock Turtle said:
No. Not exactly. These things are useful to many who lack them, still having the relevant piece of kit, but are unable easily to fathom how they work. Since things are seemingly getting more complex than being simpler. I often have to refer back to some items that I don't use that much but where it is not obvious what one needs to do to achieve any particular thing. So, a need for keeping such things, as being helpful for others. I would donate them - if actually worth doing - to some site that made them free to others, and of course I do know that most such things are long gone into techno hell. But some poor soul might have a need for such.

As I mentioned, there are sites that will provide such - for a fee.
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Most of that stuff is on line, and free, these days. So you may as well toss them. The time it would take to identify the user manuals that were not free, and find the people who might need them, would be too excessive to bother with. Also, if your item is now on the trash heap, probably, so is theirs.
 
Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
KAT-KAT said:
Sure there aren't free sites where you can upload old manuals, which will benefit others, then you'll be able to discard them after uploading, saving you space?
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Well I was asking this. I don't get about much these days on all the various bits of the internet, and no doubt there are places that might be a bit loose with any legality. From a smallish search I only came across the more commercial ones on the internet and I thought there might be some free ones that might be better, so I was asking about this. Most of the stuff is useless and hardly anyone needs them but if a database aspires to completion then it should cater for all those hard to get instruction/user manuals.
 
Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
PureX said:
Most of that stuff is on line, and free, these days. So you may as well toss them. The time it would take to identify the user manuals that were not free, and find the people who might need them, would be too excessive to bother with. Also, if your item is now on the trash heap, probably, so is theirs.
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Any links for such? And all I was asking was, is there a site that has a free database of such things - all instruction/user manuals, not just certain types.
 
PureX

PureX

Veteran Member
Mock Turtle said:
Any links for such? And all I was asking was, is there a site that has a free database of such things - all instruction/user manuals, not just certain types.
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Probably no such site. I think you have to look up the specific item that you need the manual for on the manufacturer's site. And then hope they have a PDF available. Often they do.
 
Mock Turtle

Mock Turtle

Oh my, did I say that!
Premium Member
PureX said:
Probably no such site. I think you have to look up the specific item that you need the manual for on the manufacturer's site. And then hope they have a PDF available. Often they do.
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True, but many manufacturers have gone out of business so no doubt there are a number of orphans lurking about. But perhaps the interest isn't there for a lot of stuff anyway, what with modern technology taking over virtually all aspects. When I had much of my tech equipment one didn't need a manual since it was all knobs and switches - no delving through menu-driven options to find what one wanted - and now it's virtually all that way.
 
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