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Declutter your bookshelf with User Manuals Online

By Adam Myers ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ Tags: Internet

Let me as you a simple question – what is the first thing you do with the user manual when you open a new purchased product? If you are like most, you fall into one of two possibilities. The user manual either goes directly into the trash or the user manual goes onto the bookshelf – where it likely is never looked at again. Me, I’m a bit of both types actually. If a product is of the nature where a manual may be handy I’ll keep it; otherwise it gets pitched. The end result is the same however, the manual is never used!

If you are one that has problems throwing user manuals out because of the off chance they may be needed Manuals Online might be just what you need. The User Manual Site is a user manual repository that hosts over 300,000 manuals in the pdf file format. While most vendors house their manuals on their own website, it generally is only for their recent products. Products that are just 5 years old likely aren’t found on the manufacturer’s website. That’s where having all the user manuals housed in a single searchable repository is golden.

The User Manual Site doesn’t have to be a single hit-and-run website either. With a registered account you are able to maintain your own personal repository of user manuals for just the products you own. Should the user manual be necessary in the future it can easily be referenced rather than having to search the growing manual repository. Not bad for a completely free service I’d say!