RE: Post-holiday reality: They don't need our stinkin' manuals??

["David Berg" <dberg -at- dmpnet -dot- com>]

> 1) Oftentimes, people learn more completely if they figure it out for
> themselves. Certainly, with gifts, there is usually no need to get up and
> running right away. After tripping over the new gift and stumbling through
> the features, a later reading of any manual might yield insights lost by a
> newbie who first thumbs through the book having no actual experience with
> the equipment that is documented.
>
> 2) My wife used the book that came with her Olympus 35mm camera as a
> tutorial and performed the steps as she read them.

Manuals are also great for those wobbly table legs...

(Sorry, I couldn't help myself)

David

P.S. Reminder, only 4 more days till the new millennium!


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