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>Here's another reason for third-party manuals, and it's perfectly legit.
>My mother did temp work a couple of years ago. She was trained on several
>different WP packages, but didn't have them all at home. She bought several
>third-party books, as home study guides.
This is a good point. The software license at my workplace allows me to install
company software on my PC at home. Since there are limited copies of manuals
for most applications (sometimes only one), I have purchased various third
party manual for home use.
