You might think of instruction manuals as too dry and too technical, a necessary evil that’s in the way of what you really want to interact with: the purchase itself. But instruction manuals don’t ...

When you last bought a new electronic device did you look at the instruction manual? If your answer is a resounding “no”, then you are not alone. Studies show that many of us don’t bother to read the ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Just the other day, I had to read the manual. I’d borrowed my neighbor’s hammer drill to make some holes in a masonry wall, and I didn’t know how to swap the ...

Video game manuals provided essential information beyond just instructions, including lore tidbits, helpful tips, and original artwork. Modern games have replaced instruction manuals with tutorials, ...

Since becoming a father a few months ago, I've been nursing a grudge against something tiny, seemingly inconsequential, and often discarded: instructional manuals. Parenthood requires a lot of ...

So I was browsing Pravda, as I do from time to time, when I stumbled upon this fascinating story. It seems that women are far more likely to read a gadget’s instruction manual than men. It’s the old, ...

Last year, the NES Classic's launch was met with something that I argued was more interesting and valuable in the game-preservation sense: a gigantic dump of NES and Famicom instruction manuals, all ...

As it did with the NES Classic, Nintendo has posted the manuals for all its SNES Classic games online. With the exception of the Star Fox 2 manual, which has some interactive elements and interesting ...