More and more manuals are online rather than printing nowadays. i keep wondering about the poor souls that don't have computer!!! (yes, there are a few) My other thought is that the manual for some of the items I've bought lately are so darned lame that it's almost worthless to have them!!! I was into tech-writing for a while and I see SO many wrong things with manuals. Some make you wonder if they ever went over their instructions to see if THAT works!!!!