<story><title>Manualslib – Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals</title><url>https://www.manualslib.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ryandrake</author><text>This looks like a great resource. I buy a lot of used tools on Craigslist, and of course, nobody ever keeps the manuals. So it&amp;#x27;s always the same time-consuming task:&lt;p&gt;1. Go to the manufacturer&amp;#x27;s web site, if they still exist, and see if they have a manual there&lt;p&gt;2. Search Google for &amp;quot;MODEL# pdf&amp;quot;. Wade through pages of pond scum search engine spam and paid sites for a half hour. Apparently, enough people search for manuals to make this profitable.&lt;p&gt;3. Do some web research to find similar product model numbers (maybe 8029A manual would cover 8029B too?) and repeat 1-2 above.&lt;p&gt;4. Start searching through forums and other hard-to-index parts of the web.&lt;p&gt;5. Check torrent sites? (now I&amp;#x27;m getting desperate!)&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s crazy how tough it can be to find a user manual. In many cases, I end up finding one scanned by another end-user and posted online to be helpful. It&amp;#x27;s also a shame that 1&amp;#x2F;2 the comments here are about copyright. I can&amp;#x27;t see how taking a site like this down would in any way benefit a manufacturer whose manual is available. Unless the manufacturer is trying to make money selling their user manual, in which case to hell with that shitty company.</text></comment>
<story><title>Manualslib – Database of More Than 2.6M Manuals</title><url>https://www.manualslib.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Mister_Snuggles</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve started saving electronic copies of manuals, assembly instructions, etc for anything that I purchase.  If there&amp;#x27;s no electronic copy available, I&amp;#x27;ll scan the paper manual.  In all cases, I&amp;#x27;m putting the documents into an instance of Mayan EDMS[0].  Mayan also automatically does OCR on everything that comes in, so even if the PDFs are non-OCR&amp;#x27;d scans they&amp;#x27;re still searchable.&lt;p&gt;This is part of a larger project to significantly reduce the amount of paper that I&amp;#x27;m keeping, which is why I&amp;#x27;m using a document management system as opposed to a Dropbox folder.  My goal is to divide the mounds of paper into things I need to keep for a long time (e.g., tax documents), and things that I can shred after a year (e.g., bills, receipts, etc).  In all cases, I want the documents searchable and backed up.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mayan-edms.org&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;mayan-edms.org&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>