Following up last week’s question about reading writing/grammar guides, this week, we’re expanding the question….
Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not?
Do you ever read manuals?
How-to books?
Self-help guides?
Anything at all?
Scenario: You’ve just bought some complicated gadget home . . . do you read the accompanying documentation? Or not?
Do you ever read manuals?
How-to books?
Self-help guides?
Anything at all?
I do read manuals but not cover to cover. I usually just read the needed parts and then keep the little booklets for my phone or camera which are referenced now and then.
As far as manual labor goes around here, that is mostly my husband's job. He is actually quite good at building and putting things together. This year he built a trellis to surround the front porch and it is beautiful. We are going to get a ceiling fan for the library and he will install that as well. He has also put in things like the garbage disposer and all the shelving in the library and and pantry. Yes, he definitely reads the how-to manual.
Self help books I have to say, not so much anymore. I would much rather read philosophy books that encourage me think on my own. I also bought a philosophy class from The Teaching Company and listen to a few lectures now and then.
4 comments:
I'll only read the needed parts too... anyway I find manuals boring, and sometimes they're just hard to understand. My husband is pretty good with putting things together too, and I'm so glad because without him, I wouldn't know what to do!
Melody - It is nice to let them do it. Manuals are not the easiest and definitely not the most interesting things to read!
Isn't The Teaching Company amazing? I personally like self help workbooks and journals because they gently prod you to think for yourself. I have learned that unless a book actually calls for me to do something I am not going to change.
I'm definitely a manual reader. I refer back to them as needed, but I like to be prepared the first time out of the gate with a new gadget or in putting something together.
I put most of the bookcases in the house together myself. I leave the more complicated stuff to my husband--but even he has trouble with that. I definitely didn't marry a fix-it man. Haha I personally would rather know how to do stuff like that myself. It comes in handy and that way I can be helpful to my husband if we work on a project together.
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