Following up last week’s question about reading writing/grammar guides, this week, we’re expanding the question….
Scenario: You’ve just brought 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?
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I love getting gadgets and part of the fun is reading all about it. It delays the gratification of the new gadget so I can enjoy the newness longer! If it is a complicated gadget I’ve learned the hard way I had better read the manual.
Anytime I’m interested in a subject I love to go to the library and checkout a dozen books on the subject. I like to read different opinions and ideas. The problem with that strategy–sometimes I spend so much time reading and researching I never get to the new project.
What about you? Do you read the manuals or jump right into the action?
I’m glad that it is not just me! I too often spend far too much time reading and researching a project rather than actually just getting on with it!
Well, where projects are concerned I’m definitely with you. The planning is more than half the fun!
Dot: I spent months thinking about and researching blogs before I finally decided if I was ever going to do it I had to plunge ahead! Talk about taking too much time!
Ann: I do have fun planning, but I sometimes carry it much too far!
One thing I just thought about. Regarding delaying the newness when I was still living with my husband if he bought a new gadget I would read rich for the manual. I wanted to be a part of this new thing and I knew he wasn’t going to let me get my hands on the devise itself.
you sound like the ideal library patron!
I have a wonderful library which I visit at least once a week. I’ve regularly had 50 or more books checked out at once!