rhondabrwn
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Joined: 9/29/2004 From: Snowflake, Arizona Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd Rhonda I've printed my manuals in the past, but as I've stated many, many times before, they are A4 clunky. I've tried sitting on the couch recently reading my massive Forge of Freedom and COTA manuals and I don't like it. They curl up at the edges, they get trashed...binders here there and everywhere. I cannot lie in my bed with a big folder, reading my latest game manual....just cannot do it. Besides....I like the smell of a new manual! Hmm... maybe you should buy a better grade of paper if they are "curling up at the edges" I spent part of my Christmas break printing up my FOF and StarShatter II manuals. I have them in a separate binders with an attractive cover and spine label that I created. I have tab dividers inserted for the different sections, including a "tips" section copied from the forums. I did the same for COG, including the copious supplemental materials that are available in the COG forum. I even printed out my "Campaigns on the Danube" manual and put that into the same binder with COG (made it my Napoleonic binder). StarShatter I and II are in the same binder with separate tab dividers. They are also in COLOR... aren't the Matrix manuals going to be black and white only? Or maybe that will be the next complaint Now... if I buy a manual, I don't have that kind of flexibility to customize it to my needs. A copy in a binder will also lay flat. In addition, my binder copy is full size for my tired old eyes, not a tiny box sized manual which is common these days. I bought the StarCraft Game Chest out of a bargain bin and it included the Primus guide... hah... the reprinted guide is so small that I need reading glasses AND a magnifying glass to even read the darn thing! There are definitely advantages to the "print your own manual" school of thought that haven't been discussed here. Ah, can't help you with your need for a "new manual smell" though. Do different game manuals smell different? COG smells like cognac? TOAW smells like dirty socks? For Liberty has the hint of home baked gingerbread? Hey Matrix... how about a "scratch and sniff" option for an additional 99 cents?  
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