Poll: What do you do with the instruction manual?

[Sixties Spidey]

You're walking home from your game retailer with a new game in hand. You tear open the cellophane and open up the case, the smell of a freshly pressed disc filling the air. You look the left, and notice the instruction manual. What do you do with it?

Do you keep and read the manual? Or just keep it for the sake of keeping it. OR do you just throw the thing away, relying on the in-game tutorials?

Personally I keep and read them. Some of the manuals fit the game's theme very well, and look pretty cool. Resistance 2's instruction manual comes to mind. That 50's esque manual showing the PS3's functions is very amusing.

So what do you do with it?

 

[Cherry Cola]

I keep it so I can sell the game for more money after I'm done with it.

Simple as that.

 

[sephiroth1991]

I leave it to rot inside the case, only look at it if it has a character bio

 

[De Ronneman]

I keep it for the sake of keeping.

Why else is there a tutorial level? I'm allready bored out of my mind halfway of those...

EDIT: I liked this reason too:

I leave it to rot inside the case, only look at it if it has a character bio

 

[MurderousToaster]

I read it, then keep it. No sense in throwing it away.

 

[Pimppeter2]

I sniff it

Shuddup, you know you do too!

 

[Treefingers]

I make out with mine a little bit.

 

[Arkhangelsk]

I keep it, but I never touch it. I don't need a stupid manual!

 

[Hazy]

I keep it on hand if there's something, abnormal or otherwise, in the game that I need to read up on.

I don't just read them for the sake of reading them, though. Unless some time has actually gone into making it presentable and chock full of information.

 

[Sassafrass]

I sniff it

Shuddup, you know you do too!

Yes, yes I do and I continue to do so with Bioshock 2's manual.
It smells what I think Rapture would smell like. Old and musty. I love it!

 

[Jesus Phish]

I usually read it perodically while sitting on the toliet. Game manuals dont really have that much in them I'm interested in anymore. It use'd to be alot cooler when they were more canon to the game, having backstories or being "training manuals" written as if you were actually in the game.

Now theyre usually just "this is where you buy ammo" "this is the loading screen.

 

[Rauten]

I keep it, then read it when I have to take a dump, then keep it just for the sake of it.

 

[Space Cowgirl]

I usually just keep it on hand for the character bios and maybe if I need to refer to something.

 

[Sieni]

I keep the manuals, even I never read them. Pretty much all the basic FPS and RPG games have the same buttons or they're explained in-game.

 

[Red Pawn]

Glaze through it, making sure there's nothing I've missed from the dozen reviews that're already out on The Escapist (I'm very late to buying games - I'm still playing Fallout 3), then breathe in the embarrassingly glorious newly-published smell of it before tossing it in the bin.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

I keep it. I'm currently filling up my whole wall with game books. I have half of my wall left. its looking awesome

 

[Altorin]

read it in the john

why would you throw it away?

If theres one thing you can do to hurt resale value, it's throwing the instruction book away. And if you're not interested in selling, there's always just, you know, value. It even has a place in the box. You're not putting it anywhere inconvenient.

 

[Kagim]

I read them on the bus ride home from the store. After that i rarely ever touch it unless i put a game down for a long time and want to remember how to do certain things.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

I love instruction manual's but I do miss the older, thicker ones which had a bit of the story in them. I mean even though I know how to play the game from experience with other games I'll find myself reading through the manual. And you will never find me throwing one out. That...will...never...happen!