Instruction Booklets

2 Conversations

An incredible example of human inginuity. Often used to aid the construction of many items, Eg. Bookcases. Quite frequently though, they are unsuccessful, and this can cause the reader of this booklet to get very angry. Often the Instruction Booklet is thrown away in to some corner of the room (for this example : say under the couch), only to be later to be searched for a few hours later when the reader had attempted to make the item, only to find out that it shouldn't actually look like an oblong with two anteni sticking out.

They are not always used in the aid of construction though, they are also used to tell people how to use a said item, for example a computer game. Typically, though when using Instruction Booklets in association with computer games, they are rarely read until several hours after they had started playing the game, and this may only be because they needed some reading material while sitting on a lavatory.

They are usually made of paper, due to the diffculties people previously had in making them out of stone. When in association with computer programs, they become part of the software, as software is not only made up of the program code but is the sum of all the packaging as well, of which an instruction booklet in this instance would be. This in turn causes great confusion in computing related exam questions, which again causes the reader to become very angry. It is some peoples belief that instruction booklets are the source of alot of the worlds distress.

Typically instruction booklets don't need to be purchased, as they are usually supplied with the item being purchased. This is assumed that the reader has actually purchased the said item and hasn't, for example, taken it off the back of a truck. Occasionally, it is found out that the person in charge of putting the instruction booklets in with the item is somewhat incompentant, and for what ever reason the person wanting to be the reader of an instruction booklet to go with his item, actually isn't, and finds an empty space in his hands where an instruction booklet should be. In this case it may be necesary to purchase an instruction booklet.


Bookmark on your Personal Space


Entry

A854859

Infinite Improbability Drive

Infinite Improbability Drive

Read a random Edited Entry


Written and Edited by

Disclaimer

h2g2 is created by h2g2's users, who are members of the public. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not those of the Not Panicking Ltd. Unlike Edited Entries, Entries have not been checked by an Editor. If you consider any Entry to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please register a complaint. For any other comments, please visit the Feedback page.

Write an Entry

"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been compiled and recompiled many times and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travellers and researchers."

Write an entry
Read more