[CIB-173RDABN]

The first thing I do when I get a thick instruction manual is grab a razor knife and slice out all the sections that aren’t in English. Turns a 1” thick manual into a 1/4” (or less) pamphlet.

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Another pet peeve is when one instruction book is for several different models and it is up to you to decide if the instructions are for the one you own or not. It is not always clear.

[DUMBGRUNT]

one instruction book is for several different models and it is up to you to decide if the instructions are for the one you own or not.

A special place in the lower depths of hell await the producers of multi model manuals!

[RipSawyer]

Another pet peeve is when one instruction book is for several different models and it is up to you to decide if the instructions are for the one you own or not. It is not always clear.
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I still have some tech manuals written back in the ‘50s and ‘60s for offset printing equipment I used to work on. Most of those old manuals are so good that a person who could read and follow instructions could probably have fixed a lot of problems on one of those old machines even if he had never seen one before. Modern tech manuals, by comparison, are like deciphering the Rosetta stone.