As the old saying goes: Do you need an instruction manual for Facebook or Amazon.com (Nasdaq:AMZN)?

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Her latest book, Toddlers: An Instruction Manual, has been crafted with the close help of a traditional publisher.

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Several studies have come out where people are saying, we don't want to be able to use an instruction manual.

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You don't really want to be able to look at an instruction manual to be able to use a product.

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The tile interface is plenty intuitive, so you probably won't need an instruction manual when you're setting up the phone.

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The sunglasses came with an instruction manual.

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Bill wanted more meat in our dinner menus, apparently, and had brought me an instruction manual -- 600 pages long, I couldn't help noticing, and with the same sort of heft as the sirloin pork roast in the picture.

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Though doctors are revered in Japan, a stream of scandals, including a recent one in which three inexperienced physicians were charged with killing a patient by performing complex surgery with the help of an instruction manual, have created public distrust.

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