No one plays to read a manual or memorize complex systems in Warcraft, but players engage enough to learn.

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When was the last time you read a manual to learn how to play a game on your smartphone?

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In place of an astronomy manual, you would read Copernicus.

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All you need is all new equipment -- that may or may not be clearly advertised -- connected with either HDMI or discrete analog cables, then an hour or so to read the manual, and you're all set.

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The Echo was disproportionately read by skilled manual workers and by the middle-aged and old.

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And that's becoming quite a challenge for a lot of consumers that want functionality, want some features, but, at the end of the day, want easy access and usability to be able to use a product that they buy without having to read an owners manual three and four times.

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The box also included an unusually beefy user manual and no fewer than five replacement "nibs" (read: stylus tips).

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On the plus side, the black-and-white liquid crystal display is crisp and easy to read, and the software so intuitive that reading the manual is more luxury than necessity.

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But there's no complete printed manual, only an electronic one that requires Adobe's Acrobat software to read, and which I found awkward to use.

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