When Do You Read the Instructions?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday December 18, 2004 @10:51PM from the some-assembly-required dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "I originally submitted this as a poll, but the answers I'm guessing, were way too long. However, I would like to ask the crowd at Slashdot: When do you read the instructions?" "So when do you reach for that instruction booklet? Do you:

...research on the internet, in magazines and also pestering friends who own one, so you're an expert before buying said item?
...carefully read the box and all of the instructions even before unwrapping the protective plastic?
...study the instructions and the quickstart guide?
...refer to the instructions and study the quickstart guide?
...lose the instructions when throwing the packaging away, but study the quickstart guide hoping for the best?
...look at quickstart guide when it's not obvious how to turn it on?
...frantically search the instruction book after letting the 'magic smoke' out of your appliance hoping you'll find somewhere saying it's suppose to do that?
...after it's been smashed to pieces with a hammer?"

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