The problem is that now alot of manufacturers no longer have hard copy manuals available. Everything is going completely digital. Nissan service manuals have been digital for several years now, its just a matter of time...
Having them in PDF is nice for searching and can print just the few pages you need. That is with a PC/laptop. Not so much on the phone.
Everything I have is old and manuals are available either new or used. I use both the manual and the internet when I need to know something. Manuals have all the needed specs and the internet can show disassembly/reassembly techniques. I will never buy a new boat again. Used older stuff can be had pretty cheap comparatively speaking. Part of the reason I have just a bare bones tin boat. Less to go wrong and keep up with. The Texas sun eats up most anything else in pretty short order.
Same here. It's so much easier to pick up a hard copy and thumb through.
I always try to keep backups of my backups across several storage options. Hard drives will fail, thumb drives go corrupt, dvds/CDS get scratch and become unreadable, and online storage can get expensive. But I use them all to keep backups. I've lost alot of stuff over the years to failed hard drives and computers that suddenly stop working.
