Amps Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 The boot of my car has two boxes of manuals that take up too much space. In this modern age do most still have paper manuals? If not do you keep them on a laptop or is there a better device? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whistle Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Laptop all the way... A good few on the iphone and loads on our cloud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fozzies Posted December 5, 2011 Share Posted December 5, 2011 Paper manuals for new stuff, t'internet for known quantities.sites like this, and manufacturers websites are invaluable to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9651 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Got box files on my van, Scantonic, Menvier, ADE, Galaxy and another for random Texe/gardtec stuff........ I do carry a USB, and slowly transferring lots to it, laptops and phones are OK, but a PITA on site I find (especially on some of the odd iffy sites we do) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
breff Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 16gb memory card in my phone with approx 5000 manuals, usb hd in van, loads of paper manuals in box in back of van. Phone gets used the most mainly for little things, can also be used as a drive on the laptop if necessary by usb lead. The opinions I express are mine and are usually correct! (Except when I'm wrong)(which I'm not) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sixwheeledbeast Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Starting to built an "Engineers Manual" folder on my smartphone. If it's on my phone in PDF, i've I keep the paper copy at home. If not on my phone it should be under the passenger's seat in the van. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9651 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 16gb memory card in my phone with approx 5000 manuals, usb hd in van, loads of paper manuals in box in back of van. Phone gets used the most mainly for little things, can also be used as a drive on the laptop if necessary by usb lead. Wish i could use a card in my phone (W7). Uploading from usb to skydrive now, then can view from phone. Its a 'task' uploading them, time consuming Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miaren Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Majority on the Android phone, but do need to constantly update the list for every possibility.. Still carry paper But most importantly, still have the Tech support no.s ( god bless 'em) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antinode Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Prefer paper to be honest. I like being able to just flick through the pages. I had to re-program a Veritas R8 about 4 months ago using my iPhone and google. Although it got me there eventually, it took forever scrolling and zooming in/out. Could have done it with a paper manual (which I now have a copy of!) in a tenth of the time. Trade Member Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9651 Posted December 6, 2011 Share Posted December 6, 2011 Id go with that in the main Phone was handy the other day mind, had to crash and reprog a Ts 500, no paper manual for it, and never done one before. Found it in here whilst at site, 10 mins later it was done, nice and easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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