HP Prime or HP 50g

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(07-12-2018 09:59 AM)Thomas Radtke Wrote:  

(07-12-2018 08:06 AM)cyrille de brébisson Wrote:  "My daughter (13 years old, she likes mathematics) didn't even look at her calculator's manual, she simply isn't interested."

Shows what the current state of user manual reading is in the world now :-(

That's because (1) most manuals are crap nowadays and (2) the full manuals aren't printed anymore. I only open a PDF if I can't help myself by googling around. The PDFs are usually generated from a source that targets the printer, not the monitor. I could cry PDF is not even ably to recognize double-sided pages, plus it contains hard line breaks making it impossible to convert it to something useful like epub.

[I'm so happy (and lucky) I got decent and printed manuals with my 35s and my 15C LE]

To sum it up: Do epub versions that render fine on desktop computers and mobile devices and people will start reading again. Or print that damn thing.

Epub version of manual would be fine if there were capable epub readers for such complicated layout.

I made many epub books (scanned printed versions, cleaning up epub books I bought). Epub readers I tried have no difficulties (mostly) with ordinary books, but with technical oriented books it is different thing (tables rendering and lists formatting are most prominent, some readers don't even render <br /> properly). Some readers are incredibly slow. I ended up with using FBReader which is very fast and knows most html tags and css properties, but it is still not ideal.

If I look at google play at most downloaded epub readers then I cannot imagine that hp prime manual readers would be happy.