"Life it too short to read the manual"

[pier4r]

The point with manuals is that people fail to recognize that they are reference work.

Sometimes you need to read through them, but often you can just pick the chapter you need.
Also many manuals are pretty instructive. Yesterday I checked better the manual of my washing machine (dated 2017), and to my surprise it describes even how to wash clothes for those that have no ideas. That is pretty neat.
Then one can end up also with poor manuals.

In general one reads manual when one cannot figure out how to achieve a certain result with a product, so if the product is intuitive or very similar to previous ones, it is not needed.
I never read a manual about lego constructions for example. That was a challenge!