On reading manuals
I love reading manuals. But before you tag me a freak, allow me to explain. A manual isn’t just a manual. Perhaps, right now, you are flipping through a manual without knowing it.
Manuals like dictionaries and grammar references are lower level manuals. Higher level manuals include relationship guides and stuff on the lines of How to be successful. Higher level manuals define rules as well as enumerating them for easy use and application.