Anyone else put their manuals back in the case backwards?

[Cornelius]

I find it a major PITA to get manuals out of the cases without dinging them up. I always have, back with jewel case games and now with the DVD cases. For jewel cases it was always the front cover that would catch on those ridges on the plastic. With the DVD cases, I have trouble getting the back cover up. They do have the advantage that I can just put them back in backwards, and if I need it back out I can just grab it by the spine. The same works for jewel games, but then your cover is upside down. :frustrated:

Am I the only one?

[fishsandwich]

Not on purpose.

[Simply Dave]

I do on a lot of my games.

DS, PS2, GC, PSP, Xbox...yes

PS1, Dreamcast, Tg16...no

[diskoboy]

I do it.

90% of the time, the manual comes loose of the clips, and the manuals aways get bent or torn.

But I don't do it for older CD games, where the manual doubles as the cover art.

[DefaultGen]

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[Sudo]

I usually don't touch my manuals.

Same. I tend to look at them once, when I first get the game, and never read them again afterwards.

[exit]

With my PS3 games, majority of the time they're just literally a flyer with very brief information on them, so I usually don't even look at them. I usually don't look at them anyway, it depends just depends on what I can figure out myself and what the game decides to tell me.

[spoon]

Never thought of this. Good idea though. Would be great for DS games. I find that those are the ones that seem to take the most abuse. Hell, my Castlevania PoR was all hacked up new.


I would only be able to do this on games where the manual does not also double as a cover though. it would look funny when pulled from the shelf.

[Cornelius]

I'm actually in the boat with people that don't touch the manuals to use them. However, I'm constantly upgrading since I often will buy lots with games I already have, so I have to compare to see what's in better condition, or swap manuals if one case is better. Otherwise it wouldn't really matter.

The major exception is a game that I've been anticipating and buy new. With those I like to open them up and read the manuals all the way through as a way to savor the experience. That is incredibly infrequent, though.

[The 1 2 P]

I read all my manuals and still keep them in mint condition. But I have gotten older Genesis games that had warped manuals, so I put those in backwards to balance them out.

[bcks007]

I always check through my manuals at least once, to make sure the manuals are in great shape on the inside. Look for writing, rips, smudges, etc. I buy alot of used ps2 games, i love the mint manuals, and hunt for spare manuals if a used copy isn't to my liking.

Also i have Wild Arms 2, for the ps1, the manual has about 6 blank pages. The blanks are not in a row. I got it from a person who bought it new, i'm the 2nd owner of this. I would consider that very rare and worth keeping for a factory messed up error in the manual. :)

[ThoughtBomb]

Wow, you think you're the only nutjob that puts his manuals in backwards, and bam, here's a thread about it. Weird! I do that with pretty much all of my PS2 games. I usually only look at them one time unless I revisit and forget the controls or a character's name or something. As for PSone, I store my games so that the jewel cases are facing away from the manuals so that they don't develop those 2 little bent notches on them from pressing against the plastic knobs/elevations.

[Xizer]

I just throw all of my manuals away.

[The 1 2 P]

I just throw all of my manuals away.

Well from now on give them to me instead of throwing them away. That way we'll be helping to save the environment...or something:angel:

[spoon]

I just throw all of my manuals away.

Kamino?

[hush]

i gotta admit there is nothing worse then finding that second hand game you been searching for and the manual is hacked
i tend to not consult my manuals at all only if its a must so most of mine are still mint and if not i search high and low for another copy of a game that has a better manual:D
and yes my wife thinks i am nuts

[rbudrick]

I put them in the regular way, but I take them out backwards (through the spine edge side). That way, I never worry about it.

-Rob

[emceelokey]

Good idea. If I ever take a manual out I'll defnitely put it in upside down and backwards. I hate gett ing the manuals caught and then creasing the back cover.

[kedawa]

I only flip them if they're thick.