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[Tim Brooks]

Stupid question - is the manual bound or spiral bound?

Not a stupid question at all. We are, and have been, looking at the options with regard to binding. I know we haven't decided for sure, but that decision has to be made next week.

[Caduceus]

Given my druthers (and roughly equal cost) I would request spiral bound as you can leave it open without stacking beer bottles on the corner-edges.

As we all know, beer bottles must be at least half full to keep a manual open and therefore a continual supply must be at hand. When they get below that critical point, a newly-opened beer bottle must replace the now less-than-half -full bottle.

Beer bottles sweat, especially near a computer that has been running for four or five days straight, which can ruin a good bound manual.

Spiral bound is the way.

[Ballbarian]

I must agree with Caduceus's observations and therefore second his endorsement of spiral bound.

[Gandalf Parker]

I think spiral works well for computer users. I understand that there are people who actually hold books open with their hands to read them. I really just cant picture myself doing that.

[Sindai]

Please please please spiral bound. It is so much nicer than regular binding. Lays open by itself, more resistant to wear, etc.

[PhilD]

How many pages was the Dom2 manual? My copy is still reasonably fine. However, I think this one looks to be much larger, and presumably contains much more reference material - which means heavier use, which means the type of binding on the Dom2 manual wouldn't last long. The case for spiral bound looks stronger and stronger.

AND, it might make it easier to justify the rather high price tag to potential buyers (don't look at me, I have it on preorder). A quality manual, both in content and physical presentation, is a real nice thing - and rather rare these days.

[Endoperez]

134 pages. I have used it lot more during the summer, as I always had to check what spells existed in Dom2 and what did they need, and my Dom2 manual suffered from it. It is slowly coming apart. It still holds together, but I'll have to re-glue about 50 pages back to it before long. They are going to come apart soon.