Do you read your aircraft manuals electronically via a PC, iPad or do you prefer to print them out? (the old school way)
If you print them how do you print them and make them up into a book?
I was thinking about printing paper copies of the entire collection, but is that just being too geeky lol? Would be interesting see if anyone else does the same.
A 10"-ish tablet works well for me.
Printing out an entire manual is doable for something like the Islander, but for an airliner, no way. Although I’m planning to print and laminate the checklists for some of the planes I regularly fly.
I’m probably more on the “extreme” side (I blame my OCD, or CDO 
).
I print the POH / Manual for each aircraft I fly, as well as the checklists and laminate them (the check lists).
For smaller GA aircraft, I print the checklist in a “booklet” that can be folded and fits on the kneeboard.
Also print out kneeboard sized flight information sheets for VATSIM.
As well as my flight plan as I enter everything in manually.
Lastly I keep a Lenovo Android tablet beside me as the “EFB” for charts, and anything else I need to look up.
Looks like an impressive collection you have, thanks for sharing. I was thinking about either printing myself into an A5 binder or just keeping them on an iPad. I guess the iPad route would be much cheaper. My inkjet printer is so slow and quite expensive on ink.
For sure if they had to be done at home that would be costly.
If you have friends / family that work in schools or large offices with laser jets.
Have a secretary friend so she can do all the work for free 
I had a few printed and bound but it wasn’t cheap. TBH it would have been cheaper to buy the printer ink, paper and a cheap spiral binder given that the printing company’s paper is the same as normal paper unless you’re willing spend a small fortune on thicker paper (far too expensive for me). I find it far easier to read on paper than trying to flick through the PDF on screen.
I used to print my manuals. Going way back to the original PSS Airbus, Level D 767, and PMDG aircraft when deep study aircraft were new to the genre. Now, I download way more manuals, POHs, and references to print and choose to:
As a matter of interest, where do you find or obtain the manuals?
Most payware planes come with them. Otherwise just google the models pilots operating handbook.
In my collection, I believe only the Trislander came with one. Of course, that’s not necessarily a representative sample.
The PMDG 737 used to come with the official POH back in the FSX days but no longer does.
I usually start at these locations, after which I google for POH and Flight Manual for the plane
Manual Index - American | Aircraft of World War II - WW2Aircraft.net Forums
I watch YouTube tutorials flown by real pilots and write my own aircraft manuals, checklists, and start-up procedures. And the flight routes.
This is my personal manual for the 737 and the Fenix:
https://www.amazon.de/-/en/dp/B07P8GTS38/?coliid=IKVLHN713E83L&colid=183XBM18NNPPR&psc=1&ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it
For charts of airports i often fly to or from, i print out charts. Checklists, i print them out and for manuals, i keep them on my tablet
Which I do, too, except for when I fly VR, which is most of the time now, so I load up the manual of the plane I’m flying, and I found an addon that I use that displays PDF’s in a window. Sorry, I’m at work, so I forget which addon that was. Licensing was weird for it, but it works.
I’ll read novels on my iPad. Technical manual for me need to be printed. If you’re in the USA, UPS Stores will print. I get them spiral bound. A typical B&W manual of 150 pages or so will run you about $30. If you want color, be prepared to pay, that’ll be close to $100. Office Max/Depot or Staples will probably do it also.
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