Nobody wants to read a manual. Most of them are written by people with decidedly odd senses of humor since they seem to skip over a small detail which makes most processes impossible to complete. It’s kind of like cooking recipes which demand that you have a tablespoon of port wine at home. Simply annoying.
My favorite kind of manuals are the ones which spend an enormous amount of space describing the blatantly obvious such as “this is the screen” or “plug in the electricity” or “insert batteries” but then when it gets to the stuff which is specific (and complex) for the new machine the instructions get very vague.