My review of Faxon book, 1967-1969 Dodge & Plymouth Body & Electrical Assembly Manual

DFX 340 Duster said

Faxon spends money to obtain original manuals and have them unbound and scanned. Then they have to print and bind a copy for sale. Therefore they include the watermark in order to have you buy the copied manual. They have printed original manuals for sale as well as some of them in digital form. It is a small business and should be compensated for their expenses.
They were kind enough to give me a tour of their warehouse when I drove there to pick up original shop manuals for my cars. They are good people.

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I understand that bringing these manuals to print involves time, effort and money. I even understand the watermark to an extent, especially in digital form because it’s so easy to share.

But if you lay out the cash for the printed copy, they shouldn’t literally ruin the manual you’re buying by putting 8 watermarks on every page over the top of the content you bought the manual for to begin with. Again, I understand some watermarks to protect their copyrights. But they’ve nearly made that manual unusable.

In my case, I don’t NEED that manual. But I was considering buying one, or possibly even a couple since I own a Duster, a Dart and a Challenger. I love the old engineering drawings. But if they look like the examples above, I won’t bother. Ruins the whole feel of the manual and drawings. And even makes them harder to use from a functional standpoint.