Manual Overdrive

The biggest pain in the rear is when you need an owner's manual and can never find one when it's been misplaced only to be further disappointed by the company you gave your money to by purchasing a product that they no longer supply a manual for or worse, charge for. I thought computers were supposed to be used to extend the time that information lives. This would be a global website that has an owner's manual, technical details and specifications all in one website for every and any product in the world. The website could be divided into two parts: a freebie area where end users can upload manuals not listed and share them and then a pay section where the official manuals for A)more complex items that require alot of space to store or B) involve sensitive information actually cost money but you sign up for a 3 year subscription fee. It would be nice to go to a centralized location that has information and the manual on every product ever made. The benefits to any business that offers a product would be that there is one easily navigable place that customers could go to for their manuals and the owner's manual website frees up the participating company websites for other content and maximizing their hosting/promotional options while lowering overhead bandwidth costs by surfers just browsing the manuals. This would have to be a voluntary effort on the part of manufacturers to centralize any and all present and past product manuals and imagine this would be the biggest hurdle.