I read that you could Google it and find a forum on steam, but at this point steams forums are down. Is there another place to get a digital copy of the manual?

Likewise. I have just bought through steam. THre is no view manual option and its taken me around 30 min sto get here.

I dont mind making my own spreadsheets for soem stuff ... but when being asked to pick stuff for levelling up and i have no idea what im choosing it kind of svcks. I am having to google stuff and reading discussions about what to do that leads to spoilers. Having a manual of 'hee this is what we want you to know ebefore the game starts' erally helps. This seriously isn;t some emo complaint about not being welcomed or whatever. Lets go back in time to 1988 when electronic arts published bards tale 2 on the amstrad. It made someon really happy, their little - almost a6 manual in 180 dpi black and white - manual (of about 70 pages) contained tables of levels, skills weapons and lists of spells. It let you think about how you were goign to develop your party of 6 characters each with about 15 inventory slots.

Again you want another story? ... reading manuals whilst not being able to play the game yet is one of my great joys with a game. Its the whole opening the box experience - digitally that still matters (especially as i know it already exists in some form or other due to having to be sent to a printer anyway).

We need manual ... i dont think buying digitally shoudl in any way preclude it ... if anything we are cutting costs in all kinds of ways. One could argue we deserve more - but then i realise that publishing *is* distribution, marketing etc. Besides this is not a 'waah i desrve more' post. It's a request for a manual as I think it will greatly improve a lot of your clients gaming experience.

This is the first bethesda game i have had this issue with. Am a big fan but this is a really serious issue.
I was impressed I still had a wow moment in the game v early on.

Some thought ... and a huge jump in logic ... I would be willing to buy it figitally and have a boxed version come in post - I was a late decision (almost impulse) in buying.

Here's a link to the Steam manual:

http://cdn.steampowered.com/Manuals/72850/skyrim_gfw_manual-07.pdf?t=1321046245

legend you sir win however many internets you can fit on this here cheque

Thanks!

Thanks a ton I really appreciate it.

Its more a pamhplet than an manual.

Fallout 2, now THAT was a manual.

Yes, the manual for Skyrim is little more than a pamphlet. So sad. You are correct, too... Fallout 2 had an awesome manual! I'd forgotten all about that!
With regards to Skyrim, though, I'm glad I bought the strategy guide. It explains a lot of stuff that I feel should be in the manual. Remember Morrowind's manual? It wasn't huge, but at least it had all kinds of information in it, especially about birthsigns, different types of magic spells, etc. This Skyrim manual is just "bleah", in my opinion.

I know this is a silly question but can you set spells on hot keys ex 1-8?