Just the other day, I had to read the manual. I’d borrowed my neighbor’s hammer drill to make some holes in a masonry wall, and I didn’t know how to swap the bits. Fortunately, the drill’s carrying ...

Last year, Canadians bought more than 1.9 million copies of a book, issued by various publishers but all on exactly the same subject. And it’s likely only a tiny percentage ever cracked theirs open, ...