Originally Posted by waskillywabbit

I don't think you understand just how MANY pages the FSM contains....you would burn up a laminating machine...

When my wife saw my FSM when I took it out of the box she said "why did you buy a dictionary?"

About 3-4 inches thick...

Originally Posted by oilguy3

instead of downloading and printing has anyone tried to download it and burn to cd? Make your own digital copy and save a tree.

Originally Posted by waskillywabbit

I have both...but the tree is easier to work w/ when your hands are greasy and you are under the rig ya tree hugger.

Originally Posted by Lowlead

Hello from a newby .... I read this thread and thought I'd share a tip to make the downloading faster. Describing it will sound a lot more complicated than actually putting it to practice. It works with WinXP and Internet Explorer (I have no idea if it works for other OS's or browsers???), and it saved me a load of time over the open/save/close routine of trying to save each and every file. Here's the deal: IE stores a copy of every picture and document you open with your browser in your "Temporary Internet Files" folder(s) with the file's original extension. So all you need to do is delete all of the files (actually just the PDF's) from your "Temporary Internet Files" folder just before or after you log on to the Toyota Techinfo Site, and from then on each file you open/close will automatically be stored in the Temp Files folder as PDF's. The original document names aren't always stored, but you can rename later at your leasure. I found it best to create folders of each section and sub-section of the manual so that I could move (not copy) the PDF's from the Temp Files folder to the appropriate Section folder as each section completed. To make moving easier, the files in your Temp Files folder can be sorted by extension so that you're only selecting and moving the PDF's. Then start on the next section on the Toyota Techinfo Site. Repeat until you get everything. It took me around an hour to get everything using this method. Disclaimer: This post assumes that the user knows their way around the WinXP file system and where your user temp files are stored (usually C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\*.*) and how to safely search, move and delete files. Like I said, it sounds more complcated than it really is, but it will save time in the long run.

Originally Posted by Rishi

I tried your idea, but it does not work at this particular web site. Reason: many of the PDF documents have the same name and so they just overwrite the earlier downloads. I discovered it the hard way! I finally had to give a name to each document during download, or put them in different directories. After 10hrs I managed to get all ! Now that's worth $2500.

Originally Posted by p1michaud

I spent most of last night downloading as much as I could from the on-line FSMs. What a great source of information! Thanks for the pointing it out!
Cheers,
P

Originally Posted by Mohamed

Oh sweet I didn't know that available to the public, damn that is expensive though for membership. That TIS is an excellent online source, I have seen used only at the dealership, but boy it's awesome!!!