Gentlemen,
Let us not forget how good the old Fokker F27 manuals were eh!
As for the CD Jetmech 757, if you have a problem with 2380 or whatever damaging the CD's, what do you think is happening to the other parts of the computer if your hands are that dirty?
CD's are easily updatable (electronically) by the manufacturer, and cost approx $1.00 per CD. Also the savings in postage over the old paper manuals must be enormous.
The only pity is that the older a/c manuals were not electronically produced originally, thus are still in that crappy film format, or paper. Most manufacturers will not update these into CD's due to the cost. Pity!
As for the Airbus manual system. Airbus produces most sections of the manual in French originally. (the stuff from England being the main difference). These are then translated into english, thus the difficulty with descriptive technical verse. French is not a technical language. Those of you familiar with the Airbus manuals can actually pick the different authoring between ATA chapters. It is that apparent. They are improving a little though.
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When all else fails, read the manual!