OK, I've paid my $29 bucks for the user manual, and then (silly, inattentive me

) went looking for the downloadable PDF. (Like, surely you wouldn't expend crushed trees smeared with ink when you could make a serial numbered PDF (i.e., can't open the PDF without your purchased key number and only on the "imprinted" device (like, the first computer the newly-hatched PDF sees will be its "mother" forever, and it will follow its mother right to the recycling heap at the end of Mommie's life-cycle)!).
So I discover that, indeed, this is a hard-copy manual

. Makes no sense to me, when you can protect PDFs from being passed around indiscriminately. (At least you can if I haven't misread/misinterpreted all of the enhancements Adobe has made to its ubiquitous PDF file structure in the free Reader & definitely UN-free Editor (Acrobat Pro) s/ware.
Or am I waaaay off-base in my thinking here?

(I just want to start using Audacity like a "pro" immediately on my major LP A2D2D project that's going to probably take me months--unless I can shorten the cycle by going A2D on the LPs at 45 rpm (about 35% faster than taking them in at 33.3333 rpm) and then dropping the pitch/speed back down to 33.3, LP speed, in Audacity--I'm hoping that I can do that, anyway.