Most books are containers for information. Manual is a container for its own creation. Conceived by Studio Darius Ou and Benson Chong, this project reimagines what a printed object can communicate by deploying XY-for-Z printing to produce the entire book, pages, spine, and raised lettering, in a single uninterrupted sequence. The result is less a traditional publication and more a material event frozen in time. Scattered throughout its pages, fragments of G-code transform the physical object into a kind of readable file, equal parts artifact and instruction manual. At a moment when digital reading has erased nearly all friction from the publishing experience, Manual offers a compelling counter-proposal: objects that arrive already narrating the story of their own becoming.