Free Apple User Guides

Apple does not include much in the way of instructions in the box with any of their products. For both iPads and iPhones, the printed documentation is very slight. 

Here are links to free documents that you can read ine the iBooks app on your iPad, iPhone and your Mac if you have uptaded to Mac OS X 10.9.  

On iPad and iPhone, dowload iBooks:
iBooks App for iPad and iPhone

then click the links below to get your free user guides:

iPad User Guide 

iPhone User Guide

Unfortunately, there are currently no iBooks guides for Macs and MacBooks. Hopefully that will cahnge soon. Until then, here is what Apple offers (click Browse By Product if you don't see what you are looking for):

Apple – Support – Manuals