Quote Originally Posted by wickerprints
An interesting question is whether Canon will do the same for future body manuals. I think this is less likely because those booklets are sometimes carried around by their owners as reference guides--whereas I rarely if ever hear of people carrying around the manuals for their lenses.

I don't 'carry' any of them. But I have the pdf versions of the 7D and 5DII manuals stored on my iPhone for an on-the-go reference. [8-|]