About FixMyKitchen

FixMyKitchen is a free, ad-supported reference library focused on one specific problem: finding the original instruction manual for the small kitchen appliance sitting on your counter, after the paper booklet has long since vanished.

The site indexes manuals from the Internet Archive's freely-redistributable manuals collection — the same archive used by university libraries and independent researchers — and organizes them around the categories home cooks actually search for: blenders, toasters, drip and pod coffee makers, espresso machines, air fryers, and stand mixers. Where the Internet Archive presents tens of millions of documents in one giant pile, FixMyKitchen exists to surface only the small subset that's relevant to a kitchen appliance owner trying to fix or operate a specific machine.

What we host

We do not host PDF files on our own infrastructure. Every download and "read online" link on this site points back to the canonical record on archive.org. This keeps the legal status of every manual unambiguous: if the Internet Archive has determined that a manual is freely redistributable, FixMyKitchen surfaces it; if not, it isn't in our index. We are not a piracy site, we are not bypassing any DRM, and we are not republishing copyrighted material on our own servers.

Each manual page on FixMyKitchen contributes its own original written context — a description of what's typically inside that class of manual, common questions about that appliance category, related models, and a short brand history — but the manual itself always lives on archive.org.

How we make money

FixMyKitchen is supported by display advertising. You'll see ad slots in the header, sidebar, in-content, and footer of most pages. We do not sell user data and we do not run any kind of paywall, account system, or "premium download" upsell. The ads pay for hosting and for the time it takes to keep the index fresh.

We do not accept payment from manufacturers in exchange for editorial coverage, and we do not remove brands from the index based on commercial pressure. If a brand wants their manuals removed because of a copyright dispute with the Internet Archive, the right place to file that is with the Internet Archive directly — once the file is removed upstream, it disappears from FixMyKitchen automatically on our next ingest.

Editorial principles