The guidebook is gargantuan. Seriously. It's giant. I've threatened to throw it at my brother and he ran out of the room very, very quickly. People stare at it for a good five minutes when my parents force me to let them into my room.
And I use the guidebook mainly for the stickers and the plot (the battle insets are not helpful AT ALL), but go through Marriland's YouTube walkthrough for three reasons: one, because I like narration (his is the only walkthrough that consistently does it), two because I can reread things that I may have missed the first time around, and three because the guidebook is useless for battling and I don't feel like reading stuff every time I get stumped on beating Fantina's Mismagius. [is a failure]
"P-O-K-accent-E Balls!"