I just wanted to make a couple of suggestions/crits before you get too deep into it to change:
1. Just to echo what jmarshall has already said about the "preparing your movies and TV shows" section (i.e. keep it to a minimum). Much of what's already there seems like more advanced information. I think you should just state the basic folder structure, and file naming conventions which allow the scapers to do the best they can. Then you can refer to a later page number detailing all the stuff about folder.jpg, season.tbn etc etc.
On the point of file naming conventions, I don't know if you had plans to expand this but this looks to be lacking at the moment. The information about putting the year with your film's name seemed a bit buried (Page 17), and although I only skimmed through, I couldn't see any information on naming TV episodes (e.g. s01e04). As an example a nice succinct summary of naming conventions / preparing your media was done within this article on Lifehacker.com.
2. It may be helpful to get the user more familiar with using the keyboard as the input device by not detailing instructions for mouse as well. I know the mouse generally works for what you've detailed so far, but it does have shortcomings, and is not the best way of navigating/using XBMC in general. Being familiar with the button inputs of the keyboard would also make migrating to a remote a bit more comfortable.
An added bonus of only writing about keyboard input is that it creates less work for you by making sure you only have to write about one input rather than two every time. Having less text would also make the guide clearer by creating less text "clutter" in the body of the text.
Also on this point: at the bottom of page 16 there's an instruction which only refers to mouse input - change this to "select it" rather than "click it with your mouse" to make it universally applicable.
Also related: It may be helpful to have something like the XBMC keyboard cheat sheet in a reference section at the back of the booklet.
3. On the subject of media managers: You've written a nice little sentence about what they do, but it might also be a good idea if you could link to a quickstart guide (if these exist) for each manager. The best way of doing this is probably to say that there's a link / address for these guides in a reference section at the back, rather than sticking the addresses in the body of the text. I don't use a media manager, not because I think it's a bad idea, but because I go to look it up and there's a thread with 5,500 posts on it! not very user friendly if I just want to know how to use it. Admittedly there is a link to a wiki in the first page of the thread I'm talking about (Ember), but I don't know how good it is 'cos the site is down. Many of the other managers don't seem to have any kind of guide, and not having a guide makes it intimidating to the new user. With that in mind, you might want to ask the developers to write a quickstart guide, or ask them to post on their thread to ask for one of their users to do it so you can link to it. As I say I don't use one, and haven't tried. It might be astonishingly intuative and require no help whatsoever, but I doubt it, so if you can point the reader in the direction of a guide that'd be most helpful.
4. Quick typo at the bottom of page 23 "As some of you might now" *know
I hope that's helpful. You might agree or disagree with them but they're just suggestions!
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