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Where to get Honda Owner's Manuals, service manuals and other technical information
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Owner Manuals & other info

American Honda Techinfo:
Owner Manuals can be downloaded for free from American Honda's own Techinfo site:
https://techinfo.honda.com/rjanisis/logon.asp
You do NOT need to log in to access the Owner Manuals. Just click the link to the left.
Official training materials (and some equipment) can be had from the same site (for pay).

American Honda OwnerLink:
Warranty information, recalls and other information specific to your car may also be available free online from American Honda's Ownerlink site, but you have to register as a member first. It didn't work with Canadian VINs the last time I checked. I did manage to register, but using a fake VIN.
https://www.ahm-ownerlink.com/

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Workshop manuals

Helm, Inc.
The Ur of Honda shop manuals is Helms. This is the real thing, and worth every penny if you decide to do anything more than change your oil. These are NOT cheap.
http://www.helminc.com/

What is cheap are execrescences like Haynes and Chilton. If you must buy one of those, use it only to find out where your oil drain plug is, and maybe not even for that. Haynes and Chilton are notorious for omissions and errors, some of them serious.

EBSCOHost Research Databases:
http://search.ebscohost.com/
This is a wonderful site with tons of excellent info, everything from repair procedures to recalls and TSBs.
It's all free, and legal for personal, non-commercial use only.
You need to log in with the following information:

• Username: lib
• Password: access

Then choose Auto Repair Reference Center from the menu on the left.

Hondahookup:
http://www.hondahookup.com/manuals/
(you have to log in to obtain them).

Honda's British site:
http://www.honda.co.uk/car/owner/workshop.html
I find this site can be slow at times.

Spoonhonda:
http://spoonhonda.com

Carfiche.com
http://carfiche.com/

If you're patient, diligent, have a fast Internet connection and are savvy with P2P programs, there are some manuals and parts catalogs available via P2P. But I can't tell you which P2P program will find them for you, and that's an important part (hint: it's named after a horse-like animal). Of course, anything acquired over P2P has potential copyright issues, so experiment at your own risk...

A couple of sources for used manuals:
eBay  http://www.ebay.com
Hemmings Motor News  http://www.hemmings.com/classifieds/bookslitforsale/

Also, your local library will often have a good selection of manuals that you can copy pages from, so it's worth phoning them if nothing else is available.