While I like the venerable look they have, those books aren't what you use daily to document yourself on how your machine works. I was speaking about those manpages we use when we don't know what the letters are for in the itemized output of rsync, for instance.
> While I like the venerable look they have, those books aren't what you use daily to document yourself on how your machine works.
But you can create pretty hard-copy versions of the manpages on your system with groff, the same way these books were created with troff (which groff is a replacement for.)
