While talking about X11 being an old friend elsewhere here, I happened to remember The UNIX-HATERS Handbook and actually found a readable copy on the Internet Archive. My bed lecture for the next two days, I guess. 
Hint 1: It’s from 1994, and heavily outdated. Still something worth to read again, I reckon.
Hint 2: Download the PDF, unfortunately the auto-converted ebook is pure crap.
UNIX—The World’s First Computer Virus
Has it caught you yet? 
360 pages, nonfiction, 1994–all appealing things, and downloaded. Looks interesting.
the publisher (IDG books. still around?) has a mission statement at viii which I thought was unusual but cool.
Also there are three editors listed but no author…which is very unusual. But by xxviii they are referred to as ‘contributors.’
It’s unorthodox in approach which I appreciate. It’s inspired by a guy’s listserv.
Yep, I think it’s a piece of history, and unconventionally brought into existence, back then. But IDG was only 4 years old then. Still love that it was officially made freely available in 2003.
EDIT: Just found out that my beloved Foliate can actually read PDFs, too. Never tried before, since it typically offers a *.epub selection only.
For those of us on KDE, okular fits the bill quite nicely. pdfs, epub, and I have discovered recently that it can read markdown! And convert it to pdf via the print option. Much better quality than other solutions as well.
