Reddit reviews The Mother of All Windows 98 Books

Haha. I'd agree except he doesn't really realize it. I think part of it is that he doesn't really have a good understanding of how to wade through forums, as well as his tendency to have gone for more thorough information on stuff rather than specific issues. He could read a modern version of this and be useful, or he can help track down drivers that will work with a laptop that isn't meant for a specific OS, but if he wants to know what kind of extension to download or has some kind of non-obvious error then he goes into 'help me' mode.