I always get a Haynes or Clymer manual for my vehicles. They are much better for doing actual repairs and upgrades but the shop manual usually has better diagrams and tables.

We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.