Is there anything like a "sacred bible" for newfags who want to learn all things about the inside of cars?

Is there anything like a "sacred bible" for newfags who want to learn all things about the inside of cars?

Like, something to help out learning from the most basic stuff to more advance things, from components, to engines, maintenance, etc.

What would you guys recommend to do to someone willing to put the hours into it? The time for me to be able to afford my first car is coming closer and I have suddenly realised that I really want to get to know all the proper shit in depth, and if money allows in the future, even to be able to be quite handy with doing whatever modifications or repairs are possible from my garage (by mods I'm not talking about ricing my car up btw).

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It's called the service manual for your model of car.

I downloaded a few gigs worth of books and guides with Bitlord a few months ago. It's a ton of stuff ranging from engine rebuilding manuals to tuning guides.

The factory service manual for my car is pretty good stuff. But it assumes a certain amount of background knowledge for more advanced jobs, since it's just a step by step for what to do and the specs you'd want to know, not a how things work or why things are the way they are.

That being said, it's a good way to find out what to ask the internet about or read threads about on a decent relevant car form.

There's no one book that's a "sacred bible" because there's lots of different cars. There plenty of resources out there for every kind of car, though.
One of my favorites is "How to keep your Volkswagen Alive" by John Muir.
Dude was a nuclear submarine engineer who went native in the 60s, moved to the Baja and started fixing VWs out of an adobe garage.
He wrote a plain english service manual for every model of air cooled VW, including hand illustrated exploded views of the entire car.

I also downloaded a video series called Boxwrench Engine Rebuilding. I havent watched it, but it seems really thorough

By the book of factory assembly instructions for your car, tear it apart, put it back together again

Factory manuals are a good place to start, Chilton and Haynes manuals can offer a lot more info but they're still kind of written with professional servicing in mind. Most popular cars have a layman's guide available from some publisher.
The internet can be a good source of info as long as you vet and verify against reliable sources. Any idiot can present himself as a shadetree mechanic.
Speaking of, there actually was a show called Shadetree Mechanic that was co-produced by TNN and PBS. It got the axe when TNN became Spike TV, but it was basically an automotive version of "This Old House"

I got a whole lot of out just grabbing tools and Haynes manual for my very first shitbox and digging in. I forgot where I learned basic theory of operation stuff, but you could probably do alright just surfing wikipedia for a while to learn how different styles of valve trains work, why a diesel is different from gas, how the distributor manages to make spark plugs fire, and general background knowledge like that.

But what really was interesting to me was reading threads about people doing their own modifications or magazine articles written by seasoned tuners and people telling stories of their racing days etc.

I really liked the haynes sport compact performance when I first started learning about cars.

It's beginner level knowledge, and from 2003 so most of the brands and computer stuff are outdated, but otherwise it has some good information if you're a car noob.