Reddit mentions of The Lee-Enfield: A Century of Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield Rifled and Carbines by Ian D. Skennerton (2007-08-01)

If you have $80-$100 kicking around and want the ultimate reference/reading material for pooping, pick up Skennerton's Lee-Enfield text. 600 pages of not-that-dense technical and historical info, and it's very well-illustrated.

...Book!

Inspired by a post from /u/NotHipsterCollector (http://www.reddit.com/r/guns/comments/2nj6px/oops_another_enfield/cmejd7b) to seek out my own Lee-Enfield rifle this year as well as a recommendation by the illustrious/illustrative /u/othais for a particular (out-of-print) book that I couldn't find for under $200 ("The Lee-Enfield Story" by Ian Skennerton), I found another, newer title by the same author, "The Lee-Enfield: A Century of Lee-Metford and Lee-Enfield Rifles and Carbines" which is supposed to include the title Othais originally recommended plus an additional inclusion of another book into a single, compendious volume. If you have no particular interest in Lee-Enfield rifles, but have even a marginal interest in 20th century history and guns, you'd probably love this book.

Edit: For anyone seriously interested in this book, I'd be happy to take a few more pics and post (such as contents, index). Books, guns, whisky. God, I lov'em.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lee-Enfield-Centuary-Lee-Metford-Carbines/dp/0949749826/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top

You can know just about everything there is to know about Enfields for only $80.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0949749826/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1499630201&sr=8-1&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&keywords=the+lee+enfield+skennerton&dpPl=1&dpID=41%2B1h4QWT8L&ref=plSrch