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I just looked at The Dalek Dictionary. I can see why that is invalid, it's an alphabetized list of Dalek-related concepts— It does not have a narrative. But I do think TARDIS Type 40 Instruction Manual is much more than this. Scrooge's description of a "nonlinear biography" works rather well— it's a description of the TARDIS's history arranged by components rather than chronological order, because it explains these components. And this history isn't just summaries of information we could have gathered by watching episodes— it explains what functions of the TARDIS were in use and how so during those events. From the beginning of the book, it basically says something along the lines of "this is an explanation of how Type 40 TT Capsules work that uses the history of a specific TARDIS to do so".