For books, I'd also recommend "Learning the vi Editor" (O'Reilly).
I made these notes some time ago:
http://www.slackware.com/~r1w1s1/nvi.html
And I also converted the old nvi FAQ to plain text:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/nvi-faq.txt
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