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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>book titles</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="bonk-oif.html" title="bonk/oif"/><link rel="next" href="boot.html" title="boot"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">book titles</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bonk-oif.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="boot.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="book-titles"/><dt xmlns="" id="book-titles"><b>book titles</b></dt></dt><dd><p> There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important
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textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers
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or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are
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described in this lexicon under their own entries. See
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<a href="../A/Aluminum-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Aluminum Book</i></a>,
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<a href="../C/Camel-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Camel Book</i></a>, <a href="../C/Cinderella-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Cinderella Book</i></a>,
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<a href="../D/daemon-book.html"><i class="glossterm">daemon book</i></a>, <a href="../D/Dragon-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Dragon Book</i></a>,
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<a href="../O/Orange-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Orange Book</i></a>, <a href="../P/Purple-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Purple Book</i></a>,
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<a href="../W/Wizard-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Wizard Book</i></a>, and <a href="bible.html"><i class="glossterm">bible</i></a>;
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see also <a href="../R/rainbow-series.html"><i class="glossterm">rainbow series</i></a>. Since about 1993 this
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tradition has gotten a boost from the popular O'Reilly and Associates
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line of technical books, which usually feature some kind of exotic
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animal on the cover and are often called by the name of that animal.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="bonk-oif.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="boot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bonk/oif<69></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>boot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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