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There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally tagging important textbooks
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and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers or with some
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other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are described in this
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lexicon under their own entries. See Aluminum Book , Camel Book , Cinderella
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Book , daemon book , Dragon Book , Orange Book , Purple Book , Wizard Book ,
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and bible ; see also rainbow series. Since about 1993 this tradition has
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gotten a boost from the popular O'Reilly and Associates line of technical
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books, which usually feature some kind of exotic animal on the cover and are
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often called by the name of that animal.
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