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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> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <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
textbooks and standards documents with the dominant color of their covers
or with some other conspicuous feature of the cover. Many of these are
described in this lexicon under their own entries. See
<a href="../A/Aluminum-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Aluminum Book</i></a>,
<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>,
<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>,
<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>,
<a href="../W/Wizard-Book.html"><i class="glossterm">Wizard Book</i></a>, and <a href="bible.html"><i class="glossterm">bible</i></a>;
see also <a href="../R/rainbow-series.html"><i class="glossterm">rainbow series</i></a>. Since about 1993 this
tradition has gotten a boost from the popular O'Reilly and Associates
line of technical books, which usually feature some kind of exotic
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> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="boot.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">bonk/oif </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> boot</td></tr></table></div></body></html>