 | Linux Pocket Guide by Daniel J. Barrett
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $5.00 Crash course in essential Linux (and Unix) shell commands. And yes, it fits in your pocket (which is where you'll want to keep it anyway).
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 | Linux in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly)) by Ellen Siever
Buy new: $26.97 / Used from: $22.71 Essential lexicon of Linux commands. Sure, there are man pages, but you might want to go analog every once in a while.
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 | Running Linux by Matthias Dalheimer
Buy new: $32.97 / Used from: $15.23 From installation to desktop to server, all in one book.
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 | Vi iMproved (VIM) (Landmark) by Steve Oualline
Buy new: $42.49 / Used from: $19.98 Learn the ways of vi, grasshopper. It is the One True Text Editor.
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 | Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man : Critical Edition by Marshall McLuhan
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $13.71 Don't just follow the White Rabbit, understand it.
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 | The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric S. Raymond
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.44 Eric Raymond: Yoda of Open Source.
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 | Unix, Second Edition (Visual QuickStart Guide) by Deborah S. Ray
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $0.01 Very basic introduction to Unix. Read in one sitting, revisit later.
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 | The New Hacker's Dictionary - 3rd Edition
Buy new: $23.40 / Used from: $1.72 If you still think a hacker is a pimple-faced teen that breaks into computer systems, you need this book. Yeah okay, you need it anyway.
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 | Neuromancer by William Gibson
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.32 The definition of Cyberpunk.
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 | Sneakers (Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $5.98 / Used from: $2.65 The best hacker film ever. Period.
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 | The Ultimate Matrix Collection (The Matrix/ The Matrix Reloaded/ The Matrix Revolutions/ The Animatrix)
Buy new: $30.99 / Used from: $21.99 You should already have this.
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 | PC Hardware in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition by Robert Thompson
Buy new: $29.16 / Used from: $12.00 It's not enough to know the software.
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 | Learning the UNIX Operating System, Fifth Edition by Jerry Peek
Buy new: $13.57 / Used from: $7.15 Read this after "Visual Quickstart"; a more in-depth study of Unix.
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 | Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools by Tara Calishain
Buy new: $18.21 / Used from: $0.01 Google is your (best) friend.
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 | Slashdot Hat - Chino
Show your geek pride. Revel in the ambiguity.
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 | No, I will not fix your computer
Buy new: $14.99 - $18.99 It's important to set boundaries.
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