book titles

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book titles - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  book titles
  
     <publication> There is a tradition in hackerdom of informally
     tagging important textbooks and standards documents with the
     dominant colour of their covers or with some other conspicuous
     feature of the cover.  Many of these are described in this dictionary
      under their own entries.  See Aluminum Book,
     Blue Book, Cinderella Book, Devil Book, Dragon Book,
     Green Book, Orange Book, Pink-Shirt Book, Purple Book,
     Red Book, Silver Book, White Book, Wizard Book,
     Yellow Book, bible, rainbow series.
  
     [Jargon File]
  
     (1996-12-03)
  

book titles - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  book titles
  
  
     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
     Aluminum Book, Camel Book, Cinderella Book, daemon book,
     Dragon Book, Orange Book, Purple Book, Wizard Book, and
     bible; see also rainbow series. 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.