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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, Blue Book,
Camel 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, and bible; see also
rainbow series. Since about 1983 this tradition has gotten a
boost from the popular O'Reilly Associates line of technical books,
which usually feature some kind of exotic animal on the
cover.
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