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 thisdictionary 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.

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(1996-12-03)