DEFINITELY Dead Tree Books (Score 1)

Paper books are a necessity. Random access, long life, no power required, and robust (a book with a bullet hole through it is still a book; a computer with a bullet hole through it is a doorstop). I find I need books which describe how to fix real-world problems, but aren't Dummies-level, for example "How to use an OpenGL rendering context inside an MFC GUI". Most of my personal library centers around cross-platform standards and APIs, especially for GUI development. I don't think that's entirely clear, but that's the best I can do before coffee. -B