Geek Books as Holiday Gifts

Sybelius writes "Wired News is running a story that recommends a half dozen good books as holiday gifts. It's a much more inspired list than the one recently offered by Amazon. According to the reviewer, the books chosen are ones that 'any techno-loving, systems-tinkering, hardware-hacking person would love, but that even those who can't program the clock on their VCR will find quite readable.' Do Slashdot readers have any other recommendations for titles that fit this requirement?"

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Code

[IceFox]

I recently picked up "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" by Charles Petzold amazon link. It was a very enjoyable read that tells the history of computers came to be. Not the last 20 years history, but most of the book is from 1600-1960's with a little bit out the modern computer. Very enjoyable read. Inspired me to make my own relays out of wire and a two bit adder. :)

-Benjamin Meyer

I'd like to get....

[elid]

Twisty Little Passages by Nick Montfort Just a Geek by Wil Wheaton