If I knew of a book that explained my job I’d read it myself.
Ditto!
As a librarian, this question tickles me.
Got any good books on librarian science?
“bullshit jobs” by David Graeber
Excel for Dummies 2023
The Phoenix Project
This is the book I had in mind when I created this thread. :)
I’m sure this is unpopular, but I hate that book with Mrs.White-level hatred.
I’m so glad there are people like you who do things like this so I don’t have to.
Ha, this was going to be my answer as well
Microchip Fabrication by van Zant. Specifically chapters 8 and 10 discussing photolithography. Might be different chapters in current version.
“It” -Stephen King
Clown? Boat builder? Serial killer?
Orgy host.
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Upgrade by Blake Crouch
Textbooks
Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton!
Is there a book for The Big Lebowski? 🤔
It actually is a very loose adaptation/inspired by the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep.
So kind of?
Makers by Cory Doctorow
I’m a supervisor in a machine and welding shop so I would pick Carl Vernon’s " Surrounded By Morons Make the Most of it. "
The US Federal code of regulations. Im a US customs broker. At 50 titles and sometimes 100s of pages per title if not thousands, it’d be quite the read in one go!
Edit: I just checked, it changes pretty regularly, usually stands somewhere around 90 thousand pages. The specific code on customs brokers is title 19 part 111. But really the whole thing is specific to my job in one way or another. I’ve never actually read the entire thing personally as it’s practically impossible. I look up whatever I need to as needed.
Kanski’s clinical ophthalmology; https://shop.elsevier.com/books/kanskis-clinical-ophthalmology/salmon/978-0-7020-7711-1