 | A Beginner's Guide to Second Life version 1.1 by v3image
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $13.00 This Guide was written for the Newbie. If you are looking for tips and hints, exercises, and instructional information, then this guide is for you.
Need the beginner's guide today...then look for the eBook @ www.ArcheBooks.com
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 | Second Life: The Official Guide by Michael Rymaszewski
Buy new: $20.36 / Used from: $0.14 It looks like the "official" guide is scheduled to release another edition of this book later in the year. Looking forward to seeing what might be new and different. Hopefully some of the reviewers' comments were taken into consideration. Still a good guide to read for an overview.
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 | The Unofficial Tourists' Guide to Second Life by Paul Carr
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $1.92 A good "pocket" touring guide that describes some of the popular and touristy places within second life. As always, locations in Second Life constantly change so if the sim coordinates are wrong, you will have to use the "Search" feature in SL. This book at least gives you an idea of types of places to look for to help you in your Search.
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 | Designing Your Second Life by Rebecca Tapley
Buy new: $21.89 / Used from: $16.90 This reminds me of when I played "dress up" with my barbies. Great ideas for setting up "house" and helping new residents make a quick fashion statement.
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 | Designing Virtual Worlds (New Riders Games) by Richard Bartle
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $21.44 When you are ready for getting really serious about designing in the virtual environment, this is a good big picture read.
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 | Creating Your World: The Official Guide to Advanced Content Creation for Second Life by Aimee Weber
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $20.73 Note: Co-Author Catherine Winters is no longer listed and 2 new authors were just substituted...???? NOT RELEASED YET.
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 | Second Life: A Guide to Your Virtual World by Brian A. White
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $22.08 NOT RELEASED YET--Watching--check back with us later for a review.
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 | Play Money: Or, How I Quit My Day Job and Made Millions Trading Virtual Loot by Julian Dibbell
Buy new: $17.52 / Used from: $0.24 When you are ready to learn some of the inside tricks offered to make money this is an interesting read. May be too philosophical for some.(now i am confused...a new paperback edition is coming out, new cover, but the inside looks the same????:) Stay tuned.
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 | How to Do Everything with Second Life® (How to Do Everything) by Richard Mansfield
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $9.00 NOT RELEASED YET---They had a Cover Jacket change-I liked the first one better. But hey, it's early yet.
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 | The Second Life Herald: The Virtual Tabloid that Witnessed the Dawn of the Metaverse by Peter Ludlow
Buy new: $21.86 / Used from: $8.22 Definitely for the tabloid lover in you.
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 | Alter Ego: Avatars and their Creators by Robbie Cooper
Buy new: $19.64 / Used from: $1.47 JUST RELEASED---stay tuned.
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 | The Entrepreneur's Guide to Second Life: Making Money in the Metaverse by Daniel Terdiman
Buy new: $19.79 / Used from: $1.36 NOT RELEASED YET--Watching--check back with us later for a review.
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 | Second Life For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) by Sarah Robbins
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $3.49 Yet another "Dummies" Guide -- Trivia Question for the Day: How many Dummies Guide Titles are there? a)1 million; b)2 million; or c)5 million?
So for all you Dummies...oops...Dummies Aficionados out there...stay tuned for this entry.
Got to love it.
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 | Scripting Recipes for Second Life by Jeff Heaton
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $17.99 Recipe review to come. Scripting fascinates me, so I am hoping this one will provide some lessons on "how to" and not just free code. But then others might be looking for something different then what is important to me:)
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 | Second Life In-World Travel Guide (In World Travel Guide) by Sean Percival
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $12.49 Another new Second Life book coming. It's due to be released December 2007. I am concerned that travel locations captured today will be out of date before printing.
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 | How to Make Real Money in Second Life: Boost Your Business, Market Your Services, and Sell Your Products in the World's Hottest Virtual Community (How to Make . . .) by Robert Freedman
Buy new: $14.93 / Used from: $9.91 Yet another Money making book for second life. Curious to see how much he made himself. Stay tuned.
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 | Introduction to Textures, Animation Audio and Sculpting in Second Life by Jeff Heaton
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $23.44 Yet again another sl book. This is now book 2 for Jeff Heaton....in 3 months.....Published by ??? himself....Pretty coool idea...but why make us buy 2 books??? together $40+ ouch and this one has only 100 pages.
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 | The Making of Second Life: Notes from the New World by Wagner James Au
Buy new: $18.43 / Used from: $8.74 Not sure if this is instructional or just informational......stay tuned?????
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 | Second Life: a documentary
Buy new: $9.95 An interesting approach that could be useful! We need ways to explain what SL is all about.
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 | Introduction to Linden Scripting Language for Second Life by Jeff Heaton
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $29.63 How is this different then Jeff's book on Scripting???? HELP I am lost in the nuances of Jeff Heaton (and this is published AFTER "Scripting Receipes") Now I am REALLY confused :)
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 | I, Avatar: The Culture and Consequences of Having a Second Life (New Riders) by Mark Stephen Meadows
Buy new: $23.09 / Used from: $20.64 Hmmmmm...let's take a look into the virtual mirror of life (or second Life)
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 | Coming of Age in Second Life: An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human by Tom Boellstorff
Buy new: $23.96 / Used from: $29.99 Wondering about our place in second life history?
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 | Scripting Your World: The Official Guide to Second Life Scripting by Dana Moore
Buy new: $26.39 / Used from: $19.99 This looks like we may finally have something more advanced for the rest of us.
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 | The Virtual Librarian: A Tale of Alternative Realities by Ted Rockwell
Buy new: $22.95 / Used from: $22.85 A "self published" book. I love entrepreneurs. You don't have to have the big bucks to get noticed anymore!
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