Editing Category:Apple Documentation (section)

== Owner-level books and general references ==

The four editions of '''''The Macintosh Bible''''' &mdash;
'''[[The Macintosh Bible 1st edition 1986|1st (1986, 435 pp)]]''' &middot;
'''[[The Macintosh Bible 2nd edition 1989|2nd (1988&ndash;89, 771 pp)]]''' &middot;
'''[[The Macintosh Bible 3rd Edition 1991|3rd (1991, 1,126 pp)]]''' &middot;
'''[[The Macintosh Bible 4th edition 1992|4th (1987&ndash;92, 1,262 pp)]]''' &mdash; and:

* '''[[The Apple Macintosh Primer 1984]]''' (Sadler / DATAMOST, Reston, 1984, 113 pp) &middot; '''[[Presenting the Macintosh 1984]]''' (Miller and Myers, dilithium Press, 1984, 125 pp)
* '''[[The Apple Macintosh Book Second Edition 1985|The Apple Macintosh Book, 2nd ed.]]''' (Cary Lu, Microsoft Press, 1985, 422 pp) and '''[[The Apple Macintosh Book 3rd edition 1988|3rd ed.]]''' (Lu with Chu, 1988, 395 pp)
* '''[[Under the Apple 1987]]''' (Bornstein, 1987, 363 pp, on desk accessories) &middot; '''[[The Color Mac 1992]]''' (Miller and Zaucha, Hayden, 1992, 333 pp) &middot; '''[[The Tao of AppleScript 1993]]''' (Schneider for BMUG, Hayden, 1993, 311 pp)
* '''[[The PowerPC Macintosh Book 1994]]''' (Somogyi, Addison-Wesley, 1994, 241 pp) &middot; '''[[The Power Mac Book 1995]]''' (Pronk, Coriolis, 1995, 411 pp)
* '''[[The Great Macintosh Easter Egg Hunt 1998]]''' &mdash; David Pogue, Berkley Books, 1998, 140 pp. A catalogue of hidden messages and jokes in Apple hardware and software, '''expressly unauthorised by Apple''' in its own copyright page. Nothing serviceable in it

'''None of the books in this last group is a repair source.''' They carry no schematic, no parts list
and no component value, and no figure on this wiki should be cited from any of them. They are useful
for establishing what a machine shipped with and how it was meant to behave.