Books Introduction to Information Retrieval, Manning, Raghavan & Schütze, 2007 Managing Gigabytes [KevinBurton] I can vouch for M.G. as I have a copy and it's a GREAT book. Should be called Managing Terabytes. Its not light reading by any means and you'll probably have to sit down with each chapter for a bit. ([DavidSpencer] – I agree, great thorough book, must have) Modern Information Retrieval,