For several years, I have been borrowing tech books from the Central Library, in downtown Buffalo.  Central, is a one-stop shop for all books technical.  A couple years ago, while there were lots of good books (culminating in CCIE potential)...the cutting-edge material was lacking.  No longer is that true. 

Some excellent subject to investigate include; Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, Visual Basic Databases 2008, ad infinitum.  The other day, I stumbled across Adobe LiveCycle on my computer at work.  I turned a PDF...into an entry form that collected the XML data from around our network.  It was definately cool.  So, I went to the Library to do some research and I asked for help.  They didn't have any books on  LiveCycle, but as a result of my request...it was ordered.  It is the Acrobate and LiveCycle Bible, 2009.

Great resource, good times.